morning downpours. the messy weather slowing down theng morniommute even stranding a driver in high water. we have a look at conditions now. ars of c we have that rain that aaron was just talking about rolling through the area right now just a few isolatedms stnd showers out there. could we have any more for then afternoon? we'll talk about that and time them c outoming up. and the numbers are ng.r 15 violent crimes in d.c. this . weeke at least 22 victims. the latest overnight leads toon dead. clues police are working with to get dangerous suspects off the

stoeets. >> anncer: "news4 midday" starts now. good morning, evcoybody. me to "news4 midday." i'm aaron gilchrist. we begin with morning with the weather. heavy rain during the height of theni mor rush hour caused problems all over the region. take a look at pictures of montgomery counted firefightersg safely rescui a driver who was caught in high water. this is on norbeck road. the rain moved out ofere pretty quickly. ngople in dayton, ohio, dealt with much stro storms overnight and serious damage. a series of tornados destroyed d homes a knocked out power to thousands. at least seven people werenj iured and an 81-year-old man was killed. there was so much debri the ohio department of transportation hade to us snowplows to remove it from interstate 75. let's check in with meteorologist laur ricketts. we watched the storms out there and saw what rolled through here th morning. are we in the clear. >> we are in the clear right now. and that sde system that rol through ohio just rolled through

here. we didn't get the severe weather out of it. we did have some severe thunderstorm warnings off to the eastern shore but, boy, do we see a lot of rain and thunder ke probably woou up overnight. we're left with cloud cover right now but we are getting sunshine in spots. also getting a few showers in spots. north a baltimore,ew isolated showers through southern maryland but we're drying out a you could see the cloud cover with patchy sunshine out to the west. widen out the view and again that system came crawling through the area after about 5:00, 6:00 a.m. and again left us with the flooding in some spots. definitely still ponding on the roadway. as you make your way out of the door later on this afternoon, 75 degrees. now look at this. ear temperature as we h through the noon hour, we'll start to see pops of sunshine. if you are not seeing it yet, just wait. you'll see them and that w temperatureill go straight on up. and in fa, we're in the lower 90s but again we hav some storms.

this afternoon through this evening. we'll let you know for who coming up. >> lauryn, thank you. new overnight, d.c. police are searching for the person who shotenwo m in southeast. 36-year-old william boik kin of dist heights, maryland, and this is in the 2600 block of bernie place southeast a few blocks from the berry farm recreational center and d.c. police say that is where four men and a boy were injured during a shooting last afternoon. this is part of a violent memorial day weekend. this is justin finch. >> reporter: to another scene hours before and just up the street from that bernie place shooting. this is a shootin near the berry farm rec center off the 1200 block of sumner road where five people were shot and four men and one boy and their injuries nonlife-threatening and police looking into that case, a silver or gray nissan sedan that

eould be related. at this time policave not said if that shooting had is any any linked to that bernie place shooting but we'll bring you more details as we get them on air and and our nbc washington app. i'm justin finch, nbc4. and difficult return to school for some students in southeast d.c. somerset prop honor student lori scole was shot and kil outside of a road. he was just 15 years old.r his moke with us over the weekend. >> well, i'm still thinking he may walk through that door if i could just hold him one more time. >> somerset prep has grief counsellors and grief counsel lors on hand. w 22 peopleere shot across the district this weekend at a dozec

differeions. now we turn to the commute that will take some getting used to. with metro summer shutdown in effect for part of northern virgin, all of the metro rail stations south of reagan national airport on the blue and yellow lines will be closed until september. all so crews could do platform repair. aimee cho is live at the frank conia station with how things are going so far. amy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. if y tried to take the metro at fank conia springfield, no trands here anstead you take a subtle bus back there and they are starting to pull up now. a lot of folks making massive changes to the mornin routine. a new normal long part of the sue and yellow lines. every stationth of reagan national airpo now shut down. during rush hour you'll likely see long lines waiting to board buses. some riders telling us they

found the buss signs confuing. >> not good. they need directions on how to exit down thee steps to com out tocatch the shuttle. >> reporter: metro said they needed to make t closure to repair the platforms which are old and falling apart. >> repairs are unfortunately overdue as you maybe saw some of the platforms you could pull them away with your hand. it is inconvenient but it is needed. >> reporter: for folks out of town, the first impression of the system. >> we planned on our vacation to being able se the metro and now doing something different. so we're just going with the plan b. or plan c. >> there are several options for your plan b. or c. take the alexandria dash bus anw er taxis to go into the city nd many riders are used to metro closures by now. >> this is regular stuff. so we get to go to work and that s a blessing.

