chris lawrence, news 4. >> chris, thank you. >>> now to the impact of fire is having on the morning commuted morning thrst 4 traffic alert because of this massive fire. take a look at chopper 4 and that picture from above. the section of 355 frederick roadlosed as chris said to get the tankers through. as we zoom in a little bit and look a the map, you c see the closure. closures is always in purple, not slow with red. it is closed in that purple shade. shut down between old hundred and 121, lanes blocked because of thla bze. again, them getting through that area. brad freas has been up above this for almost two hours now. how are things looking travelwise? pretty slow? >> that's right, melissa. we have been over this for a while. we've seen the delaysw.g this is urbana. the delays coming down from frederick. i'm hearing 10-mile delay all tohe way back route 70 which is definitely a viable option for you if you're trying to get through the damascusarea to get tock on 270. i also want mention that the neighborhoods in clarksburg are getting wiped out with smoke this morning. it's going to be

chris lawrence at the live desk with that. reporter: straight to video from the scene. the important thing to note here is that officials say no one was the embassy was actually closed because of the start of t muslim holiday. the shots were fired at a security booth outside the u.s. embassy in the capital of turkey. nbc news is told six gunshots were foird from a moving white car. right now police are out there looking ft fire. nbc news reached out to the state department spokesperson. we'll be sure to update you as soon as weea more. >>> this caused traffic disruptons in the distr and northern virginia. atv and dirt bike rider ripped through the streets yesterday. they could be seen popping wheeli, weaving in and out of traffic. e rider crashed into a light pole. atvs are legal in the district and there's a no-chase policy so the cops couldn't go after them. arlington police say n arrests were made. >>> we have new details of the deadly plane flash carroll county, manied phd. thentsb says they learned that plane crashed short after it took off landing in a soy bean fi

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news 4's chris lawrence talks news 4's chris lawrence talks with parents aolice aboutnd (birds chirpinga running brook,) news 4's chris lawrence talks with parents aolice aboutnd ahh. the new deer park sparkling is made with real spring water. ♪ it's so refreshing and delicious, you don't need slo-mo models to sell it. real spring water, real fruit flavors d refreshing bubbles. just what's refreshingly real. a blackha helicopter has crashed in iraq, chris? >> yes. what we're hearing is it has crashed in iraq, carrying special up to ten operations forces. we have confirmed there's one death from that crashnd multiple injuries. at this point it may have been a mechanical malfunction. there's no indication right nowb saying it waught down by enemy fire. we expect to be getting a .atement fairly so we'll keep you updated on this. aaron. >> 5:24 right w. getting kids to school can get complicated. life is much easier when kids can walk or bike themselves. >> that's right. it might make the morning a little easier to manage. it also makes it more stressful for parents whoho have a new list of

chris lawrence is at theive desk. >> look at this fire. it engulfed a block of businesses in downto upper marlboro. we just got information from prince george's county fire and rescue. this started at al's country kitchen or al's deli. it spread to a chinese reaurant and a bail bonds place. this is on the corner of water and main street, above sylvania avenue in upper marlboro. right now, crews are trying to put out the hot spots. they hav the bulk of the fire knocked down. news 4's justin finch is headed to the scene. in the meantime, you c o follow hi twitter. aaron, back to you. >> chris lawrence for us at the live desk. thank you. >>> we want get back to the story impacting all of us today, th weather. >> more rain is coming our way. jack taylor is in for melissa.t, but fi chuck bell is here. more rain, chuck. and a lot of it last night? >> a lot of rain over the dmv. to that pattern is not going break down soon. the flash flood watchnu is just s ago, were extended until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. and they will likely have to be exten

near duke street and marc chris lawrence with more on that. chris?need to do some emergency o track wor a switch that'sd locate right near new york avenue. that's going to affect camden yards. the first northbound train out of union station won't leave until 7:00. you'll find 15, 20 minute delays on the entire camden line all morning. at the live desk. >> 6:33. a maryland man believes he was bitten by a shark. chris bowen was paddle boarding. he sait he f something hit his leg in the water and then he saw blood. bowing cled and said the pictures of the maryland department of naturalan resourc experts were not able to determine a shark bite by the photo. >> all i saw after he grabbed my leg, i saw something flipping i walked out, saw the teeth marks. >> boeing told us he is not scared. he'll hill the water so. >> a northern -- man is charged with throwing his child in the creek. police swarmed the neighborhood searching for kyle sunday. he was wanted for throwing his c child in thek earlier in the day as he tried to getway from thepolice. the little b

and prosecutors say he was at risk of leaving the country. >> chris lawrence is live outside the montgomerynty courthouse now with more on this. chris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. when you put your kids on that school bus, you trust, you expect that they're going to get home safely. not only is this driver accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl, but police think there could be more victims out there. look at this image. this is photo of etienne kabongo, he's 62 years old. back on july 31st, he s driving a group of students with special needs home.th one o kids got to the stop and the bus assistant got off with that child to help them get off and that's when prosecutors say mr. kabongo walked to this girl's , she was sitting by herself, and raped hern he's b charged with second degree rape, and molested her. is in the process of outfitting all of its buses with security cameras. this bus had a camera and it captured most of what happened prosecutors say. they also say he had an airline ticket to ethiopia for today. they saye was a flight risk and the judge denied him bon

