now on "news4 today," running wild and causing trouble. yikes! a black bear pops up in a local neighborhood much to the surpri of everyone who lives there. this morning, we are talking --e they ar talking to news4. a chemical smell evacuates an ;b$ñapartment. we know the caumy. >> eco is booming but making it harderhe for t fbi and we will tell you why they are mo spending big ney to change it. we begin this half hour with a live look outside. you're a fanf highway, humid summer days with a chance of afternoon storms, what is wrong with you? why would anybody like that? there is a threat of all that

stuff today. we are in weather alert mode this morning aa result. good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. >> we willgin with a check on your forecast. melissa mollet has a look at the roads but let's start with meteorologist chuck bell. >> in normal, oklahoma, they issue the severeeather watch boxes and may end up with one of those later on in the afternoon. everyone in the mid atlantic has a chance for a thunderstorm or two but the ye area is chances for severe storms are higherf area o low pressure moving through parts of ohio and get a sense, a counterclockwise swirl the radar returns there. overnight thunderstorms here in parts of west virginia. they are moving toward the northern part of the shenandoah valley.

so our friends out there you have a chance for ran. maybe thunder here during the middle and later part of the morng. humidity is in the afternoon. mid-70s this morning. a sticky started. this is lady, available for rescue at the humane rcue alliance and nice small and petite girl so go on their website and find out how to add a little lady to your family and get the miles in this morning.es rain chanc increase later today. melissa, 70% chance for storms! >> does not bode well for summer camp this afternoon. thank you, chuck. green belt we had traffic only getting by innt those ce lanes. now everything has been moved to the shoulder and has pretty much reopened. we lookgood there. inner loop near route 1 theri

ht lane is getting by that work zone. new issue here in triangle here. 66 looking into and out of town and 95 southbound from 32 down to the beltway 69 miles per hour and that will get you there in about t minutes. this morning, we are aying on top of a developing sory in philadelphia. one person was killed and at least seven others wounded during a shooting at a graduation party last night. 60 people gathered to celebrate when one person opened fire. no arrests have been made and no motive has been determined. closer to he. a sunday morning homicide in southeast washington remains under investigation. police say jackson was found dead in a neighborho on fourth street. he had been shot. police say a woman was also hit multiple times but is still alive. this morning, a prince

george's county iabuzz after sighting a bear. >> he as seen several times each time in residential areas and the recent one was last night in the area of jackson drive and adams drive. the bear was also seen on saturday. look at this. surveillance cameras caught him just rummaging near trash cans knocking over bird bath and running across backyards. look at him go! he is pretty fast too. a lot of people say this is the firsthetime thave seen him. the sighting have put some people on edge. they spoke to news4 arcy spencer last night. >> what would you do? >> i don't know. maybe run away. i don't know. >> reporter: go backn the house? >> yeah. >> and lock the doors. most people don't want hurt, just relocated to a new place. please don't come nearm e. black bears have inrynd since precolonial times andac

cording the national resources bear numbers have increased iwe ern maryland due to habitat s conditionoand cervation efforts. i'm not sure th is greatfor people who livehere in their homes with children and pets. >> good for the bears. >> exactly. frightening moment for people in downtown d.c. hazmat had to go door-to-door. a smell of pneumonia reported last night. investigators figured at water leak and that water had mixed with a chemical which caused the smell. p it w under control and the people were able to move back in. new this morning, police in new yorkrrested a d.c. man who is now accused of setting off a fire extinguisher who house cortez district office. a 31-year-old is accused of

criminal trespass and ischief. police say he did not make into her office but was on the same floor. she was not there at the time of the incident.x fairfacounty a man was found dead on saturday. e pool was at oxford house which helps people struggling with addiction. mark herring wrote a weekend op-ed laying out his reasoning, he thinks small amounts of marijuana should be criminalized. he says criminal prosecution costs the states tens of tellions of dollars and disproportionaly affects african-americans. a horse died saturday afteoon on the laurel racetseck. the hor was named petals and died. earlier reports indicate the horse suffered a heart attack.

the jockey was able to get on another horse and race. overloaded power sedip worker.ck bewith faces 30 years in p rison. college graduates this year are expected toe face the job market in decades. many career choices are available most with pretty high paid. good news. it poses a problem for the fbi which can compete. now the bureau is trying to find new ways to reach its recruiting goal of 16,000 applicants a year. typically 900ex are pected to go on. the bureau is spending 1.2 million dollars on a campaign it's called unexpected agentnd trying to change the image who is a potential agent. many pele believe you need military or law enforcement experience to apply while those are good traits to have, the fbi

says it has hired four engineers and power plant workers and even scientists and hoping to hire more women andminorities. it's like an assistant. we all have journalisd rees. > it makes you better at your job if you have different expertise. ahead, the things we all keep inside our homes that are posing a risk to the heal of our children. a wild weekend for weather. we are taking you across the country showing you what happened and the mess that needs to be cleaned up now.

