a hurricane warning in effect if louisiana an people all over the region are gearing up to get through that storm. overnight, singer r. kelly facing new federal sex crime charges this morning and findou t why he'll be brought to new york for this case. first, it is 4:00 a.m. good morning, everybody. you look so familiar. >> this is my first week on air girl and goodfax to be home. >> we know you were at our sister station in new york. >> i'm glad to be >>here. let's dive in.w p is in for melissa mollet

this morning for traffic. hello! 's getting weird! good new in the weather department. the risk of severe weather is tu out of the p for quite sometime to come. a little weather front and work its way through the region today. as itcomes through it might ring out one or two isolated rain shower in the day today. most of us will not get rained on for a fday. a lonesome drop in charlottesville. 73 in washington. cooler to the north west. 64 leesburg and 63 winchester. that slightly cooler and slightly more importantly less humid air moving in for the weekend. at least less humi here is your planner for hot and humid. a chance forh a ser or two.

mostseof tho rain chances across parts of northern virginia and northern maryland and lorraine chances for today. good morning, jack taylor. how are you? >> chuck, morning. starting off deja vuing agai hi. canal road is closed again this morning between reservoir and ll fox unfortunately, with monday's damage from the storm. that roadway will take a while to get radar so expect overflow film on the george washington boulevard and arizona avenue anr mur boulevard again. eastbound a malfunction and hopefully that will be rectified before we get into the rush hour on the bay bridge. another stron system swept through the area bringing rain, thunder, and isolated thunderstorms yesterday. ng down tree came cras

on a home in chevy chase, a man says he is lucky to be alivic mel was sitting on the couch feet away from where the tree tropical storm barry is expected to make landfall in louisiana. barry could lift the river to its highest level in 70 years. if barry turns into aan hurric the storm will make history.

>> this will be the first time that we have had a hurricane make landfall in louisiana while the mississippi river was at flood stage. >> president trump has approved an emergency declaratio ahead of barry and put fderal relief in place for disaster relief. a man accused of raping a woman on a dean wood station hfter surveillance cameras tracked his pat from another station. the victim told police he assaulted her at :30 yesterday afternoon and we are told no other witnesses or riders in the area at the time. the victim was taken to the hospital for evaluation. the suspect is charged wi first-degreeape and pending extradition from new york. cliftonelir was shot

several times yesterday afternoon and taken to the hospital where he later died. this is the 85th murder this year in the district. students at morgan state university are dealing with the murder of one of their classmates. manuel luis j was a sophomore business and management major from prince george's county and killed near an off caenpus dorm whe was getting in his car. we are told two suspects were trying to rob him and lice say luis was trying leave early yesterday morning to get to his parents home in hyatt isville when he was killed. update to atory we brought youbr aking new yesterday. police are working to identify who men who were killed by an suv while on a park bench in downtown d.c. one of the men were homeless. they believe they were sleeping on bench when the suv crashed into them. police have not decided whether to file chargesha depends

driver. d.c. police are searching for a man who they say atacked another person at an atm in broad daylight.e surveillancvideo captured thatlt assau on f street about two weeks ago. police say the suspect in the bl hoodie violently pulled a man to the ground after asking him for cash and the thief is said to steal $60 before he ran off. lieutenan richard collins was visiting friends when he as stabbed two years ago at umd. he was days awafrom graduating. court record show the delay was granted so the defense could prosecute defense evidence. this is the fourth time this trying has been delayed. r. kelly is facing federal

sex trafficking charges in both brooklyn and chicago. kelly was picked up by homeland security investigation agents and the nypd public safety task force. this arrest comes nearly five months after he was released on bail for additional sexual abuse charges. he willppear today in federal courtw in neyork city. doug wilder kissed a college studentithout her consent according to the results of the new investigation. he is 66 years oer than the student. "the washington post" reports they cleared wilder of three other allegations that the student made. wilder teaches at virginia commonwealth university. he was the nation's first elected blackovernor and has until next week to contest the investigation's findings. president trump says he is backing off his effort to

include a citizenship question on the census and says the government will collect that question in a different way. the president is taking executivio act to direct every federal department and agency to make that information available to thenommerce departmet. this is a new effort taking into account how many citizens and noncitizens are currently in the country. it's a move that could still play a r le inpolitical redistricting. >> we will collect all ormthe infoation we need to conduct an accurate census and to makebl respon decisions about public policy, voting rights, and representacon in gress. >> all of this comes two weeks after the supreme court ruled the trump administration de couldn't inc the question on the 2020 census. opponents have argued that ng includi the question could make immigrants afraid to respond which could lead to a v democrats call immigration rates planned this weekend.

nbc news is told that ice will carry out the raid on sunday. ede same raids that president trump postpon the last three weeks and expected to target ten families in the balm area. tho baltimarea. it is not their job to enforce do gration laws saying they not cooperate arece i on civil matters. they say the ins is planning for use hotels to detain children who can't you put in adult detention centers. g thoup is pressuring hotels to publicly promising not to be a part of any such plan. we turn now for the 2020 presidential race. a new poll shows a shift a very

crowded pool of democratic hopeful in the first nbc news/"the wall street journal" poll since e debate, joe biden remains on top. this poll also found amose voters nd choice, harris lead, followed by warren and sander. 12% of those polled say they definitely have made up their mind. >> boston red sox legend david ortiz is recovering after having a third surgery this week since being shot in thedo nican republic. in a statement his wife says ortiz is recovering well and is in good spirits. last month the former slugger was shot in the back while at a nightclub in santo domingo. dominican official say the shooting was a casef o mistaken identity and that owner tee was not the intendedr t. still ahead on "news4 today," amazon isll rog outso me great deals for the upcoming prime time but other

retails are ready toep ke up on their ow susan hogan has how you can win big on prime day. >>a courtroom talk you have to see to believe. find out why these brothers lunged at a man moments before a judgewas supposed to sentence him. i got good new from theth wea departmefor today. next five days will be nothing mo than hot and dry. that is good news indeed. we will talkighs and lows h

