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. go to humane rescue analli.org

to adopt bo. the pavemenot will be h late on the afternoon, jack. >> don't want to burn the pad. blank you, sir. eastbound span ock you find the ride are crews working on overhead traffic signals. been some sort of an issue to westbound span had been running two ver two-way traffic. canal road is still blocked from monday's storm with a sinkhole repair. we ha new details into a rape of a woman on a met platform. >> this morning, we know the suspect is custody in the district awaiting extradition near maryland. the victim told police the

assault happened at the ly chevierstation. the suspect is charged with first-degree rape. fairfax county county health official are investigating what caused dozens of seniors living in a community to become sick. the outbreak happened over the past 11 days at grnspring retirement community in sprifield. nearlyen 20 people have be rushed to the hospital. two residents have decide after suffering from respiratory symptoms and the deaths have not been l tked yet tohis outbreak.gr enspring says they have taken several steps to control the illness and stop it from spreading. 33-year-old clifton telfair was shot several times and left lying on north capital street in northwest wabohington. found just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. no motive for the killing is known. happening today, a memoriall

service be held for zoe spears. she is one of two transgender women killed this yearth i same prince george's county neighborhood. >> she was killed in fairmont heights. this morning's service begins with a viewing at 10:00. it's taking place on ridge street northwest. zoe was 23 years old. > watching and waiting. this morning, millions of people remain in the path of tropical storm barry, a major system that is only growing in strength as it travels across the gulf. the storm is bringing strong wind and plenty ofrain. governor of louisiana expects up to 15 inches of rain may fall in some area. there are concerns the mississippi river which is already higher than normal may reach its highest level since 1950. not everybody is leaving. plenty of people have spent the past week s piling updbags and

boarding up windows and buying you enough supply to last them three days. the trial for sean urbanski has been delayed until december. he is accused of killing a man in 2017. court record show the judge delayed this this. a tree crashing down on this man's home. a sky light was shattered and glass sent flying everywhere. the living room was left a mess but no one was hurt. some in the neighbhood fear other trees may come down because of all of the rain. this morning, police are men ng to identify the two killed yesterday when they were hit by an suv while on a park bench in downtown d.c. both of the victims appear to have been sleeping on that bench at the time. the driver of the suv was taken to thspital with ny.life-threatening injur police have not decided whether

to file charges. r. kelly has once again been arrested in chicago. he is facing new charges on sexual abuse. this time with agents with homeland security security and nypd were the one h taki in to custody. it is expected that kelly will be eradited to new york city. the former university of southern california doctorcu acsed of sexually abusing hundreds of women is expected in court today. gege tynedal pleaded not guilty earlier this year. his accusers said they were inappropriately touched and photographed at the campus health center. he faces up to 53 years in prison if he is convict. a terrifying incident in the skiess a stark reminder to always wear your seat belt while flying. severe turbulence sent passengers flying a flight from vancouver to australia. dozens of people on t boardhat air canada flight 33 were treated for injury after the plane was forced to divert to

hawaii. the plane was carrying about 300 people and it landed safely in honolulu. we are quickly approaching r the annivry of the lunar landing and now you can bid on a piece of that history. >> this is the apollo 11 lunar module time line book. the book they used to navigatet he surface of the moon 50 years ago. if you want it you can bid for auction on july 20th at christi's in new york.e on of 200 items related to space exploration going up for sale. that book id sai to have moon dust as well. it's expected to take in $7 andi $9 ion for that little piece of history. >> pretty cool. speaking of history. this weekend serena williams may land herself in the record books. she is heading into her 11th wimble finals. at 37 years old she is the an

oldest grd slam finalist in the open era. if she wins this weekend she will secure her eighth title which will be her 24th open victory. a potentially game changing treatment for anybody with knee pain plus the easy thing you can do each day to lower your cholesterol and blood pressure and maybe drop a few pound.ne "ws4 today" will be right back. good morning. all this week we are working to save you money on groceries and today we are answering your questions to save you even more! from grocery delivery service to curbside pickup to finding the best prices on everyday items. get

