adeadly hit-and-run crash has shut down a portion of the baltimore-washington parkway. good morning. i'm eun yang. >> i'm molette green. i'm in for aaron this morning. let's get to wpot rich hunter ts show where this is going on. >> traveling southbound on the s baltimore-wngton parkway all traffic diverted to the outer loop as a result of a serious morning crash thatnd remains u investigation. it occurred over top of the beltway on the southbound lanes of the parkway. so they are diverting it to the outer loop for now. no significant delay getting into that diversion. keep in mind if if you're on the outer loop and you have to go south on the parkway you can't do it. that is blocked but the inner loop is the parkway is open to go down to the outer district. back to you. >> rich,lehank you. 's check on your forecast for thursday morning with storm team

4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning to you. >> good morning, everybody. thursday morning is here and the weekend is close enough you can almost feel it. temperature now 70 degrees in purcell, virginia. 67 in springfield.é:ñ 67 degrees inmontgomery. plan on another sizzler. afternoon temperatures today once again above 90 degrees. sunset 5:45 and down at 8:37 this evening. rain chances will creep up just a little bit as we get into the weekend especially on your sunday. more about the timing and all ing up. c for now, back to the news. raceho for the white se officially on. last night, ten of the democrats running for president appeared in the first ofry two prima debates hosted by nbc in miami. there were some testing exchanges, but all of the es candidatagreed on one iing -- someone has to defeat

president trum 2020. the candidas also agreed that heal care was a human right and al americans should have coverage. >> they were splith how tey would accomplish that goal. americans have health insurance through their employer. the candidates asked if they want to do a with the private plans and put in place a government-run system for everyone. that idea is typically referred to as medicare for all. senator elizabeth warren and new york mayor bill deasio are in favor of that plan. >> i spent a big chun o my life studying why milies go broke and one of the number one reasons isthe cost of health care, medical bills. that is not yjust for people wh don't have insurance it's for people who have insurance. look at the bsiness model of an insurance company. it's to bring in as many dollars

as they can premiums an pay out as few dollarsoss psible for your health care. >> when beto rourke offered his opinion, they should be able tokeep it, de blasio pounced. >> no. i think the choice is fundamental. >> wait, wait, wait. private insurance is not working to tens of millions of americans when you talk about the copays, the deductibles, the premiums, you-of-pocket expenses are not working. how do you defend it's not working? >> they say it would kick millions of people off of their insurance. >> the audience was receptive to many candidatesbut the biggest applause after chuck todd asked them eir thoughts about the biggest global threat to america. listen to washington state governor jay inslee's answer

here. hr go ahead. >> the biggestat to the security of the united states is donald trump. >> dynamic gabbert. >> greatest threat -- >> other answers included ge climate chan the current conflict with ,iran china, russia and the threat of nuclear war. >> ourt coverage las night debate is far from over.ta we will ke a look at more of the big moments and a look ahead to tonight's debate with joe biden, senator kirsten gillibrand ande pet buttigieg. >> we are aring from a park police officer who shot and killed a man on the gw prkway in 2017. >> a new court filingthe aurora for officer lucas vineyard said he opened fire in self-defense. 25-year-old bijan ghaisar was shot to death. neyard is named in a civil

suit as one of the firing officers. in response to the lawsuit, vinerd said ghaiser the results of, quote, his own intentional and legal and/or otherwise wngful conduct. lawyers for the officer say they expect the justice department to decide soon whether the officers will face charges for civil rights violations. hre is a look at other top stories we are following for you this morning. a woman is recoveringbeafte ing hit by a car wile riding a scooter. thisne happeon woodmont avenue in bethesda. the woman was rushed to the hospital and police say she is lucky to be live. president trump head be toj an to take part in the g-20 summit. one area of focus will be the issue with trade with china. the twoountries have been at odds for months over this issue. there is also some question about whether the president will meet with russian president vladimir putin. the president has expressed interest but, as of now, there is no indication that wil the democrats winning streak

on the baseball diamd continues. they beat the republican last night 15-7 at nats park for the congressional baseball game. that game raises money for local charities. it's all in good fun and it brings people together which is a nice moment. >> c still ahead, ourverageas of lt night's democratic debate continues. we are looking at the biggest moments andg lookinead to tonight's round. plus we all hay hate the robocalls. to ress is working on a way stop them but now some of you may hold the power to do it yourself. y we will tell how when we return.