a new study shows just how often a child requi s ane.r. visit because of things you keep around your house. >> thei natio children's hospital says that every two hours, a child has to go to the e.r. because of personal care products. we are talking about shampoos, eye drops and things like that. usually a child swallows a product or makes contact with the skin or eyes. nail polish remover to the mosts e.r. visi but hair care products that caused the most serious injuries and often required children to be whospitalized. at a cookout this weekend and a little girl blowing bubbles and just stuck the bubble thing in her mouth. moms were screaming it"spit

out!" >> h i knowair care products and laundry detergent but you never thin they would spray prhairsay in their eyes. a new invention for a kid. a cap designed for urpremat babies to wear and protects their hearing. elizabeth washburn had the ideaa a yeargo and it started as a science product. it's to reduce harmful noises to protect thr ear drums and can be adjusted for a snug fit over the baby's head. >> premature babies, their auditory system are not fully developed since they are born early. >> olivia has won several awards for this design including a 7,000 dollar grant. she has two patents pending and hopes to have the cap on the market in les than two years.

wow. kid! >> impressive! >> not only smart and innovative but helping babies who are starting out their lives too soon. let's check in wm h st team 4 chief meteorologist chuck bell. >> storm chances are going up. your gardening forecast, get it done before lunch time. 70s on the way out the door. close to 90 today but with a 70% chance for rain. here is a gardening tip from our friends. summer blooms are a few

14 before the hour. monday morning has arrived and brought with it the chance for severe weather. today will be hot and humid. this afternoon, before bring some pottial for storms. we are in weather alert mode f todaks. a big week ahead for president trump. he heads to orlando where he officially announces his bid for

re-election. he is t expected tout his record on t economy and point to the fact tha he was cleared of cllusion with russia in the mueller report. >> president is raising eyebrws when he talked about robert mueller this weekend with abc news. tracie potts is joining us live from capitol hill. what did the predent say abou mueller and what was the reaction. >> reporter: the question, should hee, did , try to fire the special counsel during ther h investigation? president trump telling acb he cou abc he could have but he didn't. we are watching the pol and the polls that the president doesn't believe -- he tells abc he doesn't believe a leak of his own internal polling that he is trailing joe bide in 11 key states. >> tracie potts on live for us apitol hill, thank you.

t>> comments the presidmade during that abc interview are picked apart by the democrats running in 2020. over the weekend, south bend, indiana, mayor a presidential hope pete buttigieg appeared on "meet the press" and told chuck todd what he would do? >> you call the fbi. the moment you look at it, you haveimplicated yourself and i don't think you would want to do that. look. some things are complicated in politics and ethics. this is not. and this is not theoretical either. a hostile foreign policy successfully attacked our democracy the last election and no indication they are backing off from trying to doit in the next election. >> buttigieg spoke to chuck from richmond, virginia, where he was at a campaign stop. u tensions between.s. and iran and stems from last week's attack on two oil tankers. the u.s. blames iranian forces to the attack. over the y eekend, secretarof

state miked pompeo sai the u.s. was not looking for war with iran, but all necessary action to keep shipping routes open and cefe will be taken. >> how ain are you that iran was responsible? >> it's unmistakable what happened here. these were:&ti÷ attacks by th g islamic republic of iran. >> u.s.li intence sources say they boarded he tankerfore u.s. was able to look into it. phoenix polic under scrutiny an an arizona family plans file a 10 million dollar lawsuit against the department. > centers around how officers handled a suspected tishoplifng incident. this video was recorded last onth. police say thecouple's 4-year-oldhild took a barbie doll from a dollar store. officers can be heard cursing with the couple. the woman who was pregnant wasi

her daughter and did not put her down because hot concrete. >> they tomatically came straight toward with force. >> they are terrorizing my family and i just felt hopeless thd defenseless. >> according to police report, one of thefi ofrs feared the woman was reaweing for a apon. phoenix police chief weighed in on what happened. >> i, like you, is disturbed about the language and actions of our officers. oassure you this incident not representativethe majority of phoenix police officers who serve this city. >> the p mayor ofhoenix said, in part, quote, i am deeply sorryf r what this family went through and i apologize to our m cnity. this is not who we are and i refuse to let this type of behavior go unchallenged. protests erupted during the mayor's speech over the weekend. >> there is no affordable housing!

