. >> and i'm chris lawrence. sheena sort of alluded to it. it's only going to heat up from here. >> and sheena parveen talking about the chance for storms. 85 is the current temperature. with the humidity thanks to that south wind, it actually feels like 93 outside. at this hour it already feels about ten degrees warmer. look at the rest of the area. so by 4:00 william is where we should be bosh we'll still be warm at 7:00, but we'll be getting hotter as we go through this week. that's not even going to come with rain relief. a look ahead after your week is coming up. >>> you may have smelled smoke if you came down 16th street. this is why. a house in mount pleasant caught fire. firefighters says it spread from the barometric through the walls of the house. one firefighters was taken to the hospital. that person wasn't seriously hurt. firefighters did not say exactly how it started. >>> then another fire caused this damage in clarks burg, maryland this morning the fire start started. >> and no one in who lives what was hurt -- >> right now an

chris lawrence is in our newsroom to tell us what happens now. chris. >> well, wendy, some republicans have suggested plan c, bite the bullet and work with democrats to fix what's broken. now, they failed short of getting the votes to replace or repeal the affordable care act and president trump seems to be let obama care fail. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, isn't ready to give up just yet. it says he will call to repeal the law. he said it will include a two-year transition period, allowing time to work out a new plan. but three republican senators oppose that option, including west virginia's shelly capito. despite the gop control both houses of congress and the white house, president trump is blaming democrats. >> we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own democrats will come to us and then they'll say, how do we fix it. >> the time has come for the republican colleagues to take us on our offer of working together. we can work together to lower premiums. we can work together

chris lawrence is in our newsroom, now, with details. what do you know, chris? >> he's being treated in the intensive care unit at the hospital. steve scalise because doctors were worried about a possible infection. he was one of four people shot and wounded last month. scalise got the worst of him. the bullet vessels, paramedics rushed him to the icu and he stayed there until june 23rd. the congressman had several surgeries. the most recent update from last night, it left scalise in serious condition, it promised to give an update at some point today. now, the responding officers did shoot and kill the man who slot scalise and the three other who were wounded have all now been released from the hospital. >> thank you, chris. >>> congress returns to washington next week, but it will likely be a while moves on health care. politico reports this evening, any vote on the gop measure to repeal and replace obama care won't happen until the week after at the earliest. cbo is reviewing the latest legislation by mitch mcconnell, more than half a dozen republican senator

chris lawrence is at the white house gathering more information about this. chris what happened and what's going to happen next for this white house? >> yeah right now we're watching the unfolding drama, anthony out after just ten days on the white house staff. i want to take you now to the white house briefing room and we can take a live look in the briefing was suppose to get started about 15 minutes ago. it has not started yet. okay, i'm told we don't have the live picture. but basically what they're going to talk about hopefully is how and why the communications director was forced out of his job. look. when he took the job, anthony said he would report directly to president trump, not the chief of staff at the time reince priebus, then he did an interview, basically, using vulgar terms to describe priebus and strategist steve bannon accusing priebus o damaging information. priebus obviously was ousted and the president named the homeland security director as his new chief of staff, john kelly was sworn in today. can tell you general kelly served more than

chris lawrence is in the newsroom with more on the white house ceremony. chris. >> these are the men and women who put their lives on the line and had to make split-second decisions to protect the people on that baseball field. >> despite being shot, special agent griner placed herself in mortal danger to save the lives of members of congress. >> the president recognized crystal griner for her compose sure, bravery. she and special agent david bailey received the medal of valor along with three alexandria police officers. the agents were assigned to protect representative steve scalise were there on the field when the shooting started. alexandria officers arrived within minutes, alex fired back with the shooter down. >> great people. congratulations to all of you. we are forever >> representatives scalise has gone through several surgeries. just yesterday doctors released him from med star hospital. he's starting an inpatient rehabilitation program. erica. >> we'll stay on this story for a bit this afternoon. this afternoon senate passed a bill to expand th

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence, leon, back to you. >> thank you, chris. >>> look now at today's top stories. florida truck driver faces the death penalty or life in prison. he was charged today with illegally transporting scores of immigrants, including children. the truck was found in texas. ten people inside of it died and investigators think there may have been 100 people in that truck at one point. it's not where the truck started its journey or where it was headed. >>> terminally ill british baby may not live to see his first birthday next week. they're not dropping their legal bid to bring him to the united states for experimental treatment. that was a fight that was backed by the pope and by president trump. guard suffers from a rare genetic condition, he breathe or move on his own. the window of opportunity to help him has passed. he is to be taken off life support this week. >>> senior white house adviser told reporters he has done nothing wrong and he did not collude with russia during the election. kushner volunteered to be questioned by the senate intelligence commit

