news4 today starts now. a deadly crash is slowing traffic on the beltway. we're tracking the latest on the cleanup. dueling really lietz wntown. far right groups stage a freedom of speech demonstration. they were outnumbered by counterprotesters. jeffery epstein gets put in handcufck after landing ba in the united states. more on how this case went from a controversial plea deal to new child sex trficking charges. got a lot going on on this sunday mornings. i'm adam t >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. we are probably seeing another

day like yesterday. >> yeah. >> it's going to be hot, hot, and even hotter. so, lauryn ricketts, when can wet get some relief around here? >> i think that's coming lat tomorrow, guys, and into tuesday. y.d wednesda but it's going to be hot around the area. maybe just not quite as humid. it will definitely be on thee. drier sid but we are dry right now. for now, i mean, it feels steamy when you walk out there. let's take a look outside. we have got the cloud cover and that's the way it's going to be today. not the best pool day out there, but definitely feeling like you need to take a dip somewhere only because it is so steamy and it's already warm. 80 degrees is our temperature right now already. we are dry across the ara, but then we are also looking at a few showers just trying to scoot own really coming out of the frostburg area. this has been moving rally slowly out of pittsburgh as we t saw ithe last couple of hours. a few showers possible into western maryland as we continue through the morning.

lateon thisfternoon more widespread rain. 80 degrees is our temperature right now. listen, let's talk about that widespread rain for thisoo aftern time it out just in case you have a couple of things you need to get done this afternoon before you head back to workom trrow. could be wet tomorrow as well. we will show you coming up. all right. a deadly crash that sh down traffic on the outer loop of the beltway in lanham. some cars are getting by on the shouder but traffic is backed up after this two-car crash here. one person was killed. another rushed to the hospital. we do have a t crew on way to the scene. we will ha more on this situation as it develops. meantime tense moments as a far right group and rged in rotesters conv downtown d.c. the two groupsaced off just blocks from the white house yesterday. on one side far right activists

and white supremacists. >> on the other anti-fascists and black lives matter. the conditions we ripe for trouble. police kept it going pretty smoothly. >> don't get behind me. you got it? get behind the line. you're breaking the law. >> reporter: police tried to keep the two side art. >>rn the flag, freedom of expression. >> reporter: but that wasn't always possible. >> in freedom plaza far right actvies rallied under the banner demand free speech upset voices have been banned by some social media outlets. providing securi for the rally the proud boys a known white supremacist group. >> fake news out there. that's okay. >> reporter: 200 to 300 supporters showed up for the far-right rally. some who opposed the far right also showed up and that sparked

some heated exchanges. police kept an eye on these men calling them sefselves antifa w they showed up wearing masks. on the other side a larger crowd organized by black lives matter gathered to voice their opposition, including many wearing masks. a police officer fell as police were trying to escort a supporter of president trump's out of the counterprotesters' area. even after the rally ended, supporters on both sides lingered in the area as police tried to keep them apart. after nearly three hours of speeches on both sides and some more shouting i the streets police reopened most of the streets and most of the demonstrators left. d.c. police say they made no arrests at either protest. in thera district, mark ss, news4. >> tenow, some pr who attended the far-right rally earlier in the day at freedom

plaza planned to meet at international hotel and go to a vip dinner. our crew saw phoenix getting on a charter bus. officers had to separate the groups. they hurled insults across the police barrier. one person was detained there. e billionaire he fund manager jeffery epstein is unde arrest on sex trafficking charges. "the daily beast" first rorted that authorities took him into custody in new york yesterday. and nbc confirms he is facing federal charges for incidents occurring between 2002 and 2005. court documents show dozens of underaged girls were brought to his palm beach mansion for what turned out to be sexual encounters. epstein avoided a lengthy jail sentence years ago registered as a sex offender and paying financial settlements to his victims. epstein's attorney is not commenting on the new charges.

psidential candidate and democratnt fronner joe biden is switching gears weeks after criticism over commentse made bout working with segregationists. yesterday the former vice president apologized. last month biden referenced the civility in the senate when he worked with two senators whoos opp civil rights back in the 1970s. many people criticized the comments, including senatorma ka harris. harris challengeden b on his comments during the first democratic debate. >> was i wrong? biden's poll numbers sank and hris' skyrocketed. yesterday in south carolina biden defended his work with civil rights. that race for the white the many topics on tap for "meet ahe press" this morning. chuck and the pl will break down the race and the immigration battle later this morning righ here on news4