get ready for the fireworks and festivities. in exaceely a wk it will be the fourth of july. >> june flew by. now metro has released plans to get you aroundth o holiday. all operations open at 7:00 a.m0 to 11: at night. saturday schedule until 2:00 p.m. free parking at all metro-operated lots and garages. buses will operate on saturday's schedule. don't try to drive. we lived here most of our lives. wayfair reds of employees are supp. yet about the company's decision to sell furniture to detention centers

that house children's of migrants. they are upset over 200,000 order of bedroom furniture placed by a company that manages a texas detntion faciliy. wayfair has not made any public comment. this morning, there a new way for xfinity mobile users to fight those annoying robocalls. >> comcast says users can now download the pia app? is that what you call it? it alerts users c whichls are spam and free app identifies calls from common businesses and allows users to block calls from entire area codes. the move comes as federal om regulator cnies to do more to battle thosebo rolls. comcast is the parent company of nbc.

expertsay since vaccines have been to efftive in eradicating disease, people have more fear about possibleide effects. a studys confirm vaccination xrams a they found there is a significant drop in the strain of hpha cause the majority of cervical vaccines. the vaccine was first licensed in 2017 and large decrease in e prrvical lesions in teens and young women and the found in boys and older women. chuck bell has a cute friend reth him on the sc at least. >> on the screen.

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two dihours, ten ctes and dozens of questions. not one of the first democratic presidential debate is over a this morning voters and the candidates themselves are looking back on what was said and how it may impac the campaign. the debate was held in miami and this morning has is why news4 tracie potts joins us live. >> we want you to break this down for us. who had the best night and what happened that has people talking and still tal ng thismorning. good morning. >> reporter: well, people are going to talking about this a while. tod morning. people are goingo talking about this for a while because you had ten candidates on stage

mefighting for ti the questions were coming quickly. many of them had a significant amount of time to address some we heard them talking a lot about working families and the economy not working for them. there were clashes over health care. not everyone thinks that medicare for all, elizabeth warren's plan is the plan to get everyone in do see ator in this country. then they talked foreign affairs. an interesting exchange between gabbert and ryanfg and anistan whether we should pull out. she said iraq war veteran, a captain, who she said you got to get out of this war. tim ryan said not necessarily because that didn't work so well last time. there was some interesting exchanges here. the front-runner elizabeth warren had significant amount of air time but so did some of the other caidates whose names had not been as well recognized, at least according to the polls by voters before last night's debate. >> let's look ahead to tonight's

second debate with another round of candidates. here is a quick look at them. recognizablenames. what are we expecting to see from them tonight? >> reporter: that is going to be interesting. ese are four of the top six-tier candidates are at this debate tonight. laterestingly, did hear about president trump night who did not hear anything about joe biden. he didn't see these democrats going after their front-r tonight, that may be different because he will be he stage and ll have a very long record to answer for. >> he will. thank you, tracie potts, live in miami. aaron gilchrist is alsoin miami tove ever cothe debates and ore reaction. much me of his reports this afternoon and tonight on news4. closer to home, the future ofports betting on a mobile app has hit a snag withhe d.c. council. >> members are split over whether to award the lucrative

contract to the samempany that operates the lottery. betting at places like net bar and capital one arena will still offer sports betting note matr what is decided on the app. there are limitations you can bet on and include d.c.-based college sports team. you will be allowed to bet on maryland football but not georgetn basketball thatis. betting restrictions will also apply totv contests with judges like "the voice" or "america's got talent." that is interesting. this morning the united stat department of state is confirming another american hasw diedhile traveling to the dominican republic. khalid atkins of colorado was in the country on june 2h. our nbc affiliate in denveror rep that atkins fell ill anday passed aw before being able to fly home. yesterday, a funeral was held for nathaniel holmes. he and his fiance both from prince george's county county

passed awa in the dominican republic last month. autopsies were done in the caribbean but their family had autopsies complete here in the u.s. the rests of those tests will not be released unti next month. the state department says the number of americans who have died in the dr is not going up n but delta a is responding to the concern by waiving changed fee for flights to thei an republic. delta says anyone with a flight bheked to tm through august 15th is eligible. you can either change your astination or cncel your flight and put the value of your ticket to a futu trip. news4 is working forou in the community. some always brin blood shortages but we are told this year is worse than usual. so ede hospital call in the national guard. members of the virginia's 91st cyberbrigade came out in force yesterday to donate. they helped pop up blood

