it is 4:30 right now. you get started on this thursday, heat and humidity, that's what's on the horizon for us again today. for those of you who are sick the summer-like temperatures already -- >> what? >> if you are sick of it, some e a, there's relief on the way. >> may 30th. just getting started, aaron. >> i know. it's relative. good morning, eryone, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. ou'll also want to keep that umbrella handy once again today. our area dodged severe weather yesterday. but it wasn't too from us. just up the road in white marsh, maryland, north of baltimore. trees came down across roads and cars. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here with more on what we can expect. >> then we'll check iwith melissa mollet.

she's back in first 4 traffic with a look at the commute. chuck, show us what we need to know today. all right. another chance for strong to severe thunderstorms later on in the day today. it was definitely more of a miss unanimous a hit yesterday. no one -- more of a miss than a hid yesterday. no one complained about that. a slight risk of strong to severe storms up into pennsylvania. that's where most of the severe weather yesterday was. for us, a chance for a couple of thunderstorms. we'll watch it carefully. you see on the radar loop, this goes back 12 hours. wat all the lightningt the beginning across pennsylvania. it was quite the light show just north of us and just south of us. we didave scattered thunderstorms yesterday, everybody caught a break and not a single pers was heard to complain about tht. temperatures this morning with nothing showing up on storm team 4 radar in the 60s and 70s. future weather he, by 3:00 in the afternoon, we're likely to see thunderstorms bubbling up from about leesburg to frederick. i think if we're going thunderstorms in and around the

immediate area, they're most likely between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. this evening.th gs will quiet down after that as less humid air moves in. ain, 60s toaround 70 degrees here early this morning. your commute, dry roads for most of the day. just later in the afternoon, maybe dodging so thunderstorms. >> all right. thank you. taking a look, falls church, outer loop near 66, right lane still blocked, gets by i should say, beltway overall looking fine. that's not slowing too much. nothing to worry about there. an update in the district,d eastbonnsylvania avenue is shut down between 27th and 28 there in southeast.d the westboanes have reopened -- westbound lanes have reopened. that's good news. there's a crash that happened overnight an some power lines that came down. southbound on 270 from 70 to the spur, 67 miles per hour gets you there in 27 minutes.n looking good o270. here's the prince george's county into town, out of town, no worries.

eun? >> thank you. it's 4:33. we are learning new details in a deadly discovery inside a spotsylvania county home. >> reporter: three people were found debt inside a home on arlene acres drive yesterday g. mornin according to wtop, an infant and a toddler werelso found in the home. they were unharmed and taken to the hospital for observation. the dead were 39, 34, and 14-year-olds. their names have not been released. thepotsylvania county schif's office is class -- sheriff's effice is classifying theaths as suspicious. this morning calls to move forward with impeaching president trump are growing louder. this comes after special counsel robert mueller made a surprise statement yesterday. mueller said he does not have confidence president trumdid not commit a crime. house speaker nancy pelosi says congress will continue legisl e legislating and investigating before going down the path of peachment. >> everybody wants justice. everybody wants the president to

be held accountable in the most seriousway. and everybody believes -- i'm talking on the democratic side -- that no one is above the law, especially the president of the united states. coming up, tracie potts will join us live from capitol hill exactly where congress stands on this matter. 4:34. a ind, loving man and friend. that is how people are remembering prince george's county police officer davon mckenzie. the 24-year-old was killed in a crash yesterday on the beltway. we brought you that as breaking news. in addition to being a patrol officer, mckenzie was also a resource officer at the alementary school in riverdale. we spoke to fly and friends who just can't believe thats he' gone. >> good man. a good man. a caring man. a loving man. >> he just was a notiice young . when i heard that this morning, it hurt my heart. i couldn't believe it. i just can't believe it.