chris lawrence, news 4. >>> thank you, chris. sectn of 355, this is chopper 4 just coming past this. we'll see t fire from above. take a look at this. this section is closed between1 nd 109. this is a major issue for a lot of people. that's a four-mil stretch of roadway. right now shut down because of this blaze. you're going to have to unfortunately, take 270 instead. this is the problem here this morning. 270 starting tokeet quite b up. you can see chopper zooming in from four miles out showing you the situation from above. i'm going to get a better idea of what's going on. major warehouse fire. frederick road shut down between 121 and 109. le> skies have beening out after the late-day showers yesterda where skies clear early, it's gotten quite comfortable. mid-60s from upper montgomery county to the shenandoah and the blue ridge. closer t 70 t closer you get to the i-95 corridor. low 70s near warm waters of the chesapeake bay. your hour by hour planner today, all sunshine all the time. it is goingo get a little on the hot side

at the live desk, chris lawrence news >>> this caused pretty bad traffic disruptions in d.c. and northe virginia atv and dirt back riders zipping threw the s. this large group could be seen popping wheelies, weaving in and out of traffic. i saw se of this in the onsouthwest waterfrt last night. atvs are illegal in the district and t are is also no-chase policy, so police couldn't go after them.ol arlington pe say they made no arrestst in t county either. >>> 6:07. we have new details about the deadly plane crash in carroll county, maryland. the ntsb learned that the ultra ligh planerashed shortly after takeoff, landing in the soy bean field around 11:00 in the morning saturday. the pilot and another man on board died. the ntsb does not know why the planecrashed. a preliminary report is expected in the next few weeks. >>> d.c. police looking to find the person who shot and killed a man on southern avenue southeasterly yesterdayrn mog. the victim is identified as keith douglas. he died at the hospital. police say this was th i99th homici the district this year. >>> a 15-year-ol

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right have breaking news no chris lawrence at the live desk for us. >> a roa crew member has been hit by a truck working at the site.s this our first video coming in from the scene. we learned that the worker was air-lifted to the hospital after getting hit by t truck. this but in the area of monument drive and monument wa that road was closed down. it has reopened to traffic. here's a map to give you perspective of whehis happened. the worker was hit at a work site at this intersection. that road is reopened. we working to figure out how they are doing and how it happened. we'll bring you the information. >>> 5:02. we're following a developing story. neighbors living on 56th street say they're fed u with violence. a little girl and two other people were shot there last night. >> this happened less than a y that mahkai wilson was killed last month. jeg justin f fch has more us. >> reporter: that's right. police are looki for an acura or a lexus with a swing in the w back and a license plate in the front window. three victims. n adult woman and a teen girl injured. an elementary school

. >> chris lawrence at the le desk following this developing story. chris. >> yeah, as hard as it is to say this, angie, this tragedy could have been a worse. take a look at the scenes from yesterday afternoon. this is in a shopping center parking at santa ana, this plane wasneaded for emergency landing and something went wrong. all five passengers on the plane amazingly no one on the ground was injured. sadly, we're seeing the first photos of the victims. this is picture of her, she was only 29 years ol the faa records show the plane is registered toea a estate company based in san francisco. right now, investigators arerk g to figure out why it went down. aaron. >> chris lawrence at the live desk. >>> at least 91 people are deadle following a powerful earthquake in indonesia. this earthquake hit a town of lumboc. >>> and develing this morning, president trump offered a clear acknowledgement about the trump tower meeti involving his eldest son and a co kremliected lawyer. the president tweeted this yesterday, this was a meeting of an opponent, totally

chris lawrence on that. chri >> aaron, the woman's husband and the father of those two little girls is now in custody. police, they may be working on recovering their bodies. sh shanann watts is pregnant. officers took her husband chris watts into custody yesterday and ficials say he has admitted to killing all three. detectives have been collecting evidence in the family's home overnight. you're looking at video from that scene which undstandably is the entire neighborhood on edge. as you take a look at some of othat. we als want to call your attention to a tweet that we just got. 's from one of the neighbors, katie eastman. she said the neighbors have hammered a cross in the lawn and brought stuffed animals to that home. and again, we're expecting to l get a more information when the police hold a press conference at 120 this afternoon. aaron. >> all right, chris. thank you. >>> it's ht6:06 r now. developing this morning, three d.c. families who spent 12ears wondering what happened to their loved ones final

