breaking ns. four people wounded in an overnight shooting in the district. reseveral shooters we believed to be involved but no arrests have been made. right now, pole are continuing their search while two ofhose victims deal with potentially life-threatening wound. good morning, everybody. i'm eun yang ot i'm aaron gilchrist. more on the shog investigation in a moment. we are in weather alert mode again this monday morning. melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic but we start with storm team 4 chuck bell. heavy have had period of rain overnight and areas of high water across the region this morning.ss so the poility still exists for there to be additional flash flooding here during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. most of the heavier part of the rain will come here before lunch time today. right now, we are in the 70sro acss the area.

temperate wise it is a humid start to the day. with all of the cloud and the i pretty hgh rain chances around, afterno high today will be comfortably lower an average the upper 70s to around 80. take your umbrella. it's the humidity and raince chans today. complete updated forecast zone-by-zone in our nbc washington app and i will post more on my social media pages. rain across thesearea. also rain right here across part of calvert and st. mary's county. let's go over to traffic. >> good morning. we are still slow here northbound i-95 near mfries. you're getting by on the left. i spoke with police and they hope it get this out of the way fairly soon.t for now slow. the tractor-trailer was on its side and over the guardrail and driver had to be transported to the hospita

brand. new problem eastbound 66 at you 50. inner loop, outer loop of the beltway, no issue. breaking news. we are following in southeast washington. police say four people were shot around midnight on martin luther king avenue. we are working to learn their names but we know two have life-threatening wound. officers say the other two tovictims are expected sturviv. right now, police are looking for three shooters and they say they wre allring masks. a peaceful sunday turned into panic and chaos at union d.ation. >> . fire official say that somebody set off fireworks inside union station triggering a massive police response. a lot of people thought there was an active shooter situation there. a loud bang sent people running for the exits and heading into bathroom andur restats to hide. witnesses we spoke to describe the scene. >> we were at johnny rockets and then it sounded like crashing and everybody was jumping over

the counters and everything. so we ran behind like into the kitchen. >> it was like a day where you're in panic and you can't believe this is ppening. i'm glad it was nothing. >> the fire officials tell us three people were treated for medical conditions triggered that scare. operations are now back to normal at union >>ation. > an elderly woman was killed over theeneekend wh a fire started inside her alexandria apartment. the fire began at around 5:30su ay morning at the south court garden apartment mplex. a neighbor smelled the smoke and called 911. the emergency dispatcher told him to pull the fire before evacuating. firefighters arrived in minutes and helped get other people out. >> they also had to use ladders to get a couple of folks off of their terrace c aple of levels above the original unit. no other injuries wrte repo and no firefighters were injured

at the time. >> no other apartments were damaged. investigators have not released the name of the woman who died. they say the cause was improperlyed discard cigarettes. this moing, several families are mourning the loss of their loved ones killed in crash across our region. at least nine people died over the fourth of july weekend. there were five death in spotssylvania county. one in frederick, maryland, and one i atlanta. the crash was caused by a wrong way driver on the beltway.

the wrong way driver was migued go mical and they say alcohol with was a factor in the crash. >>is morning, the search is on for a gunman who injured three passengers in northeast washington. police say it happened friday night in the brookhoand neighborod. the driver was on 17th and otis place when he was shot. ahe is expected to be ok the passengers were injured by flying glass in the car but they were not taken to the hospital. no arrests were made. you may in the doors opening faster on the red line because they switched to automatic door e eration over the weekend. metro official hasted the system and trained operators. they plan to start operation on the other lines later this year and operators will continue to manually close the doors at all times. 2> at noon today a stretch of route in fauquier county will close and impact the northbound lanes from riley v road tonce hill road. they plan to remove hill that make it hard to see the traffic lights. southbound lanes will not be

ffect and that project will ongoing until august. add miles an hour moran was nominated by president trump and confirmed by the senate in may.t last nighthe navy announced he would be ending his. career few details about why he waspp steg down are available. ut navy secretary richard spencer said thatn mora showed poor judgment regarding a professional relationship. admiral john richardson who has been serving asctive chief operations will remain in that position. over the weekend, movie pass announced it is shutting down for a while. >> it's a theater subscriptioni serv that says it will be offline for week. during the shutdown, the company says it will work on a new version of its app. movie pass until it's back up and running it will not accept new subscribers a customers will not be charged until it is i am so excited about this!