>> reporter: and the clures will last until sunday, september 8th. we posted a list of your options to get around in the nbc washington app, just search metro. aaron. >> aimee cho live for us. thank you. lot of drivers in maryland had to find alternate route this is morning, too. take a look at this. chopper4 showing us the reason why.is thas on i-95 south after the icc. about 4:00 this morning a lumber truck crossed overt from northbound side and this accident shut down all southbound lanes in that area for hours causing myles of back-ups. crews still have to remove the tractor-trailer today but right now the closures are gone. and right now hundredsf kids are competing in the scripps national spelling bee preliminaries out at national harbor. 565 spellers from 7 to 15 will compete for the grand prize of $50,000. this is the lprgest grou ever to compete. the finals are scheduledo start on thursday. and maybe a game of chance

is more your idea of fun. if so the mega-millions jackpot is inching closer to a half a s billion domark. tonight's prize $418 million and as you know, if nobody wins, it continues tow.gro president trump is on his way home and facing heat. the his take on north korea and new missile tests. the strong reactionrom one presidential candidatepl us beaten up from the backseat. we have disturbing new video of a de share driver being attacke what he said abouteturning to what he said abouteturning to r ♪

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with the knives. officials say the man killed two and injured 16 before killing himself. his identity and motive are not being released at this time. prerdent trump offeed his condolences the stabbing victim families while touri a japanese navy ship. right now the president is on ck the way ba to washington after stirring upsome controversy in japan with his remarked on north korea andoe biden. tracie potts has the latestrom capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump speaking to u.s. troops overnight before leaving japage >> toer you're advancing freedom on the high seas, shielding our nation fromou danger weapons -- >> reporter: after he disagreed with japan and his own national security advisern whether north korea missile tests violate international security agreements. >> i view it differently. i view it as a man, perhaps he wants to get attention, and perhaps n. ho knows. >> reporter: the president emphasized our u tide downrade balance with japan and catching

heat back home for siding with north korea's leade criticizing presidential rivalj biden. >> joe biden was a disaster. >> reporter: republican adam kinsinger said this is just wrong. >> he is a dictator and joe biden served this country honorably. >> reporter: and president trump gave william barr the okay to declassiftop secret information. >> it is dangerous to allow the president to have theunilateral thority to declassify things. >> reporter: barr is looking into how the russia investigation started. the president empowered him to get information from 15 agencies, including the cia. the president wants those agencies to tell the attorney general everything they know. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. and late this morning, the supreme court issued a decisions on a couple of indiana abortion laws. the court upheldow a ler court ruling that required providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in

the same way as human rmains. the ruling was a 7-2 split with badr ginsburg and sotomayo dissenting and it doesn't involve limited on a woman's right to abortion. n e justices will not rule on a broader provisio revent a woman from having an abortion based on genter and race or eligiblibility. conservative lawma in the states hope the supreme court will take up roe v. wade and ultimately overturn it. today the court also it announced ill not take up a ra case about tnsgender students and school bathrooms. this challenges a pstnsylvania school dict policy that allows transgenderu stents to use bathrooms and lockero rs that correspond exth their sual identity and so the school polcy will stand. 16 years after pleading ilty to a kidnapping, a ma herndon n returned to court on friday. scott tyree is days away from

full release from custody but his victim is unhappy with where he is expected to live. scottor macfarlane has on a story first reported by the nbc4 i-team. >> scott admitted traveling from his townhouse in herndon to hrg to abduct and sexual abuse then 13-year-old alicia kosha. he served his time in the federal plerve in north carolina and has been transferred to a al f way house for the f weeks before the full release. but the half way house and his likely future home are in pittsburgh. minutes from alicia's family. >> this is too cle to home. the most literal sense, this is all too close to home. >> reporter: she is now married and living outside of d nnsylvania was never aler about the release or that he was expected to live in pittsburgh until nbc4 learned about it and reached out to her for comment. >> we did not -- we didn't know. and we wouldn't -- maybe we wouldn't have known at all until you told us. >> reporter: she'll ask a judge