chris lawrence at the live desk. what's happening? >> we're talking about the possibility of 17 feet of water in a matter of minutes. look at your screen. all of the rain that the area has seen in f the past weeks has overwhelmed the college lake dam. and people who live near there have been told to get out. the e.c. glass high school auditorium is aheter for those forced to thacuate. e's no evacuations at the university of lynchburg.e school is not downstream of the dam. if there's a complete failure, wtheer depth in lynchburg could exceed 17 feet in jt 7 minutes. we checked with storm team 4's chuck bell and lynchburg could see two more inches of rain today. >>> our stormy weather maye to blame for a virginia family's unbelievable loss. this girl's parents just tucked her into dead. she was pinned under the tree and died in her room. neighbors tell us that the 10-year-old played violin and played softball. >> my heartbreaks as a mom, to have to go through something like that. definitely having her a few times, she's a sweet girl. >>

chris lawrence, chopper b 4,h are heading to the scene right now. they'll have live reports and an update coming up. we d t knot this is impacting the wednesday morning commute. for more on that,n we'll tur to melissa mollet in first 4 traffic. >> good morning, an angie. because of this massive fire operation, clarksburg, 355 frederick road between old hundred a 121, clarksburg road, that's a four-miletretch that's closed down right now because of the structure fire. as you know, if yore familiar with that route, we have one lane northbound, one lane southbound. a lot of people use 355 instead of 270 through that area. not going to be able to do that today. here is the section shut wn. no doubt 270 going to get quite busy as this progresses this rning. you have to take 270 instead. as we widen out and look at anything else happening right now, no other major issues on the roads. we'll keep y updated on that and this problem here. chopper should be there soon with live pictures and also chris lawrence. more coming up in a minute. >> melissa, thank yo

chris lawrence, news 4, back to you. >> chris, thanks. >>> it's 5:06. right now d.c. mayor bowser is headed back to el esalvador. interrupted her trip abroad to return back to the district and monitor yesterday. we hav people coming to our city for the sole purpose of spewing hate. year t make sense last and it doesn't make sense now. more on the mayor's train mission still taead. >>> s with news 4 today as we foll the aftermath from yesterday's rally and a much larger counterdemonstrations. our coverage continues on air and on the nbc washington app. >>> 5:06. now to developing story in prince george's county. a man was beaten to death and his killers are still on the street. he at the hospital. his b identity has notn released. >>> also in prince george's county a murder/suicide investigation. yesterday afternoon police resmaur esponded to a call abo gunshots. officers found two adults dead inside a home. investigators have not released any names yet. >>> and this morning, new calls for unty of maryland, the university of maryland football coach to be fid. >> coach

. >>> chris lawrence joins us live with an update coming up next. chuck? >>> good morning everybody. our weather a little showery this afternoon. no heavy rain today. but all goonews. once the sun goes down today, we're 100%o dry i the weekend, including your plans to go to the mauns mountains orb the beach this weekend. so shan city to rehoe beth, not a cloud in the sky. vemperatures in the upper 70s. our ay forecast coming up next.'r >>> wee inside the home of the smoke.al chili ham chuck bell has been tking about it already. the half smoke is on the grill right now. cong up next, we'll speak with virginia ali who created ben's chill in 1958 about it turning 60. turning 60. at's coming up.th welcome guys! hi! you are gonna love the neighborhood! it's totally wired for fios. is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speeds. and fios is a 100% fiber-optic network, so you can stream, game, and watch 4k shows all at once. kid's right about that! see! we are gonna have so much fun here. 100% fiber-optic network. 1

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. >> news 4 chris lawrence is live at the vienna mettation with more and what metro is saying about this sue. chris? >> yeah, eun, basically,c. counsel members and the uniony are saying tve this preferential treatment. this morning we'll sort out the facts to let you decide for yourself. here's what ian tell you, about n2:00 i the afternoon the kessler group arrived and they got o the last car of an orange it wasn't completely private. there were some journalists onboard that car. but, riders were being told by police thae they should m to the front of the train toavoid kessler'sgroup. and officers did block riders l om entertaining part of the station for sevenutes while they escorted kessler's group onboard. once they arrived at foggy bottom, all the other passengers re asked to exit first and then kessler's w dprgroup was escorted off the train. now, metro says police made the final decision on how to safely get g kessler'sup to the rally. quote, they were escorted by police on to the rear of the train and police road in that rail car and others to protect the safety of everyone the t

. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest on this. >> we just checked with chuck bell. he said residents onig island will start to feel the hurricane startingn a few hours and lasting through the night. here's a look atome of the preparations under way. take a closer look. the hawaii national guard is mobilized and the red cross has opened its shelts. it shows the path of hurricane lane. it could be the strongest rricane to hit the island in more than a quarter-century. it could bring up to 10 to 15 inches of rain. unli folks on the mainland, they can drive away. the residents have no choice but the hunker down. >>> kids in our area getting ready for schoolhis morning. school buss will be rolling in loudon county. >> one of the new additions is the academies of loudon. it's a new high school to age students creativity and imagination. students compete to get in. those that get in will go between their home academies and radiology and criminal justice. they have 83,000 students in 92 elementary schools, 17 high 8 schools,ddle schools, 15 instructional schools and 2 chart