. >>> chris lawrence here at the live desk where we've just learned that detectives now have a lead on the people who went on a paint ball shooting spree in southeast dc. take a look. we just got our hands on these photos. this is what dc police are looking for. a silver or tan ford but can't make out the license plate and here is the damage that it did. this car was apparently going through neighborhoods in southeast dc around 11:00 in the morning on tuesday, shooting at electricians, construction workers, one man was cutting his neighbor's lawn, even a woman working a hot dog stand. some of the victims say, those paint balls, they stung, they hurt and police have been looking for the people who did it, again, now they have these two cars one car, i should say, they're starting to identify who owns it and if it's related to this shooting spree. live desk, krins lawrenchris la 4. >>> other top stories, chit poet lay is -- chipotle is not serving dinner tonight. several customers became sick over the weekend. some of them went to the hospital with stomach cramps. sickness has been repor

chris lawrence spoke with a local wife and mother to bring us this side of the story. >> her name is amanda brewer married to a soldier. they have six children including jennifer, a teenager transitioning fromal female. what was it like for you when you saw this tweet? >> it's like i just lost it. she looked and is like how long is it going to be before i don't have to go march or stand or talk i am just allowed to be? i was like honey, i wish i had an answer for you. in one tweet he can literally ruin your life. >> amanda says she tried to get treatment in children's hospital in a specialized clinic that works with lgbtq kids. tricare wouldn't cover it and jennifer had a rough go of it at school. amanda thinks getting the treatment is what turned it around for her daughter. she is worried about jennifer losing coverage and the transgender service members who have been suddenly singled out. >> where do they stand right now? >> most of them a the percentage of americans who just sign up to serve in the military is such a small amount of people compared to the overall population and th

she told our chris lawrence she was in the car with her kids this morning when they heard about the new ban. >> read me the tweets and i instantly started crying. he is like what does that mean? i was like that means that these people aren't allowed to serve. they are not allowed to get health care and that means we are one tweet away from your sister not getting to see the doctor. >> her family lives in alexandria and depends on the military's health care system for jennifer's treatments. >>> a disturbing crime on a popular bike path in the district. a man and his dog were shot and killed and the gunman is still out there. the river walk trail in northeast d.c. turned into a pat collins joins us live with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: a man shot to death, a dog shot to death. what led to all the blood shed on this popular path? we are going to begin our story now with captain anthony hague. >> officers arrived on the scene and discovered an adult, black male, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds cht. >> reporter: the murder scene, the bike trail as it runs through the

chris lawrence is here to explain. >> one company has invented an entirely new agent and they claim not only does it put out 75% less noise but other benefits, as well. that is why it is called revolutionary. today they brought pure powered gear to capitol hill. on top of running much quieter than average jet engine claims it burns 16% less fuel and cuts emiss if that wasn't enough new engine is made here in america. >> this week the president has announced that this is make it in america week. there is no better example of american technology, american workforce, american productivity and efficiency than the men and women -- >> congressman john larsson does have a defendant rooting interest considering it is built in his district. in the next three years the company expects to more than double production of the engine and components and those orders could produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 new jobs. >> thank you. >>> it's hot, really hot. we know, but is it hot enough to wear sandals or flip-flops to work? >> yes. >> the "new york times" created a buzz when it asked that q

report that details the police response to the thousands of protests the city has seen in the last chris lawrence here with a look at the new numbers. >> we have been pouring through this new report. it looks at all the marches and protests d.c. police have been monitoring for the past three years. the first thing that really jumps out at you is the growing number of demonstrations. 439 marches back in 2014. and then look at this. just a year later that went up to more than 770. we know 2016 was an election year. you would expect some increase. look at this. it jumps up to more than 1,200 marches. these numbers do not include demonstrations that are being monitored by the park or capitol hill police officers. now, it is hard to forget some of the scenes, demonstrations we saw earlier this year during the inauguration. now we are learning more about who arrested all of those people. when you take a look at this day alone somewhere on the neighborhood of 235 people. in the report the police chief says officers in riot gear only responded to what he calls criminal riots like the demonstrations that

