>> the big trouble on t baltimore-washington parkway southbound. fortunately a fatal crash overnight and all traffic at this point is having to divert to the outer loop to go south on the baltimore-washington parkway that isos also cl. there is a delay on the beltway in alexandria. ight past eisenhower avenue. overnight work forced the left lane getting by and caed an early delay so far early this morning. back to you. >>> time to cck in on the forecast. tower camera looking towards capitol hill. a fine morning to get outside and spend time in the great outdoors. coolest part of theday, obviously. sun is not up just yet. so far we are getting close to the endf the month of june. it will go down as a warmer and wetter than average month and fa keeping rainll surplus as we finish out june a get into july. about the biggest impt th weather may have on you today is poor air quality. high pressure means the air is stagnated over the region so the pollution is building up so poor air quality code orange. if you have respiratory or cardiac issues you want

. >> traveling s on thethbound lanes baltimore-washington parkway this occurred at midnight and outer loop of thebeway have been diverted. olice are expecting to be out there a while longer. if you're on the outer loop you cnot get this to but folks from the inner loop can get to the outer lanes of the bw paray at this hour. at last check, between kenilworthe avenud exit 23 and 25 and route 1 college park are getting by on the right past milling and paving. >> rick, thank you. >>> let's check up on the forecast. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell, it's thursday morning. how are we looking on this da l >> asng as you like it hot, you'll like the forecast for your thursday. comfortable enough this morning. 70 in loudoun county and 68 in front royal, irginia. 61 clinton, maryland. 76 here in washington. mild enoughtart to the day but 100% sunshine again and that means anotherno after with temperatures going ba0 above 9 degrees. most of the suburbs will be around 91 or 92. downtown locations today closer to 92 or 93 degrees. it's going to stay hot for the o reseeable future. your futur

. >> traveling s on thethbound lanes baltimore-washington parkway this occurred at midnight and outer loop of thebeway have been diverted. olice are expecting to be out there a while longer. if you're on the outer loop you cnot get this to but folks from the inner loop can get to the outer lanes of the bw paray at this hour. at last check, between kenilworthe avenud exit 23 and 25 and route 1 college park are getting by on the right past milling and paving. >> rick, thank you. >>> let's check up on the forecast. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell, it's thursday morning. how are we looking on this da l >> asng as you like it hot, you'll like the forecast for your thursday.

baltimore-washington parkway southbound a live look. you can see all traffic diverts on the outer loop of the beltway. serious accident investigation ongo g. outer loop to the baltimore-washington parkway is closed but inner loop you can go south on the bw parkway and northbound travel unaffected at this particular time. >> jack, thank you. >>> we are working for you this morniut with details abo a federal investigation into that could be impacting your family's food budget. the department of justice is investigating allegations that the top chicken producers e loring production, and sharing data. the allegation datd back to 2008 involve more than a dozen companies including tyson, pilgrim's farms.ansanders and those comps are denying those allegartons. >>> staing next week, restaurants in d.c. could be fined hundre of dollars for giving you a plastic straw. dcs reports the grace period for switching to more environmental friendlstraws is ending. starting on july 1st, d.c.'sde rtment of energy and environment will start issuing fines. re

she was killed in a horrific crash after she was rear ended on the baltimore/washington parkway.t she shouldn't have been out of the house dark. i tell her all the time. >> rerter: bassett was speeding away from the cops from northeast d.c. police chief says it's too earli in theestigation to speculate what led up to the crash. >> it's very concerning, the thisrmation that we have t point. i don't want to prejudge it. we're goi to waintil we information. >> reporter: whileofficers investigate, the suspect is behind bars and brittany's mother remembers her best friend. >> she was a real sweet, real good spirit about her. news4. ari stone, >>> burks, howard university classmates are grieving. they describe her as a hardrk who dreamed about becoming a dentist. >>> still ahead tonight, a scooter scare caught on camera. >> a rider hit and sent flying.i the wld video you'll only see on news4. >>>us a faceoff on the field, congrs convenes on the ball field. who came up on top? >>> pretty good crowd out there. and temperatures wellbove average, 91 degrees today. morrow we go even warmer

breaking news, chopper 4 above a very serious crash shutting down all northbound lanes of the baltimore washington parkwayight. its a real mess out there, folks. andn the last few minutes we have learned someonewas killed in this wreck. >> thts is rig where i-295 andee i-495 min prince george's county. we also sawva med helicopter at the scene just a while ago. we're hearing this might be related to a hit a run crash involving a police vehicle in northeast d.c. sh sho marie is live on the scene. >> i'm here at quarles street and kennal worth avenue. there is a damaged k-9 d.c. police suv. it has four flat tire this is where police believe that this entire ing started. let's rll some video. police say a maroon colored infinity hit the suv causing the flat tires in the 4,500 block of quarles street. that driver sped off. d.c. police were pursuing the suspect on i-295. however, officers called off that pursuit, andat th's when the suspect continued to drive northbound into maryland. he crashed into another vehicle around 9:15 tonight. prince george's county fire officials y one person died on the scene of th

