unpredictable stormy weather, ouread stormy again tonight. storm team 4 is track the possibility of thunderstorms and showers developing people try to get home. >> just in time for the rush hour. >> you know the drill, folks. st's hot out there, humid and one minute it' sunny and next minute we are all getting soaked and we're all over it though here folks, workingor you right up until 7:00. >> meteorologist amelia draper in the storm center. where is the rain right >> well, the rain right now, doreen, is down in northern virginia about to make its way over 95 and it's avy in nature. seeing some rain passing over the bay right now and heading

towards the eastern shore and it's this activity that i'm keeping a close eye on and as we continue to head through the evening hours we'll see area of rain developing. the biggest threat will be heavy rain fall and look at all the ight coloringere on storm team 4 radar. this is moving towards woodbridge and quanting. light and the city of manassas seeing moderate rain. this is moving towards fredericksburg. there's about a 40% chance that you're dealing with some rain or a rumble of othunder, not everybody is going to see rain. north of washington you have the best chanre of ining dry. the heavy rain is going to be the biggest concern and that threat for severe storms where i'm talking about hail and wind gusts potentially is more so to our south. south of the fredericksburg area, so some good news there. leon this, rain is with a cold front that's going to cool us downor tomorrow. much more on that and the break from humidity coming up right around 6:20.

>> that will be welcome. >> all righty. >> we'll check back in with you. this is the most important thing you can haveth wi you. you can get hour-by hour financials and live radar from where you are at any mment and you can also get alerts. >> u.s. tension with iran. president trump has already said that tehran made in his words a big mistake. >> thatg right, and toni he's faced with trying to fashion the right rponse until iran's shootdown ofan unmanned american drone. this just the latest in a series of escalion including targeting oil tankers in the world's most vital shipping lane. >> a bipartisan group of congressional leaders ju left the white house to talk about what happens next. jennifer johnson is tracking the development for us.

jennifer? >> dorn and eon, the president said whoever did this was being loose and stupe. now it's become a war of words between the two countries, and both of them are trading accusations tonight. president trump putting iran on noticefter u.s. central command says iran shot down one of its drones. >> iran made a big mistake this. drone was in international waters clearly. we have it all document. >> reporter: iran's revolutionary guard shot down the drone in iranian airspace. >> this was an unprovoked attack on a u.s. surveillance as that's had not violated iranian airspace at any time. >> reporter: the president said fortunately this was an unmanned drone and hinted this may have been an accidhet. said he doesn't want war with iran but wouldn't comment on whether the u.s. will strike back. >> this is a new fly in the ointment what happe dooting

down the drone, and -- and this country will not stand for it, that i can tell snow 20re congssional leaders were briefed at the white house. the senate majority leader praised the administration's measured response so far while democrats are wore eat white house with act wiout congress having a say. >> the president may not intend to go to work here but we're worried that he and the administration may bumble into a war. >> the commander of iran's revolutionary guard says iran has no intention of war but this strike follows the attack of two oil tankers in the gulf last week and the u.s. military says iran was responsible and iran deni any involvement. >> we're not going to let them disrupt navigation of the seas and attk our assets or u.s. interests without paying a price so if they are itching for a fight they will get one. >> reporter: the attack comes as iran threatens to increase its uranium stockpiles after the u.s. pulled out of the 2015 leinternational nucr accord. the concerns tonight by the

secretary-general as he urges both sides to exercise restraint saying the world cannot afford a conflict in this regili. ve on capitol hill, jennifer johnson. back to you. >> thanks, jennifer. let's go to breaking news. embattled d.c. council member jack evans says he'll resign from the metro board next week. evans is the metroboard chair and in a left evans said he was proud of the work he did at the transit agency and he's now stepping down after a fleury of democratic and republican leaders calling for his resignation. evans admitted to "the washington post" today that an investigation realed he had violated metro's code of ethics. two days ago he said that probe found no wrongdoing. evans still faces a separate federal investigation. >> a giant cross meant to honor ose from prince george's county who died in world war i will be allowed to stay place. that's the ruling today from the u.s. supreme court on a challenge that said the monument

unconstitutionally endorses religion because it sits on public land. the so-called peace cross has been there for nearly a century. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams looks at the implications of today's decision. >> the cot said this cross can stand because it is a symbol of sacrifice. it's not primarily a religious symbol. it's not primarily a christian symbol, it's primarily a symbol of sacrifice. this adds to frankly a muddle of the supreme court's ews on what constitutes state endsement of religion. ahead in our next half hour, tracee wilkins has reaction froh sides of this case from prince george's county. e president joe biden made a phone call to a presidential nrival, jersey senator cory booker. he did that to ease tensions between the two over a public back and forth over some comments biden made while campaigning. the controversy started tuesday