chris lawrence at t live desk. >> another man was shot and killed overnight. and d.c. police are looking for four men wearing dark clothes. it happened in edgewood, 7th and girard street paramedics rushed the victims to the hospital. this marks 100th homicide in 2018. this time last year, there had been 73. homicides are up 36% in d.c. >> thank you. >>> a devg story this morning. one of the biggest names in college football will not be on the sidelines to start the season. >> ohio state suspended urban meyer for three games for the way he handled the case of an assistant coach accused of domestic violence. the action was handed down. ohio state's athletic director was also suspended without pay for a two-week period. >> as a headcoach, you're responsible for everyone's behavior. that's a difficult thing t do. we all know that. however, there were red anflags. known.h i had nope i wish i did a better job of finding things out. >> meyer said he thought it wa't his job to do anything about the allegations against smith unless law enforcement took action. falloutdetails on

. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk witheshe l on this. and residents have hours to buckle down for this. >> we just checked with chuck bell. he saidts resid on the big island will start to feel the hurricane starting in a few hours and lasting throe night. here's a look at some of the preparatio under way. take a closer look. the hawaii national guard. the american red cross, already opening its shelter. it shows the path of hurricane la. lane. it could be the strongest hurricane to hit the island in more than a quarteldcentury. it cring up to 10 to 15 inches of rape.'r w rain. paradise repairs for what could be the worst. 14 it's 4:04. a group of kids getting ready for school this morning. busewill be rolling in loudon county. >> one of the new i addition the academies of loudon. it's a new high scho to encourage students civity and imagination. students compete to get in. those that get in will go between their home academies and radiolmiy and cl justice. they have 83,000 students in 92 elementary schools, 1 high schools, 28 middle scho

. >>> some breaking news nhe indonesian resort of lombok has been hit by anotherke earthq chris lawrence at the live desk with more. chris. >> yeah, it could be at devastg, it's where a third quak l in atle over a week and it was actually an aftershock after the power quake on sunday buildings and home already destroyed have little hope this time around. innesia's geological agency says the quake h a magnitude of 6.2. there's no tsunami warning because it hit on land overnight, the indonesian agency says the deatholl from sunday's quake has now reached 237. no word yet on casualties from today's quake but we'll be keeping an eye on it all morning. aaron. >> chri thank you. >>> it's406, we turn to new video from the parkland interrogation. you can see nolas cruz walk into a room wearing a gown. the interrogation took place about 2 1/2 hours after the mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school. we should note thatf alle video released yesterday was eyited by the broward county state atto office. listen about why he allegedly opened fire inside the cool. >> what deem>> burn, kill

i chris lawrenc at the live desk for the latest on this threat of a failing what's happening? >> talking about the possibility of more than 17 feet of water in a matter ofn minutes lunchburg. about 150 people have been evacuated so far. threat of the college lake dam failing. all of the rain we've been seeing in the fast few days, has overwhelmed that dam. that's been shrinking due to sedimentation. at one point, the acres and is down to about 19. state officials have liste that dam among high hazard dams. here's some images showing the flooding in that area. crews had to save a young driver fr floodwaters yesterday evening. lynchburg is about halfway between richmond ande, roan give or take, about a three-hour ride from d.c. lynchburg could see more than two inches of rain today.th >> chrisk you. >>> it's 6:05. our stormy weather may be partly to blame for a virginia family'n unimle loss. a tree crashed through the roof of a home in a neighborhood, just outside of warrington wednesday evening. dia gherghis' parents had just tucked her into bed.s she wanned by the tree and die

they cannot comment at this time. > and now we'll go to chris lawrence at the live desk with the latt out of south korea. >> reporter: yeah, nearly 8,000 american soldiers are still missing from the korean war. and with so many families, this is the real sign of haunt they have had in decades. officials have just finish ed te ceremony at the air force base. they will have an honorable carry ceremony at pearl harbor. mike pence is flying there for the arrival. usually the scientists use i.d. tags or dog tags to identify the mains, but with only one dog tag, this cou take years. >>> thank you. and 6:13 now. no relief fords thous of firefighters battling t massive wildfires sweeping across california. 15 wildfires are burning and two are converging into one to put 12,000 buildings at risk for destruction. 44,000 people were evacuated. e wildfires have killed at least eight people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes. >>> for the second time in a month, thieves made off wit a car left unlocked with the keys in it. you can see the man get out of the passenger side of the black suv. e detect