we'll take youo southbound baltimore/washington parkway transition 295 on kettleworth avenue, single file o to the right getting by the work zone. 95 to lorton couple lanes blocked.to back you. >>> a major development on capitol hill. >> former special counselbe rort mueller has agreed to testify in public before two congressional committees next month. >> he is expected to discuss details about his 22-month investigation into russian interference during the 2016pr sidential elections. nearly a month ago, mueller said he would prefer not to testify publicly, but he was subpoenaed. members of the house judiciary icd intelligence committee say the american publdeserves to hear directly from mueller about his investation and conclusions. >> we have the opportunity to flesh out what the russians did, how they d it, what the role of the trump campaign personnel were, what were the counselor intelligence issues, what was the process usedo handle the counterintelligence concerns, where are the findings, all of these questions and a great many many. >> mueller will speak with both the house

. >> traveling s on thethbound lanes baltimore-washington parkway this occurred at midnight and outer have been diverted. olice are expecting to be out there a while longer. if you're on the outer loop you cnot get this to but folks from the inner loop can get to the outer lanes of the bw paray at this hour. at last check, between kenilworthe avenud exit 23 and 25 and route 1 college park are getting by on the right past

criminals used in the attack was developed at taxpayer expense a short drive down the baltimore washington parkway at the national secure. agency according to security experts briefed on this case so this is a parent with in 2017 the n.s.a. lost control of one of their weapons their digital weapons called eternal blue and it was a weapon that basically they weaponized a flaw in of course microsoft a microsoft product and they didn't tell anybody about it but this weapon this eternal blue weapon was either stolen or released by a disgruntled employee the n.s.a. still doesn't know how it got released but it's wreaking havoc to the tune of tens of millions billions of dollars across the world but it's now on domestic soil it's just mind boggling story and the malware that is the weapons grade and developed by intelligence agencies gets out there in the open and is used for a malevolent you know we often fear that the presence of suitcase atomic weapons you know what havoc that could bring and meanwhile we actually have this suitcase portable all thumb drive version of n.s.a. corruptions. malware that

at came to a violent he said on the baltimore-washington parkway. policwere pursuing and the suspect slam in order miss burkes' car. theriver a24-year-old darnell bassett. according to court records, he lives onral street about a block away fromhere this all began. there are a number of investigations going on here. it could be some time before we know exactly wat happened. back to you. >> such a senseless loss. >>> scooters are all over the local streets and one woman is lucky to be alive. >> this is ta crazy video. >>> and a school in shot, the tribute for a be loved oig assistant principal who died. frts . >>> the hea is here. but th. humidity not so mu that is a good thing but you know what is coming. i'll show you how warm things will really gets a wemake our honey, this gig-speed internet is ridiculously fast. we are seriously keeping up with the joneses. keeping up with the ford's. keeping up with the garcia's. the romeros. patels. the wahh-the-wahh wolanske's. right. no one is going to have internet like this. xfinity makes keeping up with t

ghis was alon a stretch of the baltimore washington parkway, near 197 in laurel. northbound lanes of the parkway were closed for some time but reopened. you can see the flames shooting out from the back of thebus. not clear what started that fire. >>> an unbievable scene unfolding in northeast d.c. last night, gunfire on benning road. one of the bullets going right through a window, hitting a woman asleep in her bed. megan mcgrath is live with more from the woman's mother.me an? >> it was a very scary close call for a young wom in northeast. she was at home, asleep in her bed, when a stray bullet from a confrontation that was happening out in the neighborhood went into her bedroom and grazed her he head. you can see the hole in the frame of the window, the bullet traveling inside the second floor bedroom. on the other side of that window, a young woman asleep in her bed was grazed on the head. her mother did not want to be ahown on camera, but she was salinle soepout. >> she say mom, i'mhit, i'm hit. ran into the room and got the rag, put it on her head. >> report

it all happened down here on t southbound lanes of the baltimore/washington parkway here. you can see there's a backup right hhere, t's unrelated. that's for the ramp headed to the beltway, they've cleared the scene here on the bw parkway earlier this morning. we're getting more information about the pedestrians who was killed. he's been identified as 52-year-old mark johnson senior of baltimore, maryland. here's the video from earlier this morning. you can see how all the southbound lanes on the parkway were closed. allche trafas detoured on to the beltway, and police are still looking for the driver or drivers who hit mr.johnson. hit and killed him. the latest information is that it appears he was hit more than once. none of the drivers stayed on the scene. so all of them were gone by thei time arrived. now, it is unclear why johnson was on the parkway at that hour. it was about 11:30 la night. there was not a disabled car or a work zone in the area, that wasn't it. they don't know why he was on the side of the road here, what he was doing there. now, they do have broken

that came to a violent end monday night on the baltimore-washington parkway. 27-year-old brittany burkes killed in that horrific crash. she was in her honda crv on the side of the road when her car was rear ended by a man speeding away from the cops. brittany burkes, pronounced dead at the scene. she was a third year student at howard university dental school. she was from amhurst new york near buffalo. this is her friend. >> i'm very surprised. and shocked to know that something would happen to someone so nice, so kind. >> reporter: this all beyn monda night in the 4500 block northeast.treet in a car struck a police vehicle and then kept on going. police began a pursuit. the suspect speeds away on to the bw parkway and then slamsmio the side of the road. the driver is identifie as 24-year-old darnell bassett. according to cocrt reds, he lives on coral street about a block away from where this all began. remember yesterday they called it a follow, today police are calling it a pursuit. and the question is, did that pursuit contribute to ts fatal accident which brings me out here to this