when biden suggested that lawmakers on both sisls f t were more willing to reach a consensus when he senate back in the 1970. he j notoiedheed t that he ofte named two, both of whom were strong supporters of segregation. senator cory booker called on biden togize for what? cory should apologize. he knowson in my body. i've been involvedn civil rights my whole career period, period, period. >> the "new york times" reports that biden called booker several hours ater those comments l night. he did it to smooth things over but we're told that he did not apologize. a reminder the first democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign is going to play out over two nights next week. aaron gilchrist is going to be covering the debates for u his live reports from miami begin next wednesday and, of course, we hope that you'll watch the debate with us right here o nbc 4 t

iaccused of secretly recordin st weekend take your pick. plenty of sunshine friday, saturday and sunday. temperatures in the low 80s, not super hot and at least mild water temperatures will be just shy of 70 there.ke you'll things closer to home and headed into the poompts practice tonight. you can see that isolated storm chance and for people nortof istrict right now that's probably look safe and if you live further south down to id woodbr probably going to cancel your pns this evening. still on the breezy side and heading into the weekend sunday would be my pick. like it nice and hot o there, but saturday will provide plenty of sunshine, so here's a look at your weekend by the lowers. 60s, so it is going to be a mild to cool start saturdays and day morning but we warm up icely in ttohe

any rain chances we upouthee s of washington,t news is that th weekend is looking mainly if not completely tea meeter is going up. make sure you enjoy tomorrow and saturday. the median teaby monday you'll the large and if they had super sized that's what you'd be getting. mid-80s saturday and sunday and look at monday, a hive 92, and we're not just in the low 90 monday but tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, potentially rg hot and humid with highs in the low to mid-90s, guys. >> all right. a e-threy break from this sketchy we ather.amelia. >> the distract is getting back to basics, and that include making sure that busy intersections have bright easy-to-see crosswalks to keep

deri san mst oafr s .muirual bowser helps to paint one of the crosswalks inw4's amy cho is th >> these are the kind of crosswalks d.c. hopes to fix. anes fading ay >> neindghbors see it all the te when they are standing in the olds croswalks. yes, the time. >> kristine spencer lives at tha james creek apartments in southwest. near alayground and a reck center where kids often come. spencer says she worries about those kids getting hit by a car. >> it's very upsetting. it's very upsetting. you don't want t see any child get hurt. >> reporter: that's why today the d.c. department of transportation putting down bright new stripes to create new crosswalks that look like ladders, and that hopefully will stop the speeding. >> we' see an increase pedestrian charles allen talking about crashes like this one easter day, a man crushed by a car after it was hit by another car that arean a stop sign. >> we can't control for every

driver's behavimar, but ng sure that it's bright and move slower. ll seen means that >> i think it's long overdue. >> i think it'sre. at at t>>he yth d.c. mayor muriel bowser and the hand today city plans to eventually make all crosswalks look like this one, something that neighbors say is a step in the right direction. >> i love it. i love it. it feels great. >> reporter: in southwest, aimee cho, news 4. >> cool is out and the children are at home and a lot of people that means going into debt. >> yes, and we're working for your money tonight. consumer reporter susan hogan has a revealing look at how mana of us summer child care debt, and she's got some u tips to protect your bottom line. >> i'm adam tuss. what in the heck is this thing? there's no driver. it drives itself and you

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tonight bombshell testimony rocks the trial of a navy s.e.a.l. accuses of killing an iraqi prisoner. >> a witness took that stand and said that he did it, not the man who is on trial for the crime. special operations chief erward gallaas been on trial for the death of a teenage islamic state fighter when was wounded in an air strike. today prosecutors called another navy s.e.a.l. to the stand as a

witness, and tat witness told the court that while gallagher did stab the prisoner, he, the witness, was the one responsible for the boy's death afteroc blng his air tube. he called it a mercy killing because he said that he believed the boy would have eventually been tortured by iraqi forces. school is out but students in need are still able to eat lunch. the federal free meals program is now in place atchools throughout our area. the meals meet federal nutrition idelinesed and are offered on a first come first serve basis. we have the locations and times for the lunchesjusear in summer disc the driving. we'll show you where more self-driving vehicles are going to be hittinghe roads and how they will communicate with people. plus after an official high at reagan national of'r 92, we down to 88 degrees. we'll keep isolated rain chances in until 11:00 tonight.