supplies which are critically low. >> we are all activated soldiers and we just decided to come out and support the community in ich we live in, serve inevery day. >> if you want to know where you can find a blood donation site, search blood in the nbc washington app. for most pet owners, it's a urghtmare scenario. finding out yo animal is missing. >> that situation is even worse for people who rely on the pets to help them. news4 megan fitzgerald introduces us to alocal with him who recently had a scare with her own therapy dog. >> reporter: like most people,er life o many ups and downs for morgan lucas. for years she struggled with fvere anxiety andr years ago she found hope and, in some ways a solution.e she medicin ozzie. >> ozzie is my emotional support animal. >> reporter: since then, morgae says lif so much better but

a few weeks ago she was getting ready to leave for vacation and she had ozzie not far from her house and minutes after leaving s received a call that ozzie ran away. scouring through these fields at this transfer station in fairfax county. on the seventh day. >> i looked in my rearview mirror of the truck and i seen the dog go over the bank. rk reporter: she got a call from raymond who wos here. he found morgan's number a on missing dog flyer nearby. morgan stopped by to say thank you for proving why it's important to never give up hope. gan fitzgerald, news4. we have breaking nws on the roads right now. wpot jack taylor joins us more on.h what is going jack, are you there? >> the big trouble on t baltimore-washington parkway southbound. unfortunately a fatal crash overnight and all traffic at this point is having to divert to the outer loop to go south on

the baltimore-washington parkway that isos also cl. there is a delay on the beltway in alexandria. ight past eisenhower avenue. overnight work forced the left lane getting by and caed an early delay so far early this morning. back to you. time to cck in on the forecast. tower camera looking towards capitol hill. a fine morning to get outside and spend time in the great outdoors. coolest part of theday, obviously. sun is not up just yet. so far we are getting close to the endf the month of june. it will go down as a warmer and wetter than average month and fa keeping rainll surplus as we finish out june a get into july. about the biggest impt th weather may have on you today is poor air quality. high pressure means the air is stagnated over the region so the pollution is building up so poor air quality code orange. if you have respiratory or

cardiac issues you want to limit any strenuous activity as best you can, especially during peak ofro daytime heating f10:00 a.m. to 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. in the 60s and some of the cooler suburbs this morning. 66 in manassas. 67 degrees in germantown and 70 in frederick, maryland. unaffected by raindrops on the way in and out of work today but ho h withghs above 90 so you could get the car washed. low rain chances for today. tomorrow a slight chance for a h ower. it will be even warmer. tomorrow's high is 95 degrees. this little area of disturbed weather in parts of the lower great lakes will bring the tiniest of little rain chances our way for today andtomorrow. future weather for today, a gradual buildup of clouds along and to west of the blue ridge. between 3:00 and 6:00 there could be a slightest chance of isolated rain shower andaybe a stray rumble or two of thunder

and stays away from the washington area today and fizzled out instanas soon as th es down. tomorrow a 20% chance. not expect widespread ra just a quick little shower chance this afternoon. our next best chance for rain comes on sunda ok at that ten-day forecast. >> monday is barely below 90. come on, chuck. french authorit say no evidence that someone intengs sly intentionalet the fire at notre dame cathedral. they believe a great sparked the

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breaking news. a deadly hit-and-run crash shut down part of the bw parkway. >> the southbound la s are closed at the beltway and could stay that way for a while this morning. we are working for you. jack taylor wil help you get around the closure. the volume is building this morning. we are on and overpass looking down on the southboun lanes of the bw parkway. all lanes s of theouthbound bw parkway are closed. you canhe srrow sign there and forcing traffic to the outer

loop of the beltway.nd the nortide side of the as you're able to go and you have to exit here. this was a deadly pedestrian and run and happened right around midnight. not a lot of information about exactly what happened. we don't know, for example, why that pedestrian was down there on the bw parkway. also no information, no make or model on the vehicle that struck the pedestrian but, obviously, anyone who happened to be in the area and perhaps saw something uspicious, you're asked to contactvariationsinvestigators. we don't have a firm idea how long this will be closed. i'm told there is a rath large debris field down there on the parkway itself, so thereis some cleanup involve as well as some accident documentation, reconstruction that has to be completed before th can open these lanes. right now, ere, the bottom line for commuters, southbound lanes of the bw paway closed. we are in the area of green belt. you'll be