chris lawrence is live in the news room. >> some have started bringing up 25th amendment since president trump put out a number of controversial tweets. it's the part of the constitution that deals with removing the president from office section four allows the vice president to become acting president with the consent among majority of cabinet members and then two-thirds of both the house and senate. a maryland congressman wants to use it in case president trump needs to be permanently removed from office. the bill was introduced to make it easier to examine the president's mental state. commission to examine the president and evaluate his mental faculties. >> we are talking about a body that is nonpartisan and independent and acts with the vice president who is reporting directly to the president. it would be in the most extreme case where there is consensus that the president is incapable of discharging duties of office. >> more than 20 democratic lawmakers have signed on to the bill. with republicans controlling congress and the white house this effort is not going anywhere, somewher

prisoner was on the run for a couple of hours, the latest news they got him, at the live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. >>> a cab driver plowed into a crowd and left ten people hurt. the injuries range from minor to serious. it happened near the cab pool near logan international airport. police source says the incident not an act of terrorism, appears to be an accident. it shows the taxi next to a building surrounded by debris and picnic table as emergency crews take people on stretches to ambulances nearby. >>> traffic is inching are crews are working to clean up after a crash. the tractor-trailer lost its load and started leaking fuel there on the road there, as well. this happened between connecticut and georgia avenue accidents. the driver was hurt and taken off to the hospital. no word on his condition at this it could still take a while longer to get that mess cleaned up. >>> now, turned in to the forecast, it is hot out there and might see some storms popping up tomorrow right around the time of the fireworks. >> storm team 4, meteorologist draper is on the weather deck, you're tracking

at the live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. >> we've declared tomorrow a weather alert day. we'll go to amelia draper who is in the storm center, pretty busy day for you guys. >> doug picked a great week to have off, unfortunately not the best weather at the beach. if you've been on social media, today, you've seen this, the word is getting out. make sure i've posted about this, make sure you're sharing this with your friends and family so they're aware what's happening. the national weather service has this begins tomorrow afternoon and it's going to go into your saturday at 2:00 in the afternoon. it's dry in our area. i can't rule out a shower or thunderstorm tonight, for most of us the evening is looking dry. it's going to be this system that continues to intensify and develop that will bring rain at times, especially, later in the day tomorrow over night on into your saturday morning. i'll have the timing with future weather coming up right around 4:15. 84 degrees right now. small chance of a shower, otherwise we're mild and humid tonight, leon, back to you. >> folks, as

chris lawrence is in our newsroom with the story of this 71-year-old war hero. chris. >> wendy, where to start? james was a young army vetted, waited and rescued with almost no thought to his own well being. >> as he cared for two soldiers, shrapnel slashed open, the back of jim's body from head to foot, that terrible wound didn't stop jim from pulling those two men to safety. >> in march of 1969, two choppers had been shutdown and he was surrounded on three sides by thousands of on the north vietmanese army. he was part of a small team that held their ground. he crawled through a rice patty to save another soldier with bullets flying all around him. when he was given a chance to be air lifted out for treatment, he refused to get on the chopper. >> as jim now says, i would have rather died on the battlefield than know that men died because they did not have a medic. >> now mccullen thing that kept him going, knowing he had never told his father, i love you. it was the first thing he said to his dad when he finally got home, he told him off for the next 22 years r

. >> chris lawrence had a facebook live from there.e was there with his family and the three little ones. some drivers though making the best of the backup by getting creative on the roadside. one of the nbc "today" producers also stuck on the beltway shot this video. people hopping out of their cars, whatever to do to pass the time, play a little hockey on the street there and made it work. >> i san on our website we have a flurry of pictures of people walking their dog. got to do what you've got to do. >> the dog has to do their business. >> right. >> 6:07, talking the weather on this sunday as we round out your weekend. look at that live shot right there. really nice sunrise this morning. things quickly warming up. you'll get to enjoy the sun today. chuck bell looking at most comfortable times. you can light up the grill. >> let's southwest. a dangerous situation unfolding. fast moving wildfires have forced thousands to evacuate. we're going to tell you about the growing threat as flames move closer to neighborhoods. th's 60:8 on ♪

chris lawrence, thank you. >>> emily has now been downgraded to a tropical depression. there is a state of emergency for 32 counties in the central and southern parts of florida. the worst of the storm is over now but the areas of heavy rain and flash flooding, those are going to continue throughout tonight. nbc sarah reports now from taa. to be a wet monday in central and south florida turned out to be tropical storm emily. forming in the gulf of mexico over night, headed straight towards the tampa bay area, bringing torrential rain, wind and flooding, pushing water and this unfortunate fish far inland from the shores. the fast moving storm sending cars into flooded dish, this truck over pass and leaders scrambling. governor rick scott declaring a state of emergency in 31 counties. >> this will give us the flexibility to work with local governments and make sure every community has what they need. >> they're providing sandbags for people who live in the areas. the limit is ten sandbags per household. that's not enough for many people. they're now having to find other w