friday to find a different location in which to release tyree. and his lawyers have responded to her protest saying tyree is already prohibited from contacting her or hur family and will be electitnically monored and suggest to a curfew. t andy have agreed to release him. in pennsylvania she is arguing tyree has no roots or family in pittsburgh. the herndon man pleaded guilty to the crime in 2003. he was captured after a national fbi manhunt led to his townhouse in herndon. scott macfarlane, nbc4. right now police intynew yok ciare looking for a man carht on camera butally beating his lyft driver. this happened in the middle of . it is a bit graphic. take a look. >> you [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> now this started as a normal fare for eduardo. yoge could see the passenrs in the backseat there. the man appears to be sick and at one point lying in theck baat and moaning. later he took off his shirt and

things escalated when he demanded the driver go faster and weave through traffic. goinguse me, man, if your to be disrespectful i'll just pull over right now. >> [ bleep ]. >> wow, once he was able to stop the car. the man and woman got out and e man hit the driver again and then took off running. he was not seri sly hurt here but he said now he's not sure if he'll ever drive for lyft again. over th-last tech - decade, 60 peop have died in crashes on indian head highway, making it one of the dangerous roads in the region if not i the country. now much-needed safety improvements are rolling in. tracee wilkins spoke with an activist who helped bring the change. >> there is only 13 miles of oadway in prince george's county but it is this deadly

les from the beltway. >> reporter: reveren doctor robert screen helps people through the hardesttimes along route 210. >> i've run into accidents pulling out my vest and going as a clergy member toan accident scene. >> reporter: when he's n working on the highway, he's at the hospital hoping to comforti injured and those who have lost loved ones to this road. >> this is the most dangerous areaor traffic fatalities in the state of maryland. >> reporter: he's lived here more than 40 years and remembers ch fatal crash along 210. with photographic detail. like the crash at this very spot in 2008e >> therre eight people that were killed. anr one particula accident. >> reporter: due to drag racing and the beginning avenue naey tr. >> well since that time, we've had two additional accidents that occurred about 50 yards from this spot in the intersection of pine rdrive. >>orter: and then the three children who were killed on new year's eve of last year. just a few miles north of here.

>> all of them are bad. but when you have childrenvewho ha't even gotten a start in life to lose them and all in one ncident, that was terrible. >> reporter: for 14 years screen has worked with neighbors to make this road safer and this saturday th change is coming with three roving speed cameras that will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, moving fromo location to cation along 210. the first of the kind made possible through state solution. >> it has been a long trek but we're doing the best we can to change behavior. >> reporter: and i'm tracee wilkins, nbc4. right now maryland is among the 26 states in the country dealing with the measles e outbreak. test numbers are from the centers for disease control and showing there are 940 cases nationwide. the vast majority in new york. the empire state has nearly 800. at this time measles has not spread to virginia or d.c. most patients are children who have not been vaccinated.

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back now with thase re weather in the midwest. multiple tornados touched down in o indiana andhio overnight. and this morning we are seeing widespread damage a power outages in dayton, o ohio,ch debris littered one intersection, snowplows had to be brought in to clear a path for emergency vehicles.rr nbc's ke sanders and daniel grossman had team coverage from ohio and oklahoma. >> reporter: tornado on th ground. hundreds of thousands of people getting a terrifying wake-up cal overnit in ohio. multiple tornados touching down

sending residents racing for cover. >> you can never prepare fo something like this. >> destroyed house -- >> reporter: the path of destruction stretching acrossyt da and the western part of the state. homes turned inside out. trees ripped from the ground. power poles snapped. an elementary school in daytona thwould have been packed with children this morning was destroyed. there have been nearly 500 tornados reported across the country inthe last 30 days. overnight dayton t becominghe second major city to be hit in the last week. following a destructive twister in jefferson city, missouri. >> reporter: i'm kerry sanders in tulsa. this is what so manyoads in oklahoma look like. flooded. the arkansas river continues to rise and will reach historic levels in the next 24 hours. in tulsa, a race against time and rapidly risi waters and some evacuaties sking refugee