. >> we have seen a real improvement here on th baltimore-washington parkway in last 45 minutes or so take a live look here. you can see these are the southbound lanes that we are looking down on right now. they had been closed. closed for several hours, but they opened up aroun 6:00 this morning and you can see that the delays in the area have dissipated nicely. we have got traffic pretty much running at speeds through the area. that was not the case earlier. take a look at the video shot ni early this m. we had a fatal hit and run pedestrian accident here on the southbound side that happened between1:30 and 12:00 last night. all of the traffic was forced on the northbound side of the beltway and that was the case fothe beginning of rush hour this morning. we saw significant delays in the area. 6:00 or so, that is wheny the reopened all of those lanes and actually things have cleared up nicely. i guess summertime maybe the volume is a little lighter than usual but we are now seeing traffic running at speed now. in terms of that accident, they are still looking for the driveo whtruck

the suspect took oh from t place and sped down the baltimore-washington parkway and ended up l near the innerp. pat collins is back where it all began in northwest d.c. pat, tell us all about this? leon, this is where it started the intersection of quarles street and kenworth avenue in northeast. a car hits a police vehicle and then takes off. policet st what they call a follow. the car goes on to the bw dark parkway and gets involved if had a fatal accident. a woman just on the sidef the road gets hit and killed right there on the bw-parkway. now, sheas not been officially identified, but we found some interesting things at tda scene to the bw-parkway, scene of the crash, a serious find. notes that appeared to have come from a dental school and items that appear to be used by a dentist. the victim in the crash described as a woman iner 20s. her crv car stopped on the a shoulder red suddenly by a man on the run from police. the victim's car broke apart by the collision. the victim pronounced dead at the scene. the parkway northbound lanes shut down for about five hours.e this is tspot,

. >>> now to yet another tragedy on our baltimore-washington parkway. >> this time a father of five was killed by a hit-and-run driver. mark johnson sr. was walking to a gas station last night when he wasd sudly struck. >> his car had run out of gas near the ramp to the beltway. news 4's darcy spencer smoke to his wife and son today about ible loss. >> reporter: he just didn't deserve to die that way. >> reporter: angela lost the husbandnd a father to their five sons and high school sweetheart. >> i need you to listen to me and remain calm, okay. >> reporter: she had to break the news to her sons th their dad is nevuter cong ofmi gas on the bw parkwaywednesday night. his family says he was walking to a gas station when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver. >> the person without a soul, with no regard for human life, and i would ask that person put yourself in our shoes. what if it was your father, hour brother? > reporter: he had his own plumbing business and was on his way to an emergency call when he got stranded. >> unfortunately we're here now because some coward decided to e side

. >> now to yet another tragedy on the baltimore-washington parkway. this time a father of five killed by a hit-and-run diver. mark johnson sr. was out walking to a gas station when he was suddenly struck on the road. news 4's darcy spencer spoke with johnson's wife and son about their unbelievables lo >> reporter: mark johansson sr. was a husband, father and grandfather. he was also a plummer. he waswe working esday night when he ran out of gags on the bw parkway in green belt. his family says he took off walking to find the closest gas station, and that's when he was struck and killed. the driver didn't stop. >> i d't wntynamae, m just an incident, another hit and run on the bw pkway. his name was mark johnson sr., and he has a loving family, wife, kids, grand a kids who want to see his killer brought to justice. >> reporter: johnson was 52 years old, the father to five sons. he had 13 grandchildren. he had his own plumbing business. in ft, he was his way to an emergency call when he got stranded. >> unfortunately which ear here rdw because some c de

baltimore. the bishops are under pressure to pass reforms folling multiple sex abuse scandals. dozens of archdiocese includinge washington arnder investigation for the handling of allegations of abuse by priests. >>> one lane on northbound gw parkwayieefinitely. thational parks service is working to a long-term fix for the sinkhole that opened up last month. crews are having trouble coming up with a permanent solution that would prevent another collapse. there's no timeline for when the repairs would happen. >>> news4's working 4 you in the community with news of a kickoff of a summer food program in loudoun county. >> it feeds students who rely free or reduced priced meals during the school year but often go hungry during the summer. at the sterling labor site students end one more than a omach. >> we'll have around nine other sites this summer where students can come out and enjoy meals. there's noel eligibility. woe -- no eligibility. w >> the kids came last year got library cards and became members, we see them yearun ro >> you can get the location of summer food programs i your area no matter where you live by searching "summer food" in the nbc washington app. i think that's an important reminder that some students who use th