. >>> chris lawrence here at the live desk. right now the fate of your health care is up in the air. there are several republican senators reflected the affordable care act, collapse. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans. >> senate majority leader admitted he doesn't have the bocked without agreeing on a replacement. the senate had failed to agree on a bill to repeal and replace at the same time. now, the law is struggling in some states with thousands of people have rising premiums and few options on the exchange, but it's doing a lot better in places like maryland, where the uninsured rate has dropped to over 10% to about 6.7. president trump says, whatever happens next, it won't be his fault. >> we're not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obama care fail and then the democrats are going to come to us and say how do we fix it, how do we fix it or how do we come up with a new plan. >> the president would not be "letting obama care collapse." he is actively, act

. >> chris lawrence here at the live desk where we're getting new details of what was going on behind the scenes before president trump announced his new chief of staff. nbc news now confirms reince priebus actually resigned privately yesterday. that came after that profanity laced new yorker interview from white house communications director anthony. he called priebus a paranoid schizophrenic and blamed him for the on going leaks. now, the president announced priebus's replacement just minutes before walking down the right about an hour ago the top of news 4 at 5:00. while still inside. he tweeted that homeland security secretary john kelly will be his new chief of staff. >> general kelly has been a star. he's don he's done an incredible job so far. he's a great american. reince priebus, a good man. thank you very much. >> in his tweets, the president thanked priebus for his service. here is nbc kelly o'donnel with more on how we got to this point. >> this is a long-time coming and on a rainy friday in washington with the president giving a wave under the umbrella. he's making a majo

from behind the desk, chris lawrence. >>> a nightmarish head-on crash neighbors say is too dangerous. neither driver walked away from this scene. easy to imagine why. news 4 derrick ward is live that this crash derrick, tell us about this. >> well, you know, what we're looking at right here is part of $116 million in infrastructure changes. it's going to include on and off ramps they think it will make this road safer and eliminating some of those intersections. now, the question remains would that have made any difference this that deadly crash this morning. it was about a wrong way driver and head-on collision and it happened just over there. investigators believe a northbound motorist was traveling on the southbound side and that car collided with southbound car killing the drivers of both vehicles. police have yet to determine how the car ended up on the wrong side of the road but familiar with route 210 on the highway just adds to the notoriety of this busy thoroughfare. it bring the toll of lives lost since january. countless serious accidents and pedestrian fata enough to warra

. >>> good morning, i'm chris lawrence. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. it is another weather alert day, so we want to get right to storm team4 meteorologist sheena parveen. >> yeah, it is hot, sticky, and steamy, and there's even a chance for some storms later in the day. meteorologist sheena parveen has more on the timing. what are you seeing, sheena? >> right now we're not seeing too much on radar locally except all this heat. 89 degrees is the actual temperature, feels like 103 and this is going to help to fuel thunderstorms. here's a look at the radar. we have a couple showers right near hagerstown, but later today, here's where we could see storms popping up and moving through. it's our entire area that's under risk. so as rwe the day, mainly dry, 3:00 p.m. storms north and west of the district. by 6:00 p.m., strong storms moving through d.c. and the beltway, by 8:00 p.m., still have the chance for shorwers bu going into the weekend, some changes. >>> we're following a developing story in damascus where neighbors woke up to explosions and intense fl

chris lawrence posted a video of him and his little ones on his facebook page. >> quickly warming up outside. take a live look outside here. the sun is out. it's work. chuck is looking at the most comfortable times you can get out and maybe eat outside and fire up the grill. >> not a bad idea. >> let's take you out west first for a dangerous situation unfolding. fast moving wildfires. they have forced thousands to evacuate. morning about the growing threat as flames. >> raw emotion quite visible on the streets of new york as police and community members came together to murrant death did have an overs. yesterday a candlelight vigil held in the bronx to remember officer miosotis familia who was shot in the head when her mobile command vehicle was ambushed on wednesday morning. her friends and colleagues say she always knew her work was dangerous and she was passionate about what she did. >> she's a good mother, hard working and so passionate about her work. >> we'll never forget her and always honor h legacy. >> following that horrific ambush on wednesday, fellow officers shot and kil