>> chris lawrence at the live desk. it's 5:04. a silver spring father is worried about his daughters. heasn'teen 11-year-old kandyce or 16-year-old karr men matos since saturday. they disappeared from their home. her father believes they ran away from home but he says they lefthout necessities. >> they left with nhing. they got nothing with them, no money, no noclothes, ing. >> his daughters hang out at the westfield wheaton mall. anyone with information is asked to call montgomery county police. >>> policeound the man accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old virginia girl and her grandmother. they are still missing. here's a picre of the suspect, rodriguez-sariol. they found him and the vehicle they were looking for in pennsylvania yesterday. now take a look at the picture of the girl and her grandmother. the suspect kidnapped engzabeth and rodriguez from harrisonburg on sunday. he may have been trying to take them new york. >>> the murder of a beloved student athlete has left a community in shock.n >> jus finch is outside montgomery

chris lawrence has the latest. >> residents and visitors are feeling the impact. right now, that includes hurricane-force winds and torrential rain. these were posted to social media. take a closer look. the massive storm is going to keep moving towards the island for the next 24 to 36 hours, buy graduall weakenings as it d so. even if the storm doesn't make landfall,here's a risk of catastrophic landslides. the storm is expected to turn to the west tomorrowy and s offshore. by sunday, it is expected to have weakened into a tropical storm. until then, paradise will have to deal with hurricane lane. >>> now, we are going to the story of the michael cohen case. it looks like the publisher of "the enquirer" was granted immunity. they are going to say they paid karen mcdougal for the rights of r story. the arrangement was known as caption ki. th acquired the rights to the story but mener publishes it. later in the hour, susan mcginnis will join us from capitol hill to break down the latest in this case. >>> this morning, tension between president trump and jeff sessio

. >>> chris lawrence is at t lye >> the department of education is considering allowing states to use federally funded grants o buy guns for teachers, according to an article in the ew york times". they were prohibited to use the money to buy firearms. the education department is using student support in academic enrichment grants. those make no mention of limiting weapons. that would allow the secretary of education to use her discreti discretion. betsy devos could use that grant money for firearms or firea training. after the school shooting in park lap parkland, devos saidho gunsd be an option. >>> school bells are ringing this morning. there are three new schools in loudon county. loudon count is the third-largest school system in a virg they are expected to have more than 83,000 students thischool year. loudon is rolling outll-day wi kindergarten and counselors. >>> elliot-hine middle school is closed for the t rest ofhe week because of flooding damage. buses will take students to class tod and tomorrownd take them back to elliot-hine in the afternoon. >>> ohio state has suspende

at the live desk chris lawrence, news 4. >> big impact. >> that was a very scary accident. >> the scene here at the pocono raceway in pennsylvania. hard to believe that anybodyle s abo walk away from this. itrdappened yeste during the seventh lap of the abc supply 500. two cars hit each other, botrs ca spinning around. robert wick ens went airborne into the catch fence. the thrrivers involved were able to get out of the cars on their own. wick enswaas and alert when he was airlifted to the hosital. >>> torning people in nashville are on edge. a rash of deadly shootingsd and ar robberies have the music city rattled. >> the crimes appear to random. the gunman last struck on friday ni ft killing twoends celebrating a birthday. investigators say that shooting is similar to other rect cases, four attempted robberies and one other killing. one victim was just out walking her dog when she was shot in the back and now she's paralyzed. >> officers throughout the city are on the look out for two cold blooded killers who obviously have no respect whatsoever for aneity of human life. >> witnesses d

. >> chris lawrence is live at the vienna metro station to explain now why some say general manager shouec lose his jobse of this. chris? >> aaron, they're saying metro officials allowed kessler's group to ride a private train to the rally. something that one d.c. cncil member calls wrong and distbing and exactly the opposite of what metro said it would do. got to the metro station around 2:00 in the afternoon. police esrted them onboardhe rear car of anin orange l train. for a few minutes,ff oicers did block riders from entering the station. but, the train wasn'om cetely private. there was some journalists on board and once kessler and their group their train left, then tthey reopened the rest o station. the train did make regular stope but sn advising other passgers to move to the front of the train to avoid kessler's group. once they arrived at foggy bottom, all the passengers wer asked to exit first a then kessler's group wasescorted off. we did reach out to metro officials and they released a statemen saying kessler group traveled from veania to foggy ttom on a regularly scheduled tra

chris lawrence at the live desk with the latest. >> wre getting new video. want to get youtraight to the ages of that fire. d.c. fire officials tell us that four people have been left without a home. the red cross hasal beend in to help them. this three-story row he on newcombe street on second. you can see wheres firefight had to pbust out the window to save those people.ro the fire out on the first floor and spread to the upper floors. with the home being surrounded by other rowhi houses, could have been worse. we're working to learn how it started but can tell you, thankfully, no one was injured inside. >> that's good news. chris, thank you. >>> we're staying on top of breaking news of a missing 12-year-old girl, jinjing ma is believed tbe in, extreme danger. here's a picture of her. she's h4'11", w brown eyes and black hair. ishes visiting from china. >> the fbi believes these two people were invved in her disappearance. they were seen on surveillance video arrivin at theirport yesterday morning. >> the woman on camera is walking with the 12-year-old gir