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>> "mulan" has a special pace heart. then "lion king." i am so excited!an you tell? icon of the music would make . surprise announcement during a weekend conce >> plus, firing back. a the britishbassador to the u.s. appears to slam the president in leaked reports back to the uk. what was said and how the president is responding. daews4 toy" will be right

stevie wonder announced he will soon be undergoi a kidney transplant. >> i'm going to have surgery.

i'm going to have a kidney transplant. all good. i have a donor. it's all good. >> wonder said he decided to make the public announcement during his concert to avoid rumor spreading about his health. the singer plans to perform three more shows aand then take break for the surgery. he did not say why he needed a transplant. >> i love he is going to continue to perform knowing he will ooeveeventually have surge. i hope he comes back. that boys just incredible. turning to new information from consumerreports. >> its medically team recently tested bugts repell the experts say repellants that do well against mosquitoes do well against ticks. the repellants have one of three ingredients. deet. help me with this one. >> i don't know. chuck, do you know? >> i think an extra letter in

there. >> and lemon or eucalyptus. the repellants only last half an hour and commercial brand last six to seven hour. our clothe play an important role in protecting us against pests. >> make sure that you're wearing appropriate clothing such as long sleevedhirts and tuck your pants into your socks so that mosquitoes don't bite you at the ankles. >> i think it's called pecaradin, deet, or oil of lemon or eucalyptus. perts say make sure you don't have open containers of water in your yard and keep grass and weed cut to keep the tick population down. 4:42 now. let's turn to chuck bell and hear about this weather alert. >> yes, indeed. high chances for rain today. because some area across the region have had quite a bit of rain recently, the flood threat is relatively high so any slow moving summer soakers today

could cause you laweather-red problems and get a coupled so dry out and more rain chance later in the week. your forecast is coming up. former vice president joe biden is not struggling in2020 lling but continues to face backlash made about segregationist senator.

leading our decision 2020 coverage this monday morning, good new and bad news for president trump. >> the president's job approval rating is now higher than it's ever been at 44%. that is according to "the washington post"/abc news poll released yesterday but the presiden shows him ten points behind joe biden in a hypothetical 2020 matchup. >> the former vice president is facing his own election struggles. t fcie potts joins us liverom capitol hill with more. reporter: the former vice president apologized over the weekend for comments that he made about working together wi segregationist. he got a lot of heat fth . while campaigning down south, ed he was sorry for any pain his

comments caused but ed h hepes it does not mar his 50-year record oforking on civil rights and equity. that is up he voters. he has a ten-point lead but it's narrowing over president trump. we heard from top democratic contender kamala harris saying she thought biden did the right thing by apologizing, although some have criticized it's too little and much too late. moving forward, some political analyst said need to get ahead of what could be the next big connect with the democ cts and thatld be his vote on supporting the iraq war. >> tracie potts, thank you.> er the weekend, president trump blasted britain's u.s.sador to the he said it's not a big fan of kim derek and that he has, quote, not served the uk well. in leaked on diplomatic cables,

derek called the president inept, insecure, and incompetent. the british government is defending the ambassador saying its ambassador are allowed to be candid when expressing their views. it has launched an investigatioo into how tse cables were leaked. today, jeffrey epstei will be in court to face federal sex trafficking chargesand he was arrested in new york over the weekend. court documents show dozens of underaged girls were brought to his palm beach mansion allegedly .for sex it was part of a deal his attorney struck in 2008 which allowed him to avoid a lengthy jail sentence fllowing accusations of having sex with underaged girls. tomorrow, the debate over gun control take center stage in virginia. the governor called a special session after the mass shootingh at virginia bn may. the governor wants lawmakers to vote on several measures. the republicans have criticized northam accused him of

expiting the virginia beach strategy for politicalgain. tense moments in freedom plaza over the weekend. >> confrontations as a far right group and counterprotesters diverse inside d.c. but the police were there to keep the peace. >> hey hey hey! >> on saturday, far right activists under the banner demand free speech. some were set their outspoken voices have been banned by social media rouleoutlets. some tried to breach the barricade but were turned away. nic. said theyade no arrests. we are lear more about the newuswners of the meum planned for the building and it will close at the end of the year so work can be done. johns hopkins university recently submitted a plan to convert the building into a -t state-ofhe-art occasional

facility and this is what it could look like. the school is not proposing a dramatic change to the outside but wenow the massive first amendment tablet will be mefered and we do not know where the museum will be moving to. yesterday, the us. women's national team won its fourth atitle. >> f in the d.c. region and around the world could not get enou enough. some americans were able to see the victory in person. ntthey cheered and cha as they left the are. for those who couldn't afford a ticket to nfrance,ional harbor worked out just fine. hundred of people turned out for a big watcher party th most of them rocked the red, white and blue. megan rapinoe scored a goal with a penalty kick. she was just so super cool and calm and collected. and then it was rose lavalle w