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storm team 4 weather alert still in effect. at hot and humid day means we can see showers and storms pop up anywhere. it's also ushering in some pretty big changes. amelia will give us an update and a look at our weekend in just a few minutes. all right. we all know that sharing the road can be tough especially in this area. >> yeah. d so wh you think about having to deal with a shuttle that doesn't even have a driver? the planre are alady rolled out, and there are designs to expand it. >> what do you say we take a ride with transportation reporter adam tuss and check and see how these investigation work. reporter: well, hel there. would you ke to come take a ride on my new autonomous hicle? it d itself and its name is aly.

you may be riding it pretty soon. okay. this gizmo definitely doesn't belong to me, but it's pretty incredible to hop on boardnd see what it does. >> he'l basically learn the particular route and once it learns the route the vehicle is programmed to do this itself. >> reporter: it senses and reads everything around it. a similar system rolled out at joint base myer nderson hall. fairfax county looking at something like this for the mosaic district inhe merryfield area. there is some onboard right now to monitor the ride just as an extra layer of safety but check out howmart it is. >> so it's picking up all the vehicles and that bicyclist there. this taxi cab just comes to the stop sign. we were here first, and ited prted that taxi cab is not going to stop and go in time before we have already started

back. >> reporter: olly is layered with extensive gps and has lots of 3-d printed parts. check it out. it so high tech. there's so much cool technology on board this thing that the militaryctually uses some of it, and a lot ofey this th don't want you to see. we were told we couldn't show much of the central pewter goals and the eventual goals isse to the screens so it knows exactly what the next move is going to be. for now a lot of testing and the hope is it gets into widespreus e for everybody by the end of summer. at national harbor, adam tuss, news 4. >> am undtrack says pretty soon many of its trains heading out of union station and through virginia will have better wi-fi service. our news partners saymtrak is testing better on board equipment similar to what's used on acela trains. they say they are trying toeet increase ridership in virginia. the update should be completed by the end of september. we're told the upgrades will

also benefit riders heading o northut of union station through maryland and beyond. >> doze of high school students in the district are getting a big boost as they prepare to embark on their college careers. th d.c. economic club awarded $20,000 scholarships to 48 students last night. the foundandons are fg scholarships for five more students, too. the ascholarshipsre exclusively for d.c. public and charter school graduates and we talked with some of the recipients about this. >> i'll be in debt very much without this scholarship and i appreciate the founders of the scholarship. >> the students were picked for thr smarts, motivation and their academic credentials. last night's fes vities were eld at the j.w. marriott in northwest washington. back to our weather. we're track the chances for some of the pop-up showers and storms on this hot and humid june day. i think this is a juicy day. >> that's a good way to put it.

>> you can see how juicy the skies g behind us in the last ten minutes or so. you're watching it for us, aren't you? >> tracking rain following in the district south and to the east, and this is just developing over the last 20 minutes, even less. check it out, and with this rain i have to say, juguys, getting word in that the nats game is now in a delay, so, again, the nats in a delay righo check it out. heavy rain exiting quantico and moving over waldorf. clinton, maryland seeing light showers. the district, arlington and alexandria seeing light rain and heavier rain along the bowie area and out towards annapolis and bay bridge dealing with somd itional rain and future weather picking up on the trend of keeping rain i these similar locations and back along i-66 potentially over the next couple of hours. what i thinke might see is this kind of fizzle out and it might redevelop and fizzle out and potentially redevelop. up towards the north not seeing anything at all, and i think

areas north of let's say the clarksburg/germantown area will likely stay dry out there tonight. this is about ten minutes from now, and you can see, it's what we see initializing real well. it's looking pretty similar to what we're seeing on the radar 8:00 p.m. we're hitting the brakes and we see that redeveloping over the district and parts of 66 in northern virginia and even into parts of prince george's county in maryland. you can see rain favoring theseo similar locat and the potential for heavy rain based on what doreens saying and she's exactly right. the juiciness out there in the atmosphere. the threat for rain really diminishes as the cold front moves through the area. the winds ping and we're going to be noticeably breezy out there wi gusts at 30 to 35 miles per hour. a mix of clouds and sunshine, a really spectacular day. we start 6 off at degrees. we warm to a high of 84, and it's gorgeous on your friday

night. make plans outdoors, 78 degrees at 7:00 p.m. no humidity out there friday night, and we're running below normal. not just tomorrow and saturday as well. our average high is 86 degrees. sunday we're a little bit above normal with highs in the upper 80s. monday and tuesday, well, the heat and humidity build back into the ar in a big way. we're talking 90, low 90s pretty much in the forecast every single day next weekut the weekend, whether we have a low impact on your plans and a great weekend t head the pool, go golfing and do yard work. i'll take saturday when it's a little witt cooler out there. outside dining. rm andot in the afternoon hours and aside from that here's the tencaay fore. notice the 90s that we're talking about. monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday and then next teweekend as well af the threats for storms diminish tonight. our next chance for storms maybe an isolated chance of thunderstorms in southwest virginia and then a 40% chance for storms area-wide on monday. fton?