>> reporter: the pe department is helping the family as they make funeral arrangements. > today a former university of maryland student accused in a deadly hate crime will be back in court. sean urbanski is set to go on trial in july for the stabbing death of richard collins iii. t heargeted collins at a college park bus stop two years ago because he was black. collins was just a few days away from graduating from bowie state university, and he planned to join the army. urbanski's trial has been delayed several tis. news4 will bring you updates about what happens. 4:35. our other top stories this morning, d.c. police shot two pit bulls as they mauled a woman in southeast. the dogs pounced on the woman yesterda as she was taking out the trash. she has serious injuries nto he face and hands.ou a few h earlier, the same dogs attacked a teenage boy walking the family dog. the teen hurt his hand fighting

them off. neighbors say the animals have been terrorizing the neighborhood fo months. we're working to find out whether anyone was arrested after a high-spe chase through several local counties. this vrodeo is fm when police caught up to four shoplifting uspects in chevy chase last night. we're told the chaset started a the dulles town center. t l suspected police through a lound fairfax counties before being caught on aend street in montgomery county -- a deadend street in montgomery county. a man is receiving medical treatment after he lit himself on fire on the ellipse outside of the white house. you're looking at video showing the response at noonst yeday. the tourists said the man looked like a torch. his entire body was on fire. the officers used a fire distinguisher to douse the flames. popfrancis is reporting to claims against disaggressed ex-bishop theodore mccarrick. the pope said he did not remember whether he had been told in 2013 of claims against

mccarrick. in february the pope defrocked him after he was found to have abused adults and minor assemblyinaris. thisas recorded yesterday in montezuma, iowa. >> wow. >> you see kids warming up for a baseball game, and a funnel cloud forming in the background. look at that. the parents wh recorded the she tells nbc news that did not feel that there was a thrt to the boys. there was no rain, n win lightning. the game went on as scheduled. >> are you kidding me? maybe it's because they're used to that in iowa. if i saw it, we're leaving. bye. later today the national weather service will be trying to figure out if a tornado is to blame for this damage in canton, an hour southeast of dall. u see buildings were ripped apart by the storm. no official word on injuries. >> wow. t tonight is finals of the scripps national spelling bee.

more than 500 students have been competing at nional harbor all week. >> only 50 finalists are left in the running to be crowned the champion. two maryland eighth graders are among them, anson cook goes to cabin join middle school, and saked sundar is in clarksville. both have made it this far before. anson tied for 34th last year. saked tied for 12 place in one of those years. >> come on. trying to get into at least the top ten. >> the finalists will beon nari down to 15 ahead of the nationally televised championship. >> the winner will receive $40,000 and other prizes. good luck. it's now 4:38. coming up, foul ball danger. a child struck by a line drive. what we're learning about the girl overnight. and seeing red on the roads. i saw this yesterday, confused me becae it wasn't -- there were no words from wt i saw.

new lanes a added to busy stretch in downtown d.c. how this paint job could impact your commute. a fight for recognition, they fought and died for our country, but their names aren't on the vietnam memorial. up next, te technicalityat's complicating the tribute. our everyday diet is very acidic.

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back at 4:41. with a fun option for your family, the smithsonian's dinosaur hall will reopen next weekend. finally. it's been closed for renovation the last five years. it's such an amazing exhibit if you haven't seen it. during your next visit there will be new exhibits like a t-rex that was discovered in montana. it will also be much more interactive than it was aew f

years ago. for a closer look inside, stick around for the "today" show. tom costello is giving a sneak peek. the national history museum, you can get lost in there for hours. i love the dinosayrs. mond will mark the 50th anniversary of a deadly day in the vietnam war. 74 sailors were killed when their ship went i down the south china sea. >> none of those who gave their lives has their name on the vietnam wall. when the wall was being designed, the families of the lost sailors looked forward to being able to honor their loved ones. they were told their names wouldn't be added because the ship went downutside of the combat zone.mb one family me says it's like losing them all over again. >> the boys answered the call of their nation. they gave the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, and they deserve to be honored.

>> while congressional efforts have failed in the past, legislation is currently pentagon in the -- pending it senate that would pave the way for the lost 74 to have their names adde to the wall. good morning, everyone. thursday's off to a quiet but muggy start. tempetures in the 60s to low 70s. we'll be climbing quickly. we should all be in the mid 70s to near 80 degrees by 100 or 11:00 this morning. and near 90 for a high today. cracking out any thunderstorm chances for later today and a