minutes. about 25 >> that's right. meanwhile, investigators will be back on the scene after a msive explosion at a pshoppingaza in south florida. >> yeah, take a look at the smage here. patronsambling as chunks of concrete and steel rained down on them yesterday. officia explosion happened at a vacant pizza shop. the blast and debris damaged other stores and property. my goodness. more than 20 people were injured but no one died. witnesses recall the chaotic moments after that explosion. >> we heard a big like boom and the ceiling just started caving in. we were trying to get out. to be honest i thought like the "avengers" came or something like that. it was just -- itot was a l of smoke. it was just something to -- it was traumatizing. >> traumatizing and scary indeed.un firefighters ruptured gas lines in the rubble >> yeah, but they are still trying to determine an exact cause of that blast. meantime, want toet willreyu know sidents in southern alifornia are still on edge

after two powerful earthquakes rocked that region. take a look. >> this is b c! >> yo see there the grocery store shaking as the ground rumbles beneath it. the 7.1 quake struck friday night just outside ridgecrestki ma it the most powerful earthquake to hit at region in 20 years. it comes a day after a powerful earthquake struck the same area on the fourth of july. amazingly, no one died in any of this. thousands are without power or clean water. california's gonernor gavin wsome has declared a state of emergency and he is stressing that residents need to be prepared for anven bigger earthquake in the coming days or weeks. and a museum is leaving downtown d.c. and we are getting a look what the new occupant plans to do with the building on pennsylvania avenue. see more of their plans next on see more of their plans next on news4 today.

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good morning. thank you for joining us. for years this is what you would see along main street in purcellville on the way into old town, but that view is changing. artist addie moore is transformtog the wall a postcard with town scenes in each of the letters of the word purcellville. people seem to like it. >> everyone is super, super nice. nothing but positive energy and comments all day that i'm here. it feel really good i am not out here just for nothing. people really enjoy it and seem to want me to finiso >> got t love art. >> yeah. >> more fashionis from th barrel design she painted in the town's summer art project a few years ago. she expects to be finished by the end of the month. and more changes are planned for

public art in purcellville. another artist will be transforming this wall in the heart of old town. >> love to see those murals. >> yeah. this morning we are getting a new look at britain's newest royal. the duke and duchess of sussex shared pictures of baby archie at his christening yesterday. prince harry and meagan beaming surrounded by family at windsor castle. handmade replica of a rol christening roby queen victoria in the 1800s. this was private just for family and close friends. >> what a sweet boy. >> yeah. >> i lovebabies. millions of people visit the great wall of china every year, of course, but now the historic tourist attraction ction iis inf repairs. a combination of factors is causes sections to crumble. workers are using traditional methods toix the damage. they need to place new stones in the wall one at a time. so get this. it takes 45 minutes to install

just one stone weighing more than 220 pounds. >> how long did it take in the day when they built that thing? >> it makes you wonder, right? >> wow, that's crazy. as the museum gets ready to shut its doors we are learning about what the building's new owners have in mind for the next move. >> johns hopkins university is going to take over and recently submitted a plan to convert the building along pennsylvania avnue into a state-of-the-art educational facility. take a look. this is what it could look like. e school isn't proposing a dramatic change to the outside, but we know that the massive llrst amendment tablet wbe removed. the museum is set to close the end of the year. it has not announced a new location. an end of an era for that building. an obstacle course like none other. the winning prize is just as u neib. so they ccheck this out. the annual world wife-carrying

championship in finland. the grueling course includes a pool and wooden barrier. this year's competition was held in e rain. >> i guess that made it extra tough. you can see some of the competitors had a sense of humor about it. w theye costumes. the winners were the defending champs, a couple from lithuania. and the prize is the woman's weight in beer. >> wow. >> so it's all worth it then. >> how interesting. >> it's all worth it. >> they are probably looking at us for the food-eating competition, hot dogs. what are the americans doing? >> love this. >> anyway, got to love it. a live look outside. another hot day in store. we will be back with lauryn et cketts to dail our rifo

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hey, this week many of us read and saw new accounts of the id conditions insthose detention centers on the southern border. >> that's right. the renewed fight over immigration awill be front and center this morning on "meet the press." joining us is chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." this is what a lot of people are talking about. we have seen jarring and disturbing images of what's happeng on the border. i guess the question is will congress pass anything? >> actually, weee haven't s the images. we have been reading -- we are visualizing some of these images. we ha seen a few. >> a father and child trying to

cross. >> i wonder if things would change if we saw cameras that matched the descptions we're reading. and i think th that is the disconnectere and that, look, i do thi you'd suddenly see a capitol hiller move fast if we captured on camera what we have beeneading about here a little bit. obviously, they prevented cameras. members of congress they confiscate phones. you want to ask, what are you afraid of here? i do think that might be, you know, that might be a critical missing piece of information here.r but you'll heat on the show. if this were left up to congress, i think they could come up with something here. but the president clearlys not moved by this. he doesot see this as necessarily a problem. he sees it as leverage. that's how he is viewing it. he is hoping it's a i don't think it's proving to be a deterrent. i think he still believes it's leverage. and so i think -- remember it was the pictus of syrian