>> one protester called the mayor a liar about the district's efforts to affordable housing in the district. here is the mayor's reaction. >> i never wi allow anyone to call me a liar. >> police escorted the protesters outf the center and the mayor announced a new initiative to make it people to afford a new home. it has discounted rates toy cit employees. this weekend pbeved t a pretty destructive one weather wise. across the country, people a cleaning up. we begin in indiana. the national weather service says five tornadoes touched down in various parts of that state this weekend. many event that had been scheduled for the week have been cancelled so areas can be cleaned up. right now, everyone in the

affected areas have been accounted for and no injuries have been reported. in arizona, a wildfire was the cause for concern. this is happening in the superstiti superstiti superstiti superstiti superstition wilderness area outside of the city. >> take aunook at this fl cloud that formed over central oklahoma over the weekend. it's notonfirmed any tornado touched do there but the entire state was hit with rain, hail, wind. another round of flood warnings were also issued. it is a storm team 4 alert day in our area. our chuck bell is back and has more on our forecast. >> good morning, everybody. monday is here. stly partly cloudy to cloudy. hot and humid around h e. that will lead t a likelihood of thunderstorms noonly today. keep your umbrella handy.

you'll need it tomorrow, wednesday, and thursday as well. i think our next chance for a dry day doesn't appear until friday. very unsettled weather today. highs near 90. so everyone has a chance for some thunder andtn lig today but highest chances for any severe storms right here in and around the washington and baltimore area and keep that in mind as you're planning your day. high pressure is pumping that heat and humidity in our ec dion. thunderstorms this morning out across parts of west virginia. they are tracking off to the northeast. at the pace they are going, are likely to impact the northern parts of the shenandoah valley between 8:00 and 9:00 this morning so keep your umbrella handy. rain chances in parts of the shenandoah. around the city i think we will wait until lunch time or shortly thereafteu here is fut weather to plan your day out. enough sunshine here this morning to have a quick jump in temperatures.t we will be in mid to upper

80s as early as lunch time and storms will begin earlier today. the fact there is thunder and lightning before the sun is up in west virginia, meanings likely to have thunderstorms 12:00 to 4:00. here is 4:00 on future eather. best chances for rain and thunder here in the washington area between 3:00 and 5:00. after 4:00 or 5:00 that rain and thunderstorm chances to st. mary's county area. not long after 6:00 or 7:00 this evening. another dry start tomorrow before likelihood of rain and thunder tomorrow afternoon. very rainy around here. friday and saturday look dry before more rain chances sneakc bain late sunday. lissa, most of your weekend should be dry. >> i like that part. northbound 95 after

quantico, a delay.rr not tele so northbound 95 after quantico in the triangle theght side has a crash. 66 looking fine. beltway overall once again is looking pretty good so no big complaints there. 70 southbound from frederic gets you there in 27 minutes. if you happen to be in ast esrgeore on saturday, your trip probably dot go as planned. >> this rning, the chain is apologizing for a weekend computch glit that shut down registers nationwide for hours. several people turned to social media to vent their frustration. this shopper at a store in tennessee posted video of the long lines on her instagram account and in our area, a customer at a store in rockville

posted this picture. target sae the registrs were down for two hoursreventing cashiers from scanning merchandise. >> we were just shopping around and there was an overhead page said all of the systems were down in target and nobody could bar anything so they closing the store. >> target says the registers are back online. the company is assuring customeat it was not a data breach and no information was compromised. they must have lost a lot of money because people left the store. >>helping you find a way to get bk your precious time. we know sitting in a waiting room while your car is being worked on could ab real pain. now a new service removes thg t inconvenience by comin right to you.

a tragedy for a local school. a teenager out for a job is killed. how the honor student and athlete is being remembered. marijuana is legal in d.c.b and for medicinal purposes in maryland. this moing, pressure is mounting to making it ok for people in virginia to have it as

well. >> god tolde it was okay. >> a teetnager is safe from an app. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron iilchrist. >> eun yang. we start with a weather alert and we start with chuck bell and what we need to know about being weather alert. heat and humidity are waiting for you. asstsoon as you out you'll notice how sticky it is. muggy start and plenty of clouds around and not much rain first thing but storm team 4 weather alert a possibly for severe storms this afternoon. the timing on tha a little bit earlier than normal and could be as early as 1:00. this is the beginning of unsettled weather pattern last most of the