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all right. and this is nba draft night. you can see we'll begin at the wizards draft party. >> hi, ve, what shall we expect from the wizards tonight? >> what do expect. how about draft pick dave johnson with the number nine pick. they tell me the cool draft hats go to anybody who purchased a season ticket tonight. with mes head coach scott brooks. look at the sheer relief on his face that he's not drafting me. ninth overall pick. t it's tough pick at ninth overall because we're in a positionless nba right now. >> it's going to beng exci to see team and his staff do a lot

of work and preparing for this night. it's going to get us -- deliver a good player, a player that's going to -- that we'll be proud of. nd'll play hard and compete and be a great team a ninth pick is exciting times for us. >> look the history of the ninth pick. andre iguodala andr demarozan and dirk nowitzki, go down the list. looking at this the draft could there be a gem at number nine? >> there's good players throughout draft. you'll find good players in t a la early second and even late second.er there's the ninth pick and we know we'll get a good player >> wizards head coach scott sa brooks they tell me i've got to buy season tickets if i want to keep the hat so i'll send this back to you as i get money for the season tickets. >> i heard on the espn board, at ninth overall you're going top two so you won't make it t to wiz. sorry, scotty. >> let's talk about some world

cup action. the u.s. women's national team back in action taking on sweden today. pushing it a little much,p two? i don't know. i'm just saying, the swedes shocked everybody back in the olympics and payback. third minute offer the corner kick. horan off the corner kick and up 1-0. tobin heath. she's just playing with the defender, a little fancy move. t gooseop shelf that. one count as an own goal, however, against the swedish defender. usa wins 2-0. they will face spain in the knockout round on monday. a little closer to home this saturday,am super bowlp and native rodney mcleod hosting his camp. we'll be live to preview the camp which also includes an rv or free dental and vision exams. this week i caught up with rodney and the halls he once roamed. >> you're look around at all

these memories. what comes to mi right now? >> champion. >> yeah. >> you know, this is where everything started for me, the culture made me who i am. this is what i -- i identify with. it's a brotherhood here. >> reporter: why was it so important for you to host this right here at your alma matter? >> it's important to host it here. like i said, this is my roots growing up for me i didn't real -- i don't really remember or recall too many camps that i was fortunate enough to go, to so now myself as wll as a lot of my other peers have taken it upon ourselves to provide these opportunities for our kids. the game is not for long. you know, that's what the nfl stands for. offor a los players i did not solely plan on, you know, making it to the nfl because it also does lke an awful of hard work. you should believe in yourself and chase your dreams but if it doesn't happen, that shouldn't be the end for you. there's more to life, and -- and that's really my message to

these kids. >> what really separates mcleod's youth campay on satu is the fact there's free dental and vision exams. now on heels for a young astros fano we'll talk that on news 4, a young astros fan getting hit by a foul ball and astros will extend the netting to protect fans and the nationals will have the new netting by july 22nd for the game against colorado can. the netting goes to the dugouts ut will be extended just short of the outfield corners. good news for fans lking for autographs, the netting can be raised in certain sections to allow for pregame access and the nats game delayed tonight because of rain. hope flip not too long and we can see a little more baseball action. >> baseball fans have got to be getting impatient. >> like ground hogs day. >> over and over, yeah. . >> all right >> thank you, gary. >> thank you for joining us. "nightly news" starts here in 60 seconds. >> we hope to see you for "news

4 at 11:00." have a good evening.

breaking news to ght, president breaking news tonight, president trump says iran made a ngery big mistake in shooti down an american surveillance drone, new videothf e drone blown out of the sky and an y meeting in the situation room. how will the u.s. respond? a shocking twist at the trial of u.s. navy seal accused of executing a teenage prisoner when another seal took the witness stand and dropped a bombshell that no one saw ming, he killed the prisoner, not his comrade on trial. protests erupted, 72 police officers are benched amid an investigation of racist or inflammatory facebook posts. some federal safety officials sounding the alarm after the deaths of dozens of infants linked to a children's sleeper that officia