. >> chris lawrence at the live desk with what we know about this. >> four people have been left without pictures showing how that heavy fire was knocked out. it's a three-story row house between other homes. the residentsay haveeen asleep when it started. and firefighters hadus to the windows to get them out. the fire started in the first floor and it engulfed other homes from there. this could have been a lot worse. no word on the cause of the fire, but here's a look at where itst started in south d.c. newcombe street on 2nd. no one has been injured. the red cross has been called in, with the residents, called for ala to live. >>> we're keeping an eye on the commute and the

chris lawrence with more on the ?ig fire up in marlboro. what can you tell >> this is breakg news out of prince george's county. fire s officia the fire started around 1:30 this morning. it started in al country kitchen and spread. so far, we know three other businesses and three apartments had been affected. look at the flames there. everyone did get out of the apartments. >> investigators are trying to figure out what caused t s we have a crew headed to the scene right now. justin finch is just about ther we're going to get details from him as soon as he arrives on the scoe. >>> back your thursday commute. jack taylor is in for melisou and yr traffic. >> first, chuck i bell here for the alerts we need to know about the storm team 4 forecast. >> another day with a storm team 4 weather alert. another day with a high chance for rain and a hig threat for flash flooding again today. just like what we saw yesterday. theiming will be a little bit different. today's threat coming primarily in theirst half o the day for the shenandoah valley. and

i'm chris lawrence.. >> good morning. we had our troubles this morning on the freeway. headed westbound we were jammed off 295 coming across the 11th street bridge. the accident activity aft main avenue has only the right shoulder getting by unfortunately. you'll find in virgini 95 northbound before norton, the big rig broken down. the continues activity up in howard county. northbound 95 ramp to 100 west. 100 west to 95 southdnd north wo route 1 all affected by this ongoing police investigation. >> thank cyou, jack. ack of your forecast is coming up next. stay with us. >>> good thursday morning. we'll see a pretty nice day setting up. you might notice a little less humid through the afternoon, but then we'll have a chance of a couple passing showers later on today. 91 degrees again and into theom weekend big changes. we'll see clouds move in, scattered showers acros saturday and sunday. that's going to hold temperatures into the mid 80s inrough the bng of next week. inking. finding smarter solutions. th

chris lawrence is at theive desk. >> look at this fire.nesses in downto upper marlboro. we just got information from prince george's county fire and rescue. this started at al's country kitchen or

chris lawrence shows how to save time and money as you go back to school.te >> repr: i hit the back-to-school in target with my second grader in tow, trying to make sense of all of the suppli. >> i want the notebook and it flips. >> reporter: "star wars" and sp rinkles. pink puppies to peace, love and glitter. >> do you like that? no. >> reporter: amy jackson is t tryioutfit her girl for first grade. >> sometimes my mom picks out backpacks that i don't like.'m >>ot going to pay that kind of money. we try to find something between. >> reporter: if it's a good price, buy more than you need. things break or get st. >> crayons are usually3 or $4. >> reporter: your phone can be invaluable. michelle says notebooks and binders may be marked down one day. backpacks and lunch boxes a week later.ou >>ee it on sale. >> reporter: you can use apps that collect coupons from the big retailers and puts them in one place. >> that's the most important thing. >> reporter: adding to the eenfusion, every classroom something specific. >> we int out the list and see what's here. >> reporter: with rget's scllol list

reporting live, chris lawrence news 4. > it's 6:33 we have new information about the search for a missi mother of five. her body was found in a philadelphia basement. sh lived in new york but her suv was spotted in fairfax county. this is surveillance video of her outside of her homen ie bronx on july 28th. that day she went to philadelphia to meet a friend. family members said they never heard from her again. days later police found her vehicle in fairfax county, they arrested lewis marty neez, he's charged with grand lars any and gun position. >>> howard county police offering a reward forfo any ination that could lead to an arrest of a woman. >>> officials in chicago are asking theor community help after violence erupted over the weekend. at least 66 others were shot in less than three days. at least a dozen ofhose victims died. one hospital had to turn away victims' families because the emergency room was so crowded with mourners.it cy leaders held a press conference to assure that overall gun violence is>> down. may have y county three candidates for county executive. the current n

chris lawrence at the live desk. chris. >> yeah, today's earthquake is the third to hit lombok in two weeks. and compacting the impact that the island has suffered. the video shows more damage to power lines and the aftershock killed hundreds of people. homes and buildings are already damaged by the first two lquak, butle chance this time around. indonesia's geological agency said this quake had atu mag of 6.2. fortunately there's no tsunami warng because the quake was centered on land about two miles deep. the death tl fromsunday's earthquake now stands at well over 222 people. no word yet on casualties from today. aaron. >> chris, thank you. >>> we're getting a new look at the suspected parkland, florida, shooter with police just hours after the rampage. some of you mayind this video graphic sand disturbing. in it, you see nicholkolas cruz walking into a room. we should note all of the video released with edited by the broward state attorney's office. listen w. >> what demons? >> the voices. >> what does it tell you