scored that second goal and she scored a goal in the 69th minute of play, helping team usa beat t the netherlands 1-1. this is the team's second world cup. you can watch roselay here in washington, d.c. at the end of au and you can watch them ay. the best. the win has only intensified the focus on the paid disparity between men's and women's soccer. nancy pelosi posted her congrulations to team usa saying the women's team,qoeduot showed us their greatness now so them the money!fa ly players make less than half of what male players make. now their jerseys are selling for more and them women's tea just won the world cup again and

the men's team didn't even qualified and still don't get paid enough and doesn't make sense! >> let's turn to the weather. com chuck? >> back to work on a monday. storm weather around on saturday but yesterday was nice. 78 degrees.ry it is ve warm and humid here before the 5:00 a.m. hour. light on wind out of the east and northeast this morning. that is part of a weather front which will graelgdually work it way down south. 80% chance you'll get rained on today. temperatures in the steamy 70s across the region. 80%chance of rain between now and 7:00 a.m. rain chance begin to dooinish time andbl prono more than a few leftover raindrops by 5:00 or 6:00 but you needed umbrella to play it safe. you can see a long stretch of dry weather back to our west, so

after today'sch rain ce, we go through tuesday and wednesday with nothing to worry about rainfall wiw,. for nohe heaviest of the rain from hagerstownto frederick. thunder and lightning across parts of ecalvrt county and northern parts of st. mary's county. at that time umbrella this morning and heaviest rain chances between now and aboutlu ch time today. once we get past noon time, if the computer will go for me here. not going to do it. just have to turn your back on it,t's all. rain chances by lunch time. farther to the south and with time today that rain chance gradually movesarther and further down into parts of southern maryland. there should be a general drying trend later on into the afterno cn. probablyan't give you the all dry until after the sun goes down but all dry for tomorrow. all dry on wednesday too with temperaturesei right around th seasonal average.

hotter weather returns on sunday a hang anround most of next week. northbound 95, dumfries had a slow downde here on the ri because of a tractor-trailer trash overnight buttt's out of way but tiny bit of a slow down in the main lanes but not like it was. much better on the map. 66 eastbound a 50, left side blocked by an accident. has now cleared out of the way. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway no big problem there. >> thank you. one of the greatest wonders in the world is showing some signs of decay. official say wind, sun, heavy

rains over the centuries on the great wall of china. imagine. that was built by hand. the sheer volume of tourists is also causingface damage. the local government has imposed a daily cap of 65,000 visitors. it's a tradition take lead to injury every year. two american were hurt this weekend at the annual running of the bulls in spain. the california man needed surgery for neck injuries and a m from kentucky was gored in the thigh. four other people had to go to lle hospital too. >> those thri seeker. i don't know why i'd want to run with a bunch of bull. >> i always thought i wanted to do it butas i've gotten older, good sense has kicked in. >> logic. next on news4, starbucks under fire. we will explain why the #dump starbucks was trending on social media over the holiday weekend. new information about your chances of developing an aggressive form of breast cancer. research shows two groups of

women are more at risk than others. find out if you fall into either of those categories. we will be right back. stay with us.

breaking news. five people shot overnight in washington, d.c. police are investigating attacks in two different parts of the city. ot> one person was sh in northwest. four people were shot in southeast. we have a crew headed to the scene there. we will tell you more detail about that in a few minutes. it is 5:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. a lot to catch you up over the holiday weekend. on top of that, there is a wether alert day. >> melissa mollet istanding by with your first 4 traffic. >> we start with meteorologist chuck bell with the rain chances. >> rain chances much later on in the day today. normally, this time of the year, our highest rain chances later on because of daytime heatg. today we have the rain outside this morning and a weather front that will do its best to push down through the area during the course of the day. so rain chances will be higher between now and lunch time and then start to trail off as we go from lunch toward dinnertime.

thunder and lightning here over the lower part of the chesapeake ray early this morning. no severe sto at this time but an early morning wake-up here for mother nature across parts of southern calvert and northern stmary's countyand frederick county, marynd, hagersto hagerstown. nothing that heavy just yet. because of the periods of heavy rain we have had the last couple of days theres a flash flood watch until 6:00 that does include all of the d.c. metro area so the ground is relatively saturated. any time you see period of heavy rain where you are today, just know that there couldo be s quick moving or high standing water around. hetemperature wise in tid to upper 70s now. a lot of cloud. won't budge much for temperatures today and highs arou 0e. warmer and sunnier tomorrownd more on that coming up