four houses in a row on milstead drive in ashburn. the two in the middle, a complete loss. >> through the back. so it's just a total destruction. totally has to be taken down and replaced. >> his son owns this home. he's working out of the country. so the house was empty. >> it's not as bad as it could oe. thank god nob was hurt, there. was no possessions in the house. >> the house next door, they weren't so lucky. the residents were also away, t theirbelongings, including a car were inside the burning home. just the -- the neighbor across the street -- >> the roof was on fire everywhere. both houses. it was scary. >> the 911alls began coming in just after 3:30 this morning. investigators blieve the fire started in one house and spread to the others. a drone was brought in to get a bird's eye view of the damage. but the cause is still unknown. >>> now, one firefighter was injured. he apparently got a burn to his neck. he's going to bey. not a serious injury here. a lot of damage and a lot of work to be done as investigators try to fig

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, live for us in ashburn.ank you. >>> we turn now to decision 2020 and a look at last night's democratic presidential debate. ten of the candidates hoping e secure party's nomination were on the stage for the first night of another two-night event. >> immigration, gun control and president trump's fitness for office were all discussed, but once again, the issue of health care cauitd a spl amongst the candidates. news 4 jummy is here to break it down for us. good morning. >> good morning to you. we know health care is a big thing among many voters. and those ten candidates agreed that health care should be a rightand not a privilege. they want every american, they say, to be covered, but when it comes down to the discussion on how to that, the candidates seem divided into two groups. the first group suggests a medicare for all plan. ofyou probably heard that before, which would eliminate private insurance and put everyone on the same government-r plan. then there was the second group of democrats that believes

. >>> right now investigators are trying to figure out what caused a massive fire in ashburn.it damaged numerous homes. >> reporr: chopper 4 shows the extent of the damage, four houses all in a row on mill stred drive in ashburn. the two in the middle, complete loss. >> the back doesn't exist, the roof doesn't exist. it's a total destruction. >> his son owns this home. he was working out of the country.ot > it's n as bad as it could be. thank god nobody was in there. they didn't have any possessions in the house. >> reporter: next doorthey weren't so lucky. their belongings including a car were inside the bushing home.es jess liv across the street. >> both homes were on fire. it was scary. >> reporter: the 911 calls began cominin just after 3:30 this morning. investigars believe the fire started in one house and then spread to another. a drone was brought in to get a bird's-eye view of the damage, but the cause is still unknown. one firefighter was burned on the neck while battling the blaze, but he's said to be okay. in ashburn, megan mcgrath, "news4." >>> the s severerm thre

back to yoot >> a of people impacted there megan mcgrath live in ashburn, virginia.ank you. >>> 5:49 now. drama played out on capitol hill during a confirmation hearing for general john eighten. he's the man president trump nominated to take over the second highest position in the u.s. military. >> general heighten was accused of sexual assault two years ago but yesterday he once denied those allegations while his accuser sat in the oom. army kernel katherine spoke afterwards. she accused him once again of lying. a lengthy air force investigation found insufficient evidence to charge the generalt buhose same investigators also found no eviden that she was lying. >> i want to state to you and to the american people in the strongest possible terms that these allegations are false. >> ttom line is he lied about sexually assaulting me. >> senator mcsally, former fighter pilot and sexual assault survivor herself says she supportsl.he genera the committee could vote by the endthe week. >>> we are working for you and staying on top of that capital one data breach about 100

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host: our next caller is out of ashburn, virginia, republican. caller: good talking to you guys and thank you for having me on. my comment is about the border. can we agree that five years ago, the majority of migrants that were migrating to the united states were men and not family units? theythey had the -- when had the detention centers down there, they were better equipped because we did not have that many people coming in. , thee have this influx crisis we are talking about and i think we can agree, we are not equipped to have family units. when you have thousands coming in by the day, what do you expect for them to do? when they don't have money, they are just not equipped. we could put up a tent city overnight but to build , just for them to be in the condition that it is a good condition to bring children and mothers and pregnant women, we just don't have the facilities to do that. there are too many people coming across. host: thank you for the call. guest: i have been the medical director for tens of thousands of haitians after the most