advice lawy chris lawrence is joining us th more o the firefight and the impact on traffic. >> reporter: yeah, route 355 is still shut down in both directions. and for aone who lives nearby, you t may want to che air quality because i've been told smoke could be coming out of that building for the next few days. you can see the smoke everywhere spreading acrosshe community of clarks xwurg. a and at one point traffic backed up ten miles. the chief is keeping firefighters on the fringeyi to knock down hot spots. he says the warehouse is huge. >> we have a higher than usual risk of collapse because the seal was exposed to high heat conditions. >> reporter: a fire crew spotted the building burning. it is a recycling plant that disposes of construction debris, but does not handle asbestos or hazardous waste. crews quickly discovered a major obstacle, water or thek l thereof, grants, they had to dispatch the tankers. >> and they shuttled the water in. >> reporter: police had to shut down the road to clear pace. and that forced all the rush hour traffic right on to the highway. none was inside

live at fallschurch, chris lawrence, news4. >> thank you. 13efore theour right now. president trump's working ver.tion is he's back here in d.c. this morning. is arrival comes as a former aide tell-all book hits shelves today. >> in omarosa's boo she accuses the president of being racist and not mentally fit to ben office. she releases a couple of recordings from when she wasre of her conversation with chief of staff john kelley a hereaction to it. president trump hasired back calling her a low life, wacky and not smart. >>> nikki jois live astronomical good morning. >> hey, good morning. it almost sounds like a reality self, former allies turned enemies, omarosa on a media blitz yesterday talking to several news outlets talking aboutresident trump's unfitness for office and his mental state and calling it into question. she released tapes recorded in the white house betweennder a chief staff john kelley in the situation room. the president's currents all saying that's inappropriate, questioning whether or not it's illegal, really going after omarosa's credibility. o

. >> chris lawrence has been standing by at the live desk follow this story. chris, what can you tell us? >> that brother and sister have been missing since yesterday ternoon. take a good look at your screen. d.c. police sayst he was een with his sister. e's only one-year-old and his sister only 13. they were on stanton road in southeast d.c. aroundhe area of suitland parkway, st. elizabeth hospital. about a mile from the congress heights metro station. police are considering maka to be critically missing. he may need certain food and especially diapers. please call police if you know where they might be. >> chris, thank you. it's about 6:04. a silver spring father is worried about his daughters. hasn't seen 11-year-old kandyce or karmen matos since saturday. they left without any necessitie, >> the girhey left with nothing. got nothingith them. money, no clothes, nothing. >> he says histe dau often hang out at the westfield mall.n anyone with information is asked to call montgomery county police. >>> pice found the man accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old irgin

. >>> good mo i'm chris lawrence. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. urgent search for this baby police say the baby's mother gave theno child away toer woman willingly on monday and the two haven'teen seen since. >> megan mcgrath has what the police have learned. >> reporter: well, the search is on here. if you take a look hebd mbehinds eou canee all the activity. we have polic officers as well asadets from the police officer aseing in the arch. and quite a few people have beee talking to t officers looking at the picturesrying to provide information. now, they are looking for a missing 7 month old nehemiah ha ha hann rd. he was last seen monday when his mother gave him to nettina thomas. and thomas has not yet returned the baby. so the search is on. police have spent t morni handing outnd flyers a asking residents if they have seen either the baby or thomas. nehemiah's mother cald police wednesday night right about 10:45 wednesday night because she was worried since thomas had not yet returned the baby. >> it is our understanding that the mother and

. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest, chris.ll >> reporter: angie, imagine walking out of a cvs or staples imagine a plane coming down right in front of you. first responders say it is miracle no one on the ground was killed. in the parking lot inan ana, staples, cvs, michael's, those are some of the stores where this plane went down. the pilot radioed in and was trying to plake an emergency landing at john wayne airport. pieces of falling debris raid down on one car but no one on the ground was injured. all five victims wereon passengs hat plane. this morning, we're learning more about them. this is the first photo of maxine 23 years old. investigators working to figure out what was the emergency that caused them to go do. aaron. >> chris, thank you. >>> to more breaking news, at least 91 people are dead after a werful earthquake in indonesia. this quake hit the popular tourist area of loamok. at the s time, authorities are trying to evacuate several thousand locals and tourists from nearby vacation islands. >> also developing this morning, president trump offered

. >> chris lawrence i at the live desk with the latest on the breaking news. chris. >> angie, imagine walking out of a s, a staples seeing a plane come down in front of u. first responders say it's a miracle no one on the ground was kill here's the parking lot in santa ana, staples, michael's those are some of the stores. e pilot radioed in that she was in trouble trying to make an emergencying landing. pieces of falling debris rain down on one car but no one on the ground was injured. all five victims were passenger on theplane. this morning, we're learning a lot more about them. this is the first photo of the victim, 29 years old. the oldest victim was 63. that's about a mile frfrl the. runw investigators are working to find out what was the emergency that caused it to go down, aaron. >> chris, thank you. >>> now more breaking news,as a 91 people are dead after that powerful earthquake in indonesia. the quake hit the popular tourist town of lombok yesterday. crews are searching for more victims. at the same time, authorities are ting to evacuate several thous