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the u.s.in coast guard taken june. the sub was expected to be loaded up with drugs. agents eventually caught up to it and the man inside gave himself up. cocaine and marijuana were di scovered. i think the egmhing is the coast guard jumped out of the ine and the subm banging on the hatch. >> ripping the door right off. this morning we are working with your health with word of new technologyhat may help bring relief from any of you suffering from knee pain. >> dorothy suffered knee pain while ruing for a marathon. her orthopaedic surgeon was able to repair the carlage. in the past places like thisre weearly impossible. doctors say it's better to fix thecu menis rather than removing it so you can prevent future surgeries years later. >> i can only imagine what wuld ave happened if i had not had

the surgery. i probably needed a knee replacement. >> is there a drawback. a longer recovery time. six weeks on crutches and wear a brace so the delicate tissue can both heal. up to five months for patient to return toor nal activity. new research from duke university suggests cutting 300 calories out of yourac diet e day can help your heart. 200 adults were tracked each day two year and those two reduced calories lost weight ands improeir heart rate. 300 calories is the same as 30 oreos and two bag of potato chips. that should be easy, right? let's turn to chuck bell. >> the fact we call a serving size, no matter how many are in the bag! car wash forecast today.

a tiny chance for a raindrop.he dry for teekend so maybe do it then. good morning, jack taylor. canal rsead is c once again this morning so plan for what you did yesterday. reservoir and foxhall is blocked so you'll be rerted in the damage they can repair from monday's storm. president trump reveals his new strategy on getting that

after weeksliof batt court and his critics, president trump has abandoned his effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. he has assured his supporters his fight is not over. >> a promise that his administration would, quote, leave no stone unturned in its effort to determine the

citizenship of every single person in the country. we are joined by sarah on capitol hill. what is the president's plan moving forward? >> reporter: the president backing off the initial plan but not down h from fight. he has now issued a executive order to federal agencies to compile citizenship information fromady existing ining databas and incding the department of homeland security. ritics argued putting a citizenip question on the census would have a chilling effect and immigrants would be too afraid to respond and undercut the count of people living in certain districts. both of these moves prompting fear in migrant communities, as well as reassuring the

president's base he is oontinuing his fight against illegal immigra back to you. >> sarah dallof on the field, thank you. the house judiary committee has approved a new batch of subpoenas. jared kusher and jeff sions are on that list. also included is former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and john kelly and corey lewandowski. a david pecker is also on this list.

jaeffrey epstein's lawyers have come up with plan to keep him out of jail while he is facing sex trafficking charges. he has been in jail since his arrest on saturday and prosecutors want to keep him there. they say he is a flight risk. a lawyer's bond proposal includes home detention with electroniconitoring and a court-appointed trust that would live with epstein in his mansion in new york city automatic door operation of the metro line ve been spanneded indefinitely. it was reported that doors re opening properly at most station but also unexpectedly closing automatically. metro is trying to figure out what was happening. the montgomery county school district saysit is suffering from a lack of substitute teachers but created a plan to fig that problem accordin our news partners at wtop.

they will change hiring requirements. instead of asking all potential subs have a bachelor's degree anyone with an associate's degree or 60 hour of college credit will be considered. the bning of july and summer vacation is in full swing for students all over the d.c. bregion. >>ut some of them aren't spending their days at the beach. they are spending them in the books. news4 chris gordon explains. >> reporter: school buses arrive at the start of the newyechool . you heard right. this is not summer school. these students are being welcomed back after a short summer break. two montgomery county elementary schools in silver spring are testing this extended shool year pilot program. >> only bad thing is that we can't go on a family vacation but it's good to get a against the other kid that have not started yet. >> reporter: this is a title 1 school and means high number of kids from low income families. the extended school year program

is meant to increase their performance in literacy and imagi imagine. they will serve a pents and teachers here to determine if the stinextended school year sh be introduced in other schools in the future. reporting from silver spring, chris gordon, news4. old town alexandria has been forced to close up shop after flash floods caused damage. they are trying to get thing back in order but they have a long road ahead. she says two inches of standing water in that store and all of the carpeting needs to be replaced. the water reached more than 300 books about to be donated to a local charity. e i'm sure the store will survive because wve a very loving community. all we have gotten are best wishes, offers to volunteer

time. >> the good news here is thee stn insured so damage should be covered. >> hopefully theyet back open soon. sadr to see 300 bookned. >> they were put on the floor because they were supposed to be picked up on sundayo fortion and the pickup wasn't there on time and they were still there with when the rain started. >>new orleans is in for a deluge of rain. keep that in mind they had 10 inches of rain the day before yesterday. >> my gosh. >> not a part of barry.r is the latest on barry. a tropical storm for now. probably become a category 1 hurricane just before landfall. again, it's very important to remind folks don't focusn the category number. the old saying you run from the wind but you hide -- you hide in from the w but you run from the water. this is going to be a humongous rain event across all of