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that is the latest from ashburn, back into you. >>> lauryn ricketts is with us to talk abouthe weatheraned up nicely today compared to a couple of days ago. >> i cleaned up nice compared to -- well, thank you. [ laughter ] a mess. u're >> i know, i'm a hot mess. for yes, weather is nice the clean-up effort. is that what you're trying to say. >> let's go with that. >> i'll take it from here, aaron. a beautiful day out there. you're right.nd gorgeous coions and blue skies out there. that is not going to continue. in fact, changes come tomorrow. we're sunny and hot toda a touch of humidity. it is bearable. similar to yesterday. now we do have the thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon through tomorrow evening. stray showers possible on friday. but i do believe we dry out and then by saturday we're back to the sunny conditions and hot conditions. temperatures out here right now in the 80s. low to mid-80s acro the board. and again you factor in the humidity and it may feel like 83, 84. but not a big difference. 89 degrees is our day time high whis about normal for this time of the year. heading i

heads up around the sterling area over towards ashburn. this one east of manovsas towards wood bridge and another one towards fairfax county and a new severe thunderstorm warning. this is brand new. northern fauquier county nd this loiudoun county and north william county. this is most likely going to be until 7 sack and i just want to show that for you. i want to make sure that this is until 7 sack tonight. this is exactly wh we're looking at. there it is. until 7 sack. another severe thunderstorm ng warni loudoun county, fauquier county and western prince william county for the potential of o60-mile-per-h winds. gosh, we'll continue to watch this for you tonight and any more of that goose severe we'lw h it right here in the storm center. >> thank you, doug. arizona's governor is threatening to pull financi incentives for nike which has been planning to put a manufacturing plant in that rking to ause it's pull a line for sneakers. >> this is all centered around these red, white and blue sneakershat feature the country's first flag, the be

middletown, rain is moving tprobably already range a your house and up towards leesburg and ashburn area. this is a wired picture showing what's a trough of low pressure meaning a better chance of storms tomorrow, some strong, possibly severe. i'll take you hour by hour emsin like we're covering a different data breach every week, than new one is a big one. call tapne is apologizing today to consumers after a hacker compromised the personal information of 106 million op pe. >> yeah this, case is among the largest security breaches of an american financialon instituti ever. nbc has the latest on the breach and the woman facing charges tonight. >> reporter: capital one working to notify more than 100 million credit card applicants in the u.ho and canada w personal information may have been i exposedthe latest massive data breach. >> this is the eighth largest data breach in terms of sheer number of accounts compromised. >> 33-year-old page thompson, a recall foresoftware engineer, is in federal custody charged with computertraud and abuse authorities say she accessed data through a server

host: our next caller is out of ashburn, virginia, republican.ler: good talking to you guys and thank you for having me on. my comment is about the border. can we agree that five years ago, the majority of migrants that were migrating to the united states were men and not family units? theythey had the -- when had the detention centers down there, they were better equipped because we did not have that many people coming in. , thee have this influx crisis we are talking about and i think we can agree, we are not equipped to have family units. when you have thousands coming in by the day, what do you expect for them to do? when they don't have money, they are just not equipped. we could put up a tent city overnight but to build , just for them to be in the condition that it is a good condition to bring children and mothers and pregnant women, we just don't have the facilities to do that. there are too many people coming across. host: thank you for the call. guest: i have been the medical director for tens of thousands of haitians after the most dev

chopper 4 flew over the scene in ashburn, mill steaddrive. in at 3:00, no one was home at the time. one firefighter suffered a burn to his neck. >>> in montgomery countys there waome scary moments after a fire broke out at safe way on georgia avenue in silver spring. no one was hurt. let's check on the roads with g.ghan markle and first4traffic. melissa, good morn >> taking a look, inner loop and outer loop looking a lot better than a couple minutes ago. we had some problems on the outer loop. that has now cleared out of the way in prince george's. fredericksburg northbod 59 after 17, left side blo aed by crash there. on 270 southbound, a crash. >> melissa, thank you. >>> today is a weather alert today. we'll check your forecast when we >>> good morning. i'm storm team4 meteorologist chuck bell. storm team4 weather alert today. there is a risk for strong to se beg as early as 1:00 or 2:00 this afternoon but likely going to impact your evening commute. for now just rain out across parts of the mountains of west virginia. again, that will turn

. >> shonda is next out of ashburn, virginia. republican. good morning. >> good morning. this is shonda. thanks for having me on. my comment is about the border. can we all agree that five years ago the majority of migrants, immigrants migrating to the you state were men and not family units? when the detention centers were down there, we were better equipped because we didn't have that many people comeing in. now we have this influx, the crisis we are all talking about, and i think we can all agree on, we're not equipped to have family units. when you have thousands coming in by the day, what do you expect for them to -- what kind of conditions when they don't have money? they're just not equipped. we could put up a tent city overnight. to build facilities that are -- i mean, just for them to be in the condition that it's a good condition to bring children and mothers and pregnant women. we just don't have the facilities to do that. there are too many people coming across. >> thanks for the call. congressman? >> yeah. so i have been a medical director for tens of thousan