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special counsel robert mueller says his report, quote, speaks for itself.e yesterday h gave a surprise statement on his report on the russia probe. mueller says thateven if he were to testify before congress, he wouldn't say basically anything more. >> the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public inany appearance before congress. >> this morning, calls to begin impeachment proceedings are growing louder, but not everyone is onboard. >> news4's tracie potts is live on capitol hill now with details on the path forwd. good morning. what could be nextnow? t reporter: it's not clear, that's kind ofhe story re. hile we've got more than 40 democrats and one republican saying it's time now to start impeachment proceedings, the leaditship isn't on board that. the committee that would start those proceedings, the judiciary committee, its chair sa everything's on the table, but they haven't decided. nancy pelosi, the huse speaker,

pumping the bnakes agaion impeachment saying they need continue investigating and let that take them wherever it leads. the white house says the statement by robert mueller, the surprise statement, emphasizes what they said after the report, it's case closed. no charges against the president, even though mueller made ie clear h could not charge the president even if he wanted to. but the white house says no charges, noio collusn, case closed. emocrats clear the plan to close anything at all. we jnost don't kw where they're headed with this. >> delaysy potts on -- tracie potts on the hill. thank you. today we're set to rive a major update on the fight for d.c. statehood. congresswoman eleanor holmes norton along with mayor bowser and d.c. councilairman phil mendelsohnn are hosting a new conference later on the national mall. back in march, congress passed a broad voting access and reform bill that call for d.c. to be defined as state.

it is the first time either chamber of congress has endorseo statehfor the district. we'll be streaming the bcnference when it gets underway in the n washington app. and take a look at this. the pavement is turning red in downtown washington. and it's all in name of a ut better comm starting monday, buses will be getting their first real bus-only lanes in the city, it will be along h and i streets in the white house. we've seen it before. the lanes will be enforced during rush hour only, and off peak you will be able to use them to park. you can also ride a bike or make right turn at the end of the block. this is a pilot program which will last three septembers. city leade hope it will ease ngestion and ma for a smoother commute. >> here's the thg, i drove down i street yesterday, no labeling to say what the lanes are, that you can or can't drive in them, park in them, no signage -- >> maybe they were ihe t process of fixing it up.

>> they've got do it all at once. >> i have seen the lanes, nobody used it, i think the red will help identify. over the memoday weekend, hundreds of teens caed a disturbance around baltimore's inner har. they started fights, attack people, and even jumped on cars. this morning we'reeeing police bodyra came showing officers breaking up a fight. police say six teens were arested. this happened as lot of families and tourists were out around dinnertime on saturday.or baltims mayor blamed the chaos on bad parenting, asking where werethe teens' parents. the uclu shot back saying the comments, quote, enforce the behavior. a ball was hit into the stands, and there is protective

netting at points in all stadiums, but it went over the net. he was shaken and apeared to be crying during innings. the girl was conscious and breathing. a woman died last yr after she was hit by a ball at dodger ladium. as seriously injured in 2017 after being hit in the face. 4:50 now. of dayse only a handful left in the school year for hundreds of local teathers. will be their final year. >> a news4 i-team investigation reveals widespread worry about teacher turnover at schools in our area. and it's report at nearly four in five local teachers surveyed by theea i said they thought of changing careers recentlee my. education officials in virginia, maryland, and d.c. have all issued warnings about teacher turnover. educators who are leaving the profession. in virginia, they've called the

turnover problem a worsening problem. in maryland, they say shortages are persistent. n d.c., the highest turnove rate in t area, a state board of education member said turnover is devastating. we wanted to know why so we surveyed teachers throughout the area. through unscientific, the -- though inscientific, more than 87% said they thought of leaving in the past two years. some cited lack of support from administrators for testing, iostudent behav and the distraction of student cell phones. heather sailoror said she needed more time with her children and left to open a family farm. >> i taught for 12 years. and i think that if i could have figured out a way to leave work at work, i would have figured it out in that period of time. >> you can't teach, go home, and be done teaching. >> correct. >> reporter: tonight on news4 as part of our full investigation, the other responses to our survey. what some school districts are doing to better retain teachers and the words that surface the

most often when we ask teachers why they're leaving. for now, scott macfarlane, news4 i-team. good news for s parents paying for college in virginia. every public college is freezing tuition for in-state students for the next school year. this is the first time every school has done this in 20 years. six schools are also freezing out-of-state costs. lawmakers included nearly $60 milln in this year's state budget for colleges that agreed to freeze their tuitions. every school took them up on the offer. pretty cool. >> yeah.ne >> good ws for some families. we are now in the midst of graduation season. and one high school in prince george's county offered a e surprisor its outgoing seniors. >> more than 150 seniors at coughlin high school made the transition at upper marlboro yesterday. they were greeted by r&b singer durell babs, known by many as tank. he has deep roots in our area. first moving to prince george's county as a child and also being a crossland adumb himself.