. >> and i'm chris lawrence. right now, we're getting some new reaction to that shocking decision that the fbi is staying put at the j. edgar hoover building in downtown d.c. >> not only a story that affects the district but it is a huge impact to maryland and virginia, with big losses in time, money, and benefits for the communities who wanted the new headquarters there. news4's justin finch is live downtown with what it means for the agency moving forward. >> reporter: hey, there, angie. good morning. lots of tight lips are at the hoover building. many workers would not go on camera and talk more about it but they have heard about it for some time, they say close to ten years now. but now it seems a move willing later than sooner and there are those nearby who are relieved to hear that this morning. for now, it seems this is it, that the fbi will remain in its headquarters at the j. edgar avenue, built in 1975. a building some say is dated and decrepit. >> if the building closed, my business will also be slow.

. >> chris lawrence! >> he's a really handsome man. >> okay, clearly it's friday. look, i can't even set my papers down. >> he does look a lot like your husband. >>> summer visitors on their way to yosemite national park running into dangerous conditions. the rac that has already destroyed dozen s of homes. >>> and it is a good time to check on the oven outside. we are under a heat advisory. lauren lets usnow when we'll k >>> a fire burning near yosemite national park is growing but firefighters are making some progress. >> the crews now have it 15% contained which is somewhat of an improvement from where where they were last night. it has destroyed 50 homes in california and burned several other buildings as well. thousands of people were forced to evacuate their neighborhood earlier this week and as they tray to contain the fire, crews co conditions and temperatures in the 90s. >>> we have the same temperature bu s but we're anything but dry here. >> lauren is here to tell us about this oven we have cooking outside. >> definitely pool time today and we only have

at the live desk, chris lawrence, news 4. >> tough to believe there. >> yeah. >>> first at 4:00, a veteran from maryland in tears, overwhelmed, finally getting the honored he's earned. he's 94 years old. how his daughter made this happen. >>> and just what sets a new fertility app apart from the rest. the couple who claims it works better than the pill and what you need to know about it. >>> how visa is convinced to go more businesses to go cashless. we want to know what you think about it. do you want more companies, like restaurants, to go cashless. >>> and, of course, doug still tracking storms and rain tonight, they're -- look at that line of rain, it's out there coming down big time out there. doug is back in a few minutes to doug that t >>> tracking a new severe thunderstorm warning, this storm, we've been watching this one right here coming through fairfax county, now. severe thunderstorm warning in fairf fairfax county, including patomic and bethesda right around arlington county. look, take a look at this s off to the east very quickly here, looking at wind possibly gusting 50 to

. >>> i am chris lawrence. we have a good show for you reporter, mr. mcfarland and dave mcconnell.u here, when we learned steve scalise had been released from the hospital following the shooting, but the bigger issue surrounding this is the danger to some of the congressional members and staffers and the money that is now being requested to protect them. >> they are very concerned. used to be they would come to the hill and they are safe on the hill and they would go home and go to their families and have their events, and now it's crazy, somebody may try to shoot them, and we will have a replica of what happened at the baseball field, and what they are thinking about is sending security from the hill with them and that's going to be cumbersome. they are trying to work around how they can protect them at home and on the hill, and they don't have any definite answers yet. >> this shooting of scalise at the ball field raised concerns about the threats against congress, and the house sergeant and arms testified to a panel earlier in the summer saying the number of threats was rising,

lawrence jones and chris hahn. the president just back in the last hour on u.s. soil.t's your take on the meeting at the g-20? i'll start with you, chris. >> i have heard a lot of conservatives talk about it. george w. bush said let's be careful intoft bigotry of low expectations. he didn't start a war or lash out at xi jinping. i want to know what happened in that russian meeting. did he give back the sanctions president obama put on the russians. judge jeanine: i'll let lawrence jones answer this. you know what? you guys ought to put up or shut up on this russian collusion thing. go ahead, lawrence jones. >> we heard it, chris. the president went in to putin and called him out. he told the russian president he knew they tried to interfere with the election, though it didn't affect the outcome of the election, he wanted to hold putin accountable. but then he moved on. the ceasefire in syria, that's something the media should be reporting. but they would rather talk about collusion with russia. >> it would have been nice if the president stood before the press and answ