southern louisiana and the gulf coast. if you had weekend travel plans from houston to pensacola you may want toreconsider making those travel plans to the gulf coast this weekend, especially mobile, e going to mississippi gulf coast, or new orleans. they are going to take it on the chin from this storm. hurricane or not, rainfaam nts here in central louisiana and the new orleans area could exceed 15 to 20 inches of rain between now and about the end of the day on sunday. this is a huge inundation problem along the coastline. the mississippi river is already near flood stage. it's expected to potentially be as high ast has been the last 70 years. the storm is probably a minimal category 1 hurricane and minimal in the sense from the wind. the category only measures wind speed. this is going to be a big problem for them. the moisturerom whatever is left of barry will eventually i think come in our general direction and probably not worry about that here until wednesday,

thursday, friday of next week. a long way to go between now and then. your friday forecast, 73 now. a fair number of clouds outside. cool in the shenandoah valley and cooler air and more humid air will settle in during the course of the afternoon as wego from the humid to the slightly less humid air mass and might be wo rain ring out one or showers or two and rain chances only 20%. hot for the weekend. saturday not as humid as sunday. cunday the humidity starts to creep ba future weather today, as small as the rain chances are they exist between 2:00 and 6:00 th evening. mostly in and around the d.c. metro area and points south. think maryland in the clear and shenandoah valley but maybe a stray ten to 15-minute rain shower. no severe weather to worry about today. >>

here is the impact canal road is closed once again this morning so plan ahead. closed between reservoir and foxhall from monday's storms. unfortunately we got a little bit of the roadway that washed away s you'll find extra volume arizona and macarthur and george washington parkway. tter news 506 at the bay bridge the traffic signals have apparently been mixed and traffic is movinggain on east and westbound span. 4yo3 now. if love guacamole, expect to pay more. the price ofad avocos has spiked

due to short supply. it's double the price when compared to this time last year expertsy the wholesale prices of after vavocados has gone up passed on to the consumer. more older teens are using eir summer vacation to improve thir college resume. the number of teens that enroll in summer courses and volunteer programs has gone up significantly. >> you can only learn so much in a classroom about how to tually work. in many cases, those first jobs hae really important at teaching skills t supplement classroom education but can't replace it. >> many businesses have shifted their recruiting tactics and they are now bringing younger workers into the fold and older teens become less available. still ahead. under arrest again.

the new charges r&b singer r. kelly faces and why he may face extradition. >> a restaurant explode in the middle of the night and investigation begins how to find out why. stay with us. ♪

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anothound of strong storms bringing a tree down on a how in maryland. but some weekend rain relief could be moving in just in time. >> no breaks for people down at the gulf. a hurricane warning is in effect in louisiana. singer r. kelly facing new federal sex crime charges and find out why he'll be brought to oow yorkor this case. gmorning, everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. we want to welcome jummy molabanji to theorning team! she is filling in for eun yang today but your first day on the air with us as a new member of the aheam. >> >> so far, so good. >> so far, so good. glad to be home. you know? trying to get usedhe to schedule again. i've been working nights for a while. >> you were at our sister station in new york for a couple

of years. >> yes and i decide to do come back home. >> glad to have you back and happy to have you here. too let's turn to a familiar face. wtop jack taylor is tracking your commute in the morning. >> we want to start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. are we done with the severe rain out there? >> we are done with the severe chance, jummy but a chance for a rained later today. movet of us won't h to worry about rain today and i don't think anybody has to worry about rain around here for the weekend. welcome new. still cloudy outside this morning. 73 degrees in the washington area. what you need to know about the forecast. a beautiful morning but plenty of humidity hanging around for now. that will lead to that isolatedn rain ch today. we are keeping a close eye on tropical storm barry. more about that coming up later on in the hour. for now, a few rained up here in the mountains of west virginia. not a whole lot out there but they are in tcative of fact there at least be an opportunity for a stray shower today. temperatures six out north and west but mostls low 70 around

the i-95 corridor. future weather brings that tiny chance for a quick little shower or two between 3:0hiand 5:00 ts afternoon. l,t a big impact and most important of al no severe weather threat today. high temperature 89 degrees.he what about t friday commute, jack taylor? what are you working on? plan ahead like yesterday. canal road remains closed setween reservoir and foxhall. road was compro from monday's storms and yesterday didn't do any favors so plan ahead for that as well. detours around it. so find arizona avenue, macarthur stacked up and maybe george washington with more traffic. with that flooding from monday's storms, we have a couple of closures here.