in shelters. >> i thought i would drown. >> reporter: the army corp of engineers trying to release water, the oklahoma national guard busy sandbgging levees built during world war ii. this morning as floodwaters se, officials calculate 170 homes have been damaged like this one and homeowners are only now discovering that if they didn't have federal floo insurance, they are not covered. some residents leaving town. his man staying behind, armed in an attempt to ward off looters. >> don't come down here stealing. i ain't got much but what i got i intend to keep. >> reporter: sandbags surrounding the oklahoma aquarium and the greatest worry of a loss of power could kill the largest collection of bull sharks in the world. in the forecast of the coming days, more rain, and the potential for more tornados. kerry sanders, nbc news, tulsa county, oklahoma. such a rough couple ofeeks in the center of the count.

>> oh, my gosh. >> this tornado w saw th rolled -- that weather system rolled into our area overnight and brought some -- it doesn't seem that strong. >> itmoasn't. st of the time you were on ai but the rain, it was torrential downpours but we didn't get the severe weather. clearly we didn't have tornados or anything like that or severe thunderstorm warnings. we did have one over the key -- the chesapeake bay bridge ju over the eastern shore. that is where we saw it. but look at this. 10:15 last night entering ohio.n and atch what happens. that thing just rolled right into our area. as we went through the overnight hours. look at this. e i'm justry time i do midday, my maps just do not like me. because i'm going to back this up for you. and i want to show you where that rain was. so, again, it continued to roll through here. and now of course it is not going to do that. i'll showou in ten minutes. but that same system that rolled through ohio will roll through here during the overnight hours

ansnow it i right here. but i'll show that you radar loop coming up because it was a massive line of storms andt real really weakened by the time it got here. just showers here and there. nothing crazy. this is north of the baltimore area right now and you could see they are coming through really about dunn dock area and then a few isolated sprinkles down in the d.c. area. but a lot of that is just debris. so here is your weather questions. do we have any severe weather for later on this afternoon throughout the eveng. isolated chances and mainly that is north of d.c. if you are closer to pennsylvania, you're going to have a slightly better chance but the farther south to the district, that chance will lessen a little bit. afternoon sunshine out there now. if you are n seeing sunshine yet, wait a little bit and we'll see sunshine this afternoon. keep an eye on the sky if you had the kids at the school. few chances of rain tomorrow and thursday and then small

chances into the weekend. the weekend is not going to be a washout any stretch of the imagination. so not looking too bad into the weekend. current temperatures right now, heir act otten together yet but we are getting sunshine through the central shenandoah valley, through the est virginia area and petersburg and those temperatures have come up into the 80s. give us a little bit andive that sunshine time. that temperature willop out around 90 degrees this afternoon. so again, we're trying to get a few storms this afternoon. othing like it was earlier this morning. and again, the best risk is going to be in pennsylvania with just a chance once you cross over the mason-dixon line and that chance lessens south. so south of d.c. not going to see that chance. we're going to see that around here in areas to the north. so, again, look this. timing it out for you. a few showers and thunderstorms. that is it. mastnly north. of us are staying dry as we continue into the evening. tomorrow we'll b t back low 90s. we have another chance ofo rs and thunderstorms. we'll show you that and we'll

show you the weekend that is coming up in a little bit. aaron. >> lauryn, thank you. the weather is heating up hid maybe you are tnking about a summer job. comg up, the top spots for jobs in the next few months. plus celebrating survival. a woman rescue after 17 days thanks to the searchers who ner gave up. ve

>> announcer: you're watching "news4 midday." welcome back. the maryland native who went missing in hawaii for weeksis expected to give her first public news cference today. amanda earl was found on friday after 17 days. she was lost in dfose st and had fallen off a cliff and fractured her leg. she's now well enough to whcelebrate the rescuers searched for her long after police called off their efforts. molly hunter re irts. >> so blessed for every breath that i take.

>> reporter: this morning gratitude for the m spotted her from the air. >> you guys are theoe hers. i'm just a girl sitting here ndaling my ankle. >> reporter: an emotionalnd amaeller greed them one after another. days after being airlifted out of the jungle, the 35-year-old yoga instructor and physical therapist suffered a fracture leg and severe sun burns and a skin infection. she stopped to meditate and rest and then gotdisoriented without her phone or gps. >> this is where she was. >> reporter: troy, part of the rescue team that found amanda, took us to the trail head where she took her hike. >> she ran up and cut sideways and ran a mile across the woods on the ton of the mountains and she ran down the road. >> instead of coming the same way. >> i don't go in that valley because it is so steep and box w canyons youn't get out of there snnchts.

