the clarks reached out to news4 david culver who started asking estions and ultimately got the city to send its to its property. >> i don't understand the weeds you buy in nurseries. >> reporter: clark was right, these are n weeds. the city found the majority to be ornamental, adding the horticulture list will be providing follow-up training for inspectors. after fixing up the househe numbers issue was resolved. an issue in gardening in more ways than one in the event you should receive a notice from the city of alexandria, you can rpeak directly to the inspector calling the numn the notice. >> i set myself as an example what you can do with native stuff instead of ivy and stuff that kills your trees. >> reporter: news4. >> we will get some helpfulai for our garden. >> we've seen a lot of o rainr the past month and a half here. nice to get showe like today and in the gardens. the next 10 days ie don't h much of a chance of rain in. nice tohe get moisture in there. we're dealing with a lot of clouds. wead those clouds all day, sunshine here and there. that has hped to keep temperatures

in northern virginia, david culver, news 4. >>> now to the children separated from tiramilies. today a group of children traveled to the supreme court to make their case. all of them have a parent tained by i.c.e. they want the public to know status over immigration status doesn't just happen at the border. >> it's very hard. i haveo stay home alone because my dad used to stay home with uy while mom was at work during the day. now myte s and i are alone when we come home from school. >> reporter: these childrenel tr from new jersey with their pastor. they met with senators corey booker and rob hernandez. the children want congress to adcate on their behalf. >>> back to our primary coverage in maryland, todayin voter prince george's county are choosing a new chief executive for the county. ou bureau chief tracee wilkins inlive at a polling site upper marlboro with more. tracee. >> reporter: according to the prince george's county board of elections, they could be lking a 20% turnout. not too high, but about on average for midterm primaries, but there are aot of open races and a

and our david culver went to the campus today to talk to the people there and to just see how theyreble tragedy and this horrible loss david isn the newsroom to tell you about that. >> exactly. to get a feel for how they're coping with it. i met with the dn there, the dean of maryland's college of journalism. sheointed out to m with journalists and a tragedy, there can be this delayed healing process. that griefanneling by going to work, telling summertime on the university of maryland's campus naturally quieter. tonight the stillness accompanied by sadness. >> the first thing i thought was i know we know people there. >> reporter: lucyns d of maryland's college of journalism. as she watched the news unfold from thursday's devastating rampage, she tested one of her newest adjunct professors writing -- >> i hope you're okay and if you guys need anything, you know, just ask and we'll be dn there. and of course he didn't get back to me. >> reporter: rob spent this past spring teaching an advanced reporting class. >> the students loved him. he was fun to have in the billing. he was very

i'm david culver. >> i'm angie goff. welcome back to "news 4 today" weekend. i brought you a >> i haven't seen her since l lond london,hen she was yelling at harry. thank you. this is very nice. >> mini windsor castle. can't wait to catch up about your adventures. >> good to be back. nice close-up there. v this isy mini castle. >> isn't it cute? >> very nice. >> yes. >> thank you, angie. will put it in my pocket and keep it close. >> good luck charm. >>> let's hope we get good luck with the weather kday. >> loo behind us. it is not looking ne a nice start. >> can't see anything. >> no.is lauryn rickettn the studio with us, as she is tracking some pretty strong storms potentially. al >> i want to about this. first, david, you have angie what she got adam tuss. i'll show you what she got me from london. >> did she get him the big windsor castle? >> yeah, exactly. >> wait a minute. >> it is all over social media. i'll repost it. >> great. >> what angie got adam and i. you were the lucky -- i shouldn'tay lucky one -- but you'll see on social media. an is the tempe

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in bristow, virginia, david culver, news4. >> we are getting n details this afternoon about a man who custody in n police fairfax county. officers showed up to a home after an overdose call, yesterday evening. it was on mission court in alexandria. a friend said they tried to calm him but became unresponsive. they took him to the hospital where he later died. he may have been suffering from an embolism. six police officers are on administrative leave and the chief says body cam will be releasedons as it doesn't jeopardize the investigation. >>> a prince george county acher is suing the school alleging her principal attacked her while students were on recess. the women are on administrative leave while the school system investigator. no chargesth filed. system investigates. what the teacher is demanding from the school system. > thousands of people were injured, are injured every year in this country while celebrating our country. the explosive warningou before set off your fireworks for the fourth of july. >> we continueo follow the major shake-up at the supreme court, reaction to jus