. > as news4's chris lawrence explains, people around the area could be dealing with the smoke from thisu can see the smoke everywhere, spreading across the communityf clarksburg. at one point traffic on 270 was backed up ten miles. >> it is too dangerous t send people in. >> reporter: chief charles bailey is keeping firefhters on t fringe, trying to knock down hotspots. he says the warehouse, is hu topped with heavy solar panels. >> we have a higher than usual risk of collapse because the steel was exposed to high heat conditions. >> reporter: a fire crew coming back from another call spotted the burning building at 3:00 a.m. it's a recycling pla that disposes of construction debris but doesn't handle asbestos haza hazardous or waste. there was no hydrants so they had to carry tankers. >> they shuttle the water in. >> reporter: police had to shut down route 355 to clear space for those tankers to get by. tat forced all that rush hour traffic right on highway. the plant was closed, and no one was inside. so investigators are still looking into how it started. but as for any of the folks

chris lawrence for us at the live desk. >>> 6:06. and this morning we learn mu detanew details in a police-involved shooting. officials are expted to release the name of a police offir that shot an alleged murder suspect. the officer said he heard gunshots coming from a liquor ore. as he was running towards the store, he noticed a man was running in his direction. the officer yelled for the man to drop his weapon. when he didn't, the officer shot him. witnesses said it was a chaotic pltuation. >> pwere running towards where i was at. i was like, what's going on? and the shots were loud. i knew it was close to me. >> before encountering the officer, the suspect allegedly shot and killed someone inside the liquor store. the victim and the subg ct were argut it's unclear if they knew one another. >>> we're looking at police body camera video showing what led to a police shooting. >> robert white wa bshot and kiy an county police officer in june. white was unarmed. ant to warn you that thi video is disturbing. e e officer shot while he c

chris lawrence with more at the live desk. >> take a look at this video. flooding, landslides and collapsing homes have killed at least 26t people re. get an idea. the amount of rain that have hit communities there i think it's about 17 moore than they had this time last year. you can see people, you know, wandering outside their home. the officials say nearly200 soldiers and air force service members have been dispatchedto that area to try to help t. and right now more than 15,000 peoplehe have takener in relief camps that are being run by the state.ki monsoon rains hundreds of people every year in india. rtunately, the monsoon season will end some time next month. eun?hr >> all right,, thank you. >>> 6: 09. another metro project will impact your ability to get to find d you may wa an alternate route this weekend. during the week, trains will be single tracking between mcpherson square and smithsoniar and run e 20 minutes on the blue, silver and orange lines. cotruction on these lines will last about 16 days. some stations will be closed this week hd. if

let's go to chris lawrence who is at the newsdesk. >> reporter: for many families,f this is thest real sign of hope they have had in decades. you remember this historic moment in northorea last month when officials handed over 55 boxes which were flown to south korea. and the north says the boxes contain the remains ofoldiers who fought during the korean war. and theyeould be from united states or one of the allies. today u.s. officials are holding a repatriot ceremony. hopefully the remains will be identified in hawaii. there will be an honorable carry cerekeny. ence is flying there for the usual rival. usually they see wedding rings, dog tags to help i.d. the service mber, but north korea only provided one military dog tag with those 55 boxes. so this testing could take several months or years. >> all right. , thank you. ds> and still no relief in sight for thousan of firefighters battling the massive fires sweepingcr as california. 15 wildfires are burning now. two of the fireso appear t be coming together in to one big one, putting 12,000 buildings at risk for destruction, many of

news 4's chris lawrence is working for you to find out what your kids need to know before you send them> is tough trying to determine the right age to your kids walk or bike to school. >> i think it has to do with the chil c >> when ies to her boys. jordanay carr it depends a lot on maturity and other kids living nearby. >> he k rwsht to go from school to home, walking with friends, probably the second or ehird grade. >> reporter: polay that's a good age to start a walking school bus wherene mom or dad picks up multiple kids on the way to school. >> you have certain neighborhoods where, you know, one parent takes them on nddnesday and monday the other takes it on tuesday and thursdays and one parent does ay frid >> reporter: master police officer ally eggers says when the kids are 9 or 10 years old they may be ready to go it alone. >> at that point, youknow, they understand, you know, safety. they understand, you know, stranger er, things like r:at. >> reporhe tells parents walk the route with your kids before they do it on their own. >> the parents know that path. they have already wal

lawrence jones, chris bedford and dolph zigler, lawrence, i will start with you. >> millennial.are. you are a smart and sassy young man with your finger on the pulse -- [laughter] and you know that there are bright spots in the economy wheneverren ingenuity and technology meet. great things happen, and statists always have to smother those ideas. >> yeah. i don't even think this is like a trump thing or republican or democrat think. it's just like don't do dumb stuff that's going to make it harder for millennials. they already like it easy. [laughter] kennedy: you're like the fat people on the spaceship in wall-e. just cruising around drinking dinner from a cup. >> right. and so we already want free stuff, so don't make us pay for things like, you know, take our lyfts away -- kennedy: yep. >> it's just a dumb strategy. kennedy: so, you know, it's obviously a choice between unions and technology. and, you know, the democratic old guard, they are beholden to unions. and, you know, just like there are people who say that you're not going to bring manufacturing jobs back to the midw