>> reporter: she was five miled deep into the country. >> it came down to life and death and i had to choose and i chose life and i wouldn't take the easy wayou t. >> >> reporter: she survived sleepi in mud and crawling when she could no longer walk after falling off a 20 foot cliff. after two weeks of searching, her family never gave up. >> if anybody couldsurvive that, it was her. >> there she goes. >> i've neverperienced anything like this where it is just the community is showing up th so much fricking heart and guys h passion and these were not going to give up on me, thank god. >> reporter: now celebrating and giving thanks to the community that never lost hope. >> again, amanda eller isec expted to speak later today at a news conf mence. we'llitor that and bring you any news from it. well it is proving to be a very deay crime -- climbing season along the border.im

another r has died on mt. everett. 62-year-old christopher john coamlish is the third erican and the 13th person to die at the world's highest peak. reached the summit but died coming back down. most of the deaths have been attributed to exhaustion and lack of oxygen. the current climbing seon ends this>> month. an u7 -- an update to a story in ksfredericurg, the council has approved the fate of a slave auction block. the committee formed this month, some residents want to block -- want that block removed and want to put a museum there. the report mandates that a diverse group of people make a recommendation on short and long-term priorities for the site. the commission will meet again this week. well a simple tweet by the army to mark memorial dayas turned into something unexpected. veterans and families responded byelling harrowing stories about the mounting toll of war and military life. tom costello has re.

>> reporter: it started with an army tweet asking about the value of military servic y give to others to protect the ones i love and to better myself as a man and warrior. >> reporter: but that single tweet has drawn more than 10,000 responses. many very dark. including i became addicted to heroin, ptsd, depression, anxiety, nightmares, can't keep a job and have difficulty interacting with people. >> this is the table that i sat at when i tried to end my own life. >> you were going to kill yourself right here? >> yes. >> reporter: army veteran eric donahoe survived three ied explosions in iraq and returned home with a brain injury and ptsd. >> i decided everybody would be better without me and i grabbed my glock and sat down and put my glockinmy mouth and tried to pull the trigger. and the thing that stopped was the realization that my family would have to live here in the house. >> reporter: there are currently

19 million veterans, 20 of them die by suicide every single day. 1.5 times thevi cilian rate. tammy duckworth w lost both legs in iraq is now a senator fighting for better health care. >> there are no enough mental health professionals, and psychiatrists are needed. >> reporter: with the tweets growing by the hour, the army posted a crisis hotline number and tweeting yo stories are real and they matter. we have to take care of those who came back home with scars we can't see. >> every veteran has a story to tell and that story is part of our history a >> reporter: on this memorial day a reminderri of the sacce veterans continue to live with every day. tom costello, nbc news, carmel, indiana. well, get ready for summer heat. comg up, lauryn looks ahead totu temperares way above average and how long they'll stick around. plus sleeping pills, over-the-counter or p this is anni

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happening today, the first big trial in the opioid crisis begins in oklahoma. the trial set to get underway against johnson&johnson and several of the subsidiaries. they claim there is a public health crisis but marketing opioids. the trial could reveal documents and testimony to show what the company knew and when it knew it and how it responded. the state already reached several settlements with other makers. now the news for your health this morning. millions of americans are taking areeping pills each ye to get a good night's rest. but are you putting your health at risk when you take a pill before bed? haley hernandezorrepts. >> reporter: dr. reba matthew from memorial her man said itients suff from leeplessness are desperate to medicate with cold mets or euniceom which she disliked because people are usi these without a doctor guidance and putting themselves at risk for

major complicationed especially for elderly and pregnant and liver patients. >> there are other disordersin luding sleep disorders that will needo be ruled out before we resulto tmedication. >> reporter: she preferred to help patients to practice good sleep hygiene, stop smoking, no alcohol before bed and d't look at your phone for two hours before going to bed and take a hot shower and set the ro to a cool tperature. 33% of adults experience a form of insomnia. and even though dr. matthew ik doesn'tmedication, i ask why 20% of her patients are taking prescriptions. >> our goal is to try to get them off safely ifsi pe. and have them not be on a dependence your this medication. >> and could come with excessive sleepiness during the day and drug interaction, liver damage and habit-forming and could