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morning. police say a boyfriend of the child's aunt confessed that he put the child's body in a dumpster after the little boy breathing. some dramatic courtroom ftage shows two brothers lunging as a man convicted of murdering their mother. this wild scene happenedin youngstown, ohio. the killer faces a possible life sentence for the shooting death of his mother. as the daughter was trying to make a statement the shooter was attacked. the sentence hearing had to be post poped. postponed. a video shs the moment a kfc blew up. this restaurant was closed at the timeo no one inside and nobody was hurt. the explosion damaged five other businesses that are nearby.

ford motor company is disputing claims it knowingly sold cars with defective transmissions. custlaers comping the transmission would randomly stall and suddenly accelerate. right now more than 1 million effected siesta and focus remain on the road. in a statement the company acknowledges the problem and state, quote. if you own an apple watch it could be eavesdropping on you. apple says a bug in the walkie-talkie feature could allow people to use that watch to listen to conversations through another person's iphone. the feature has only been around since about a year ago. apple says it will remain disabled until they can fix the issue. kid sleeping in and munching

on junk food and spending too much time in front of the screen could take a toll on your child when they go back to school. next week, th weshow you fun and easy ways to preven summer brain drain. moms acrossou the cntry are here in d.c. demanding lawmakers take action on climate change. they gathered o the mall on thursday for an event called play in for climate change. the group is urging congress and the presidentiacandidates to take the climate seriously. their goal is 100% clean ener by the year 2050. >> i'm here to ask the leader to take the decision that matter to save our planet. >> after the rally some of the moms met with their representatives in congress. 4:16 is our time. we turn to the. >> good morning. >> it's a good morning because

the rain is all out of here. i'm so glad. >> you've arrived and the weather was proofed immediately. >> k you. thelcome. >> i'm optimistic most of us won't have to worry too much about rainfall today. a tiny chance. never say never to mother nature, right? most of us won't have to worry about it and perfect for the weekend. it will be seasonably hot but you can't complain about hot in july in the washington area. we will get sunshineinto the next mid to late morning hours. steve sail skies wl clear out a bit and re than enough humidity hanging around i think we have to worry about an isolated rain chance today. 73 in d.c. winds out of the west at 7le per hour. let's start with the good news. weekend looks great and highs in the 90s and pretty much sunshine start-to-finish for your weekend. today a little bit of an

opportunity for a stray shower or thunder shower today but not expecting severe weather. temperatures will climb into the upper 80s to near 90 today. it's part of this weather front out here. it's drawn as a cold front but it's really not all that much colder behind it. it's aeally just wind shift line so instead of that winds to windiest the the northeast later into the afternoon and evening. the less humid air tries to settle in it may ring out a raindropr o. at 1:00 in the afternoon winchester to lorray and maybe a stray shower and a clap of thunder not out of the question but not expectit severe wr. that is about 1 to 2:00. that little chance for a shower today staysry south of essentially route 50 into parts of southern maryland. this is not going to be severe weather. this is a quick little passing rain shower or two and, most important of l, before the sun goes down, the radar will be

clear once again and it will be dry from there on out into the weekend. sunday maybe just a tiny little chance but not worth putting on the extended forecast there. more about tropical storm barry coming up in the next half hour. i'll start with a repeat performance unfortunately of yesterday's problem. canal road still ocked between reservoir and foxhall. unfortunately a sinkhole repairt coue. the weather is going to be great as chuck pointed out so the crews it continue the work over the weekend.

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anniversary. across the island, a crab festival. you do all your eat crabs if you dare or a la carte menu to enjoy also. speaking on the water the lily festival in anacstia park. this festival not onlybout smelling the flowers but a full roster of music, entertainment, arts, crafts, and plenty instagram opportunities. and just when you thought the fireworks were over, alexandria to the rescue, everyone. they are celebrating on saturday, independence day, the 243rd birthday. america but the 270th birthday of alexandria. going to have a townrr to celebrate the festivities and cake for eveybody and fireworks go off with a symphony behind

them starting at around9:30. if you want to check out more activities and beyond, search nbc scene" on the washington app. i'm tommy mcfly, "news4 toay." still ahead, a piece of apollo history. afte a week putting them to use, metro puts an end to r automatic doo technology. we will tell you where. chuck? your gardening forecast for the weekend, both saturday and sunday promise to be filled with otsunshine and plenty h with highs in the 90s and only little chance of rain for the weekend comes up on sunday. you're starting to think about the fall. here is a look at what to do.

z3a5wz z16fz y3a5wy y16fy ood morning, everybody. it's about 4:30 now. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm jummy olabanji in for eun yang. we want to check on your morning commit. >> let's start with storm team 4

meteorologist chuck bell and a look the radar. >> a dry day most of us but a tiny chance of shower or two during the middle part of the afternoon. change air mass. slightly less humid air coming in tomorrow. we switch from soupy to less soupy that change in air mass may be able to ring out a ayraindrop late on tod but not worried about severe weather or any rain chance comes along with be short-lived and low impact and better still all of those rain chances should dry up no later than 7:00 this nieveg. your friday evening plans, dinner on the back porch will not be affectedhe by we today. right now less humid air allowed for cooler weather in shenandoah valley where the sixw and seventh around town. dog walking forecast today. bo here is almost 2 and ready to be adopted and neutered and updated on shots.