children that moved him to act in syria. perhaps pictures of these ma children move him. >> he could be saying, look, we are doing what i said we were going to do, which is stop people from coming in the country. >> important to rememb l he neveres to, quote, look weak on immigration. i think he thinks anytime he even eouses empathy he looks, quote, soft. and this is something that -- look, 's who he is. >> right. >> good, bad, and ugly on this. et who he is on this. he neverants to, quote, look soft, when it comes to immigrants. >> switching gears to joe biden now. defended his record in the senate. we also heard an apology from joe biden. what do you make of this? >> well, it was a classic washington apology. he seemed to apologize for anybody that took his comments the wrong way. look, one of ourpanelists makes this point. the bigger problem for joe biden

is not debating segregation. the bigger problem is he served so long that he serv with segregationists. it is a reminder beneath ng everythi else he has been around a longe. his biggest challenge to me is can a man whose political career spanned 25 years of the last century -- >> that's what he is saying. >> to be a man of the 21st century? look, i think this. i think he had to do what he did. he had to change h name to barack obam s vice president. >> right. >> but we are going to see it in the next debate. i think there will be a pile on. i think everybody willook at what kamala harris accomplished and the rest will think i am going after biden. he will be prepared this time. if he ndles it after being prepared, it might alleviate concern. if he doesn't handle it, we could see a whole new race. >> and he could fight back next time, too. >> that's what i mean. we are going to have more clarity in the next round of debates about the sturdiness of

joe biden's candidacy. >> you can seemeet the press" every sunday at 10:30 right here after news4 today ten minutes away. chuck, thank you so much. chuck has team usa winning by the way. >> who in this country is going to say -- the netherlands. >> come on. >> the netherlands can host the afterparty. >> there you go. >> to celebra the victory. va la usa. >> let's go to amsterdam to celebrate. >> on that note, what's the weather going to be like? we better get our plane ridk qu after this game ends because, yeah, we have got temperatures out there right now in the 80s, but w rhave gotn on the way. so we are going to see some rain showers. could be heavy. so flooding is going to be a main concern later this afternoon. >> like this last week? >> that's another thing. we are so saturated i think we could see additional powerag out. e did have some already.

so again we aregoing to have to watch for tha any trees down. i saw trees down on my winto wok today. i saw some trn.es dow let's take a look outside right now. it's hazy. it's cloudy. it's steamy out there. boy, from the rain that we got yesterday it really feels like that humidity is just piled on out there. temperatures are at 80 degrees right now. we will continue to see them go on uyo now, sunday outlook, spe speaking of the pool, rain after luncht e. it could heavy. we have that nats game 1:35 first pitch taking on the kansas city royap. hoully, we can get the game in. we got the game in yesterday and we had a curly w. keep an eye to the sky. world cup sit inside, bring an umbrella because you will need it by the time the game ends if you are watching the u.s. win, or maybe celebrating for an extra long time am you will need itnyway this afternoon. if we win.

i shouldn't jinx myself. numerous showers, some of those thunderstorms could be on the stronger side. relief tomorrow night and into tuesday. current temperatures right now in the 70s. 80s along the-95 dor a dor corr south and east. showers moving in after lunchtime. not to say we couldn't see a few west of the d.c. before noon but most of this afternoon lunchtime, all bets are off. scattered showers, thunderstorms, some could bring damaging winds, mainly concerned about flooding. this system left some flash flood conditions by pittsburgh. this will flow to the winchester area. it's moving slowly, but it will eventually movs there. that'what these storms are going to do. they are going to move slowly and that's why we will see h wvy rainith them. again some winds are possible. 4:00 scattered showers, a few thunderstorms. the orange and yellowseris the hearain. throughout the day today not going to be raining all day, but all throughouthe day today we are going to have some showers

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that area. >> that's right. and laun ricketts? >> be aware because we are also going to have heavy rain this afternoon. that could create some low visibility if you get caught in a heavy downpour. a few thunderstorms. better hans of numerous coverags ofhowers after lunchtime. tapering off tomorrow afternoon, ormorrow night. >> thank you f joining us. that's it for news4 today. "meet the press" coming up next. >> have great sunday, everyo. everybody.

this sunday, immigration crisis. democrats denounce conditions at migrant detention centers in texas. >> what we saw wodayas unconscionable. the whole system is broken.o it's got te fixed. >> and in florida. s not temporary housing. it's a prison camp. and president trump has an answer for them. >> you know how it could be taken care of? number one, tell them not to come because it's illegal. >> what's the solution? this morning, i'll talk to a democrat who has long called for centers like tse to be shut down, senator jeff merkley of oregon. nd to the only republican congressman representing any part of the border, will hurd of texas. plus, senator