cause respiratory depression which could suppress breathing in sleep apnea patients. >> you might wonder about mella tona. that is not fda approved for sleep but considered safe to try. altho is not meant to be taken regularly. i and thats because your body could become dependent on it and stop naturally making melatonin. so some food for thought before you consider any sleepingills but it could be hard to get a good night's sleep. four oke up at 1:00 a and a half hours and you look at the clock and your mind runs. >> you could come on in and do some work. >> i almost did.be well m'll just go to work. we have storms out there and, sten, because i know the storms are bad in dayton, ohio, yesterday, and that same system came right down into our area and that iswhy we had rain this morning. >> now we have the big-time >> yes. get ready for it. summer is here. and we'll continue to see things heat up this week. now we are going to cool down a little bit but we h ve to wait until the end of the week to do that. there is the system there.

i was trying to show you earlier. this is on an 18-hour loop but you coulsee the heavy rain that fell overnight last night. rolling right south of cleveland and then those were where all of the tornados came from and it move news our area and into the d.c. area. now of urse it was weakening as it crossed over the appalachians and the blu ridge mountains and closer to us and didn't start to fire back up until it moved over to the eastern shore. soerthat is wh they saw severe thunderstorm warnings. we didn't see any around here but heavy rain that people woke up last night because of that rain. we're left with lonely cells out there. mainly north in the baltimore area and now those are moving over chestertown, maryland, to the eastern shore off of dunn dock area. maybe a few sprinkles out there. but we are starting to clear out just a little bit. and if you are not seeing sunshine yet, you'll start to see it soon.wn sunshine do in luray and in the valley and that is why the eemperatures are in the low 80s but we'll g to around 90

degrees. it's breezy and definitely humid. we have sunshine through the mi part the day. and then we could see some thunderstorms fire up once again, mainly north of d.c. now there are isolated, about a 20% chance. if you are south of d.c., likely drive for the remainder of the day. tomorrow back in the low 90s and showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening and it is another hot and humid day tomorrow. so let's time i out. tomorrow morning, nothing like this morning.r we'll be could even have a little fog out there. but as we go through lunchtime, loong good. it is going to be hot. and then as we head through the early after son, stormstart to fire up. se could be heavy and strong. and here we go, 7:00. look at that. the storms roll through the area and until about 9:00 p.m. we're dry thursday morning and then we have another chance of storms as we head through the day on thursday. but temperatures over the next three days, in the low 90s. now yesterday we're in the mid-80s but we have to have three consecutive days to have a heat wave. we may hit the first heat wave of th. season

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♪ >> that is a new bilingual version of "fame" the musical playing now. louise and elena thomas star in the show and they join us with more to what to expect to head h to the ter. good morning. thank you for coming in today. it is such a fun production. this musical version of fame.il people are famr with the

movie and the tv show that was on in the '80s. how is it similar? t how iss production similar other than being at a performing arts hl. iow is it similar? >> it is smilar because you see the students struggling with theirheprofessions,re getting into in the performing arts so each of those are depicted u thecal but amplified because you have a front-row seat in experiencing that and feeling it. all the things that they go through. >> it is a big difference here. you see something on tv and you see it on the big screen and it is very different from feel ng the floor vibrate. >> the music. >> as actors, you sort of have to feel the audience and it helps or hurts in some cases i would imagine. >> it definitely helps if you have a full audience or -- you feed from their reactions. but you should never play for the audience. it doesn't matter how b the audience is, you should give your 100% to touch lives and inspiring and tell the story and to be committed to the story

100% every single time. >> all of the time. >> this is a lingual version of this production. explain what that will mean for people who come to see the show. >> it means that everybody could come see thesh . >> definitely. >> it doesn't matter if you speak english or spanish, it is spanglish. >> there are sub titles for english and spanish and the adaptation that our productions created highlights the different ethnicities that we have in the show. we have people from colombia -- >> the dominican republic -- >> all over. op and we're at a time in the world where pe are paying more attention to the sensitive issues and we're talking about immigration and dreamers in this this show sort of touches on some of those issues and themes too, right? >> definitely. >> and yeah because we're dreamers in this show. we're all migrants. that is t focus. it is a bunch of students that came from all different parts of the world and came to this fame school to pursue their dreams.

