district has the lgbtq community on edge. news 4 talking with some hmove puic fture in opg a ra lgest jedy. ten years since the uss.liest day in metro history.t it's a crisp start to our t now if you're going to walk the dog, maybe take a,ke

a lot of people are bracing for thempact ofamazon. you don't have to look hard to find visible signs of change when it comes to transportation in places like crysl city. i got to spend some time in that area this we show you how your commute could be changing. sparks and cutting. banging jackhammering. lifting and hauling. >> so sometimes you have to walk away from the windows. so yu can actually focus. >> reporter: scott works on a ninth floor of a nearby building

in crystal city. all the ch ges have been -- well, a lot. lunch hour hasn't been the same. >> this one they started from the top down so it's been like this for the past couple months. >> reporter: this trulyis an area that's being retrofitted. take a look at the south clark and bell street bridge is dem l tmolished the car is the main focus. we do stories about bridges coming together. not often you'll see one coming apart and will stay apart forever. this is a look at crystal city, a completely changing landscape. areas opening up ahead of amazon's arrival. >> how do you see this place changiu ? what do yoink it's going to become? >> it's amazing watching what's going on right now. in the six or seven months sinca amazon m the announcement, it's going to be a really bustling city and i'm looking forward to it. >> report: planned to build a pedestrian bridge to reagan national airport closer to reality, walking to and from a

city to an airport on a dedicated bridge, that doesn't happen ofteni butt the construction. >> it's just a lot of noise too. it's a lot noise. >> reporter: tory wilson works here, he commutes from the district on metro and he'll see the benefit of a second metro entrance to the crystal city station. he says it's needed. >> because coming out of this entrance right here alone is, in the morning, terrible. it's terrible. everybody trying tostampede over each other to get to work on time. >> reporter: for now a neighborhood being reimagined ande redesign day by pretty noisy there right now. residents in virginia can have their voices heard before amazon's first phase of development in the area. next month there's a public meeting in arlington county, a review of what's going on and what's going to happen. that meeting will be wednesday, july 10th at 7:00 p.m. the meeting location has not yet been made public. the county is asking people to rsvp. taking a live look outside this morning as we say good

morning to rockville and rockvillepike. a beautiful start to our saturday, crisp start to our weekend. but will it stay like this the rest of today and

we're the slowskys. we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying opening a half ses. rig now tozen former d"roymnt" s well, of course you're looking for t something to do this ul weekend. we have another idea for you. a pop-up putt putt course that opened in rosslyn. it features the key bridge. who hasn't had a hard time getting over that? the temporary attraction is the brain child of the rosslyn business improvement district. >> so many fun things to do here. so in addition to the putt putt we have the candy bar, which is a wonderful place for people to relax and hang out. n we've gotvelty candies and ice creams and for the adults we have cider and beer and sangria.

>> sounds like a plan. the attraction i open fridays from 5:00 to 9:00 and saturdays from 10:00 until 6:00 in the evening. it runs through august 31st. tickets cost $3, if youorrese r. otherwise it's first come, first serve. maybe you're going to play putt putt, maybe you'reoing to play the real thing today on the links and theolf course. you're off to a beautiful start on this saturday morning and the rest of the day shaping honey, this gig-speed internet is ridiculously fast. we are sh iously keeping up wite joneses. keeping up with the ford's. keeping up with the garcia's. the romeros. patels. the wahh-the-wahh wolanske' os. right. no is going to have internet like this. xfinity makes keeping up with the joneses simple. easy. awesome.

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just about 7:30 on this saturday morning, we're foowing a prince georges county community in mourning after a teen was hit and killed by a car in his own neighborhood. meantime, a teen convicted of killing his young girlfriend now months after that murder, the chilli confession that you're only going to see here on news 4. and americans dying when they thought they were going for the perfect getaway in the dominican republic. now officials there say this is nothing new. >> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. wanto welcomeyou in at 7:30 on this saturday morning. thanks for being with us. i'm adam tuss. your beautiful start to weekend and you canotee anher nice day tomorrow as well. clay anderson says whater u're doing, g

welcome back. developinghis morning president trump will nominate mark es per to be the permanent defense secretary. a few days ago acting defense secreta pat shanahan resigned from his post amid ethics question. esper was trump's army secretary, a west point grad and gulf war veteran. one of his immediate challenges will be the crisis with iran. growing tensions between u.s. and iran have iranian-americans on edge. thousands marched from the state department to the white house saying they want change. war.don't want a our chris gordon was in the crowd and has t story. >> reporter: iranian-americans from across the united states rallying in front of the u.s. state department. they want a free iran, a non-nuclear iran andthey want regime change.

>> my brother was arrested when he was 17, fresh out of high school, kept in prison 6 for/2 years and then executed at the same time the 1988 massacre of 30s 00 political prisoner iran. >> reporter: a small group of counterdemonstrators from code pink showed up. they were quickly surrounded and shouted down. >> we are here to encourage the u.s. government to seek peace with iran, dialogue with iran, no drone attacks o iran, lift the sanctions. they're starving iranian people. >> reporter: after t rally the anian-american demonstrators marched from the state department to the white house. my of these iranian-americans say that the united states has appeased the imenian govern for decades and some say they like the fact that the united states appears to btostanding up iran now. ed states go to

war with iran? >> absolute no. that's why we are here. to make sure that actually there is no war. >> reporter: i'm told tis rally and march was seen in iran becausof live coverage over the internet. chris gordon news 4. if you look at the mueller report there was no collusion. >> nowhere -- there not a single -- i've read this mueller report, both parts -- >> use the word collusion. >> not one place that says nothing happened. >> use the word collusion, use the word conspiracy -- >> neverio says no collus >> i'll be honest with you, nobody even mentions russia anymore since the mueller report, they don't mention it, in all fairness. >> that should get interesting. that's a small preview of that's a small preview of todd's exclusive interview with that sounds awesome. you can unlock the perfect tv package, so you pay for the pn you want. we get to see what we're actually using. i don't want to spend money on things that i don't need get access to over 425 channels for 60 days,

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