babs joined the group to sing and speak. >> i sang at my high school graduation. now ina a professiosinger. you know what i mean? so if it's -- if it started here, it's growing here, you know what i meait can blossom into whatever you want it to be. >> his speaking voice is nice, too. >> you should hear him sing. >> babs hopes the sfwlrs wienio take from him that anything is possible. that's my message when i speak to kids. believe that's true. i think hard work pays off. >> sure does. >> nice to see -- >> doesn't hurt. >> that's right, that's right, chelk b mr. hard-working weatherman yourself. >> yes. looking for a little chance again today of some stormy weather around. yesterday we were -- we were under a much higher threat for severe weather yesterday. happy to say that didn't really

pan out for us. the severe weather wasn't far enough away. it was guns blazing yesterday across nortylastern md and southern pennsylvania. luckily for us, we've got the big whiff w from severether yesterday. i am okay wi that. rainfall so far in the month of may, it has been warm and wet around here for the month. we're about an inch above at fall for the month national airport. half inch above average a dulles airport, and wi marshal, more than an inch above in rainfall. our changing climate, tis is -- this has been the case for some period of time. our tretch. -- our stretch of incredibly rainy weather continues. this goes back to late yesterday. there was a lot of thunder and lightning across southern pennsylvania and docross parts of southern virginia. so the threat was real yerterday. we sof got a little bit of a lucky break from it. again, for today, heat and

undance. in there will once again be at least a slight chance for some strong to severe storms today. let me walk you through future weaer to time that out. by 3:00 in the afternoon, showers and storms dotting the northern half of the area. to the mountains west virginia. most of that threat for today is going to stay just to the north of washington. we could certainly have an isolated, strong to severe storm around the d.c. metro area today. lower chance the if you live or travel south of the d.c. metro. all right. here's the ten-day forecast. it is all good news after todayt 90, h humid, stormy today. mid 80s tomorrow with falling humidity. a great day saturday. sunday, nice and cool, but a shower chance sunday afternoon. monday and tuesday of next week, i reize it's a monday and a tuesday, but those will be unbelievable days, the suburbs in the 50s those mornings. >> whoa. that is quite the change. s kay. falhurch, outer loop near 66, right lane is getting by the work zone. this is still the only worth on

the beltway. no major complaints. d.c., eastbound pennsylvania avenue shut down bet 27th and 28th there in southeast. the westbound lanes are open. this is a crash that happened overnight, took down a pole and some wires. so that's whye have that closure point there. westbound, dulles toll road at the main toll plaza, three e-zpass lanes are shut down for roadwork in tysons, 66 and 95 looking okay. into prince george's county, no problems. aaron? >> all right. thank you. it's 4:56.sa tequires you to empty your pockets at airport checkpoints. reminder, don't forget to put the change back afterwards. this morning, we have proof of ijust how quick adds up. last year, more than $60,000 was left behind at the tsa e biggest change collector was dulles airport, $30,0. overall, nearly a million dollars in change has been forgotten at u.s. airports. tsa plans to put the unclaimed

money toward chester countya trining requirements. >> that's a lot of money. >> yeah, it is. i can't imagine leaving monday behind. i need every cent i can get. ahead at 5:00,go months a the pope ordered one of the highest ranking cloikts in the country to be -- catholics in the country to be removed from the priesthood. now the pope is answering questions on what he knew abo -cardinal theodore mccarrick. that's next. we have to be able to

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two dog attacks turn into one drug investigation when police respond to s roblem anim the district. a seemingly small crime in loudoun county quickly gets out of hand and turns into a multistate pursuit. news4 was the only crew to see how the chase tame to an end. and a new report from the president's recent trip to japan suggests the president is still holding a grudge against former senator john mccain almost a year after his death. it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. thanks r joining us onu a thday. a sunny morning could take a rainy turn this afternoon. here's a live look outside right now. it is 74 degrees outside our studios. the heat continues, and so do our chances for rain. >> melissa mollet is looking at the roads and railsor your commute. we'll start with