>> so if we go back to the theets -- the te.ater sid this is a high-energy production and music. that really drives this kind of production, right? >> yes. there are so many stand-out numbers, you have a gospel number and thena a sals sound as well. you have wonderful power ballads. rock and roll. it goescross a diaspora of what you want in an amazing musical theater production. so it ha something for everybody to enjoy. >> i grew up on the tv series in the '80s. >> with denny allen. >> so i uld imagine there is big dance numbers and legar wrs. >> for sure. >> some. >> yes. we wanted to emphasize that, yes, it tathes place in '80s but the stories are still universal and timeless. so we're not jumping around n '80s leg warms and head bands. >> that is '80s flair but it's

more today. >> it sounds like it is a lot of so we wish you the best of the luck with the rest of your run and "fame" the musical is running theat

> welcome back, everybody. i'm storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts and we're looking at a coudy day out

there right now. but we are starting to see a little bit of sunshine popping through the area. and we willee some more sunshine as we continue through the day. now look at this. that storm system that brought some tornados moving through ohio overnight and right into our area this morning. may have woken you up. but showers are out h e. except for a few lonely showers. now off to the eastern shore, for the most part we are dry and if you look back towards winchester and luray, we see sunshine. that is where the temperatures aretarting to go right on up. not to say we couldn't see a prinkle here or there throughout the middle part of the day but more likely to see sunshine through the middle of the part of the day. the rain moving to the eastern shore. just now over the chesapeake bay bridge on the other side of annapolis. so again, some showery weather on the eastern shore at this moment. but let's talk about back here at home. do an have any ch for severe weather on later on this afternoon for us. it is isolated. and it is mainly north of d.c.

if we see anything. after sunshine, yes. there uld be some sunshine afternoon. i do believe it is coming. if you are not seeing it already. we'll start to see more pops of sunshine moving arou the d.c. area. more rain this week. we do have some chances forsd wedne and thursday as the frontal system is draped over the area. once again these frontal system hang out over the region we'll have a chance for rain later on this week. but by friday we're dry. and we're mostly dry this hekend. we doave a few rain chances in this week but for the most part, a lot of us are staying dry and the rain chances are relatively small. especially compared to this morning. current temperatures right now, look at thare whewe're getting the sunshibye, luray up martinsberg an hagerstown in the low 80s and headed there and to right around 90 degrees for today. so, again, more sunshine through the middle part of the day andng startio cloud up, especially d.c. and north after about 4:00 or 5:00 and showers and thunderstorms poppinl off mai north of d.c. if you are closer to

pennsylvania, you'll have a better chance of seeing stdms. again, by 8:00, 9:00, we'll start to dry out. you could be a thaw but efinitely muggy into the overnight hours. d 90 degrees.aro it is breezy and starting to see the wind pick up a little bit right now from the southwest. so again definitely humid out there. and storms firing up north of d.c. and really where you see that risk, this is eanced risk, that is where the best chance of seeing storms and severe we her, again that is in pennsylvania. so right through maryland, where the slight risk is, we do have a chance that will the best chance to see some showers and thunderstorms across the area this afternoon. and again through this evening. so again, timing it out, by 2:00, maybe a lonely shower. but most of the storms are stayingorth of us so a lot of us staying dry, even into the 93 for tomorrow. so hot and humid tomorrow. the ten-day forecast i promised

you. storms tomorrow. could have one early in the afternoon and another round tomorrow late afternoon and through the evening. those could be strong. jusgiven how hot and humid it is tomorrow. once again the low 90s tomorrow. low 90s on thursday and another chance of showers and thunderstorms. but friday, beautiful. if you are traveling friday, getting into the beach, looking good. temperatures in the l 80s on friday. us around here, not bad for the weekend. but if you are headed to the beach, not bad at all.ab t a 30% chance of rain for maryland and delaware beach this is weekend with some pretty monday and tuesda we're dry with plenty of sunshine. >> we like the way that looks. thank yo that is it for "news4idday." we're back on the air this afternoon f:0st at 4and get news and weather updates any time with thebc washingto nn

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