. >>> i'm david culver i northern virginia where reaction to the supreme court's decision on the ban s wideranging. we heard from the muslim mmunity today, from northern virginia and across our area. they gathered for a press conference einlier expre their concerns with this ruling. >> it's taken us back to the dark chapter in the age of our soety. and i hope that the supreme court will not enable this administration to reinject discrimination against a particular community into o immigration system. >> reporter: but not everyone feels that way. back here in suburban communities in northern virginia, we met one woman who sa this is about the border being protected. it's about national s and in her mind there's no difference between this and putting a lock on your front door. >> what i the responsibility that this president has but to protectur country? you know you come into my house here and do i have it wide open and say come on, y'all come. in? i have a front door that i amcl entitled te and lock against anyone who wants to come in here. >> reporter: ahead on news 4 at 5:00, you'l

i'm david culver. >> i'm angie goff. thank you for joining us over the next hour. a lot of news to get to. we want to begin with what affects a lot of you.he that is fact we are in weather alert mode. >> look behind us. a dreary start to this saturday morning. it could be potentially dangerous with storms that r laurketts is tracking. >> storms later on this afternoon. right now, we're tracking some rain out there. t mainthe west. everybody is seeing a little bit of mist. definitely, everybody is s oing some f there. you can see the fog creating some lowsi lities. not the prettiest of saturday mornings. something we're used to. n it muggy side. temperatures by 1:00 wil be in the l80s. tod. s this morning, maybe a few peeks of sunshine through the middle part of the day. showers and thunderstorms. we're seeing showers toward win chesd a little bit of lightning, as well. some thunderstormsth moving ugh winchester. lightning right there, south of winchester. we are seeing some thunderstorms. this has been therey much all mo

in alexandria, david culver, news4. >> love it. i love that you should live to the fullest.ething like this happens, it helps you with your priorities. i think it ist great t he is unstoppable. >> not slowing t downt much. >> nothing but net. >>> almost 80 degrees. >> it is 9:00. air alert? frizzy hair alert? >> hard to get big hair when i is humid out. falls down. >> flat hair alert.nd >> flat frizzy. not a good look. i which my hair most every day in the summer. it is going to be a warm one today. already warm and w humid as head into the afternoon, it will be hot and humid and alreadyok g hazy out there right now. a little mix of sun and clouds. temperatures, 79 degrees. everybody in the 70s now, we'll continue to take temperatures into theid 90s today. look at the heat index at 2:00. today is a good pool day. 97 is what it feels like by 2:00. some places feel more like 100 degrees by this especially with temperatures in the mid 90s. we have an isolated chance of a pop up shower or storm. we're starting to see a few trying to make it into the shenandoah valley. that's con

m david culver.et's get a check of your headlines. we'll start you o in annapolis where the community there is continuing to mourn the loss of five lives gunned down in the "capital gazette" building. tonight at 5:30, services will be held at st. ann's episcopal church in annapolis. >>> as california man accused of sending threatening messages to a federal official in our area. federal agents say man sent threatening e-mails to the chairman, ajit pai. he threatened to find pai's kids and kill them. he referenced preschools in arlington county. >>> we'll have >>> lauryn ricketts, you didn't need to build your graphics today. spell out h-o-t. >> that's what our direcr was saying. lauryn has one word, and it is hot. 74 is our temperatureight now. we'll take them into 90 degrees by the time w head into th 11:00 a.m. hour. feeling more like the mid 90s. take a look. it is very hot out there. the heat and humidity are only going to continue to build. we have a weather alert sunday and mond r. ht now. the w

the suspect dominik culver led deputies on a chase that ended in a crash. police arrested him when he tried to run away from the wreck. >>> some good news from the fires in lake county, the pawnee fire now 40% kahned and its growth has slowed way -- contained and its growth has slowed way down covering 200 additional acres since yesterday. however, 600 more homes are threatened and with more red flag warning conditions on the way for the weekend firefighters want to get as much containment as soon as possible. our chief meteorologist paul deanno is here with more on that. >>> tomorrow night is when the wind will pick up and the warmer, drier air will move in. that's also when a red flag warning will go into effect tomorrow night through saturday night. it's napa county, eastern sonoma county, a good chunk of lake and mendocino county. the winds will pick up gusting in the mountains to 30 to 40 miles per hour dropping the relative humidity. let's look at futurecast, which is not calling for a windy day tomorrow. as we roll through the day, 10, 15 miles per h

culver, ndria, david news4. >> and from that to this story. late physicist stephen hawng taking his place among the greatest scntists. hawking was buried atmi weter abbey today. his memorial stone is between theve ga of james darwin and isaac newton. he die in mar at the age of 7 76 after a very long battle with lou gehrig's disease. >> just arilliant nd, a tremendous story. >> his life story. >>incredible. incredible. >> awe our her. incredible. >> finally. >> i feel so bad for samara and weekend evenings. every time i worked the weekend, mornings wer fine, by the evening, it's been raining for the last six weeks. we need a break and we're getting one just in time for father's day so that's good. but it's hot. we have to take the good with the bad. nothing to complain about today, plenty of esunshine, b skies out there, wonderful weather, isn't that just a beautif picture on a friday afternoon? and just another nice stretch of weather headed our way. the humidity isuilding butot until this weekend, most likely on sunday, which of course is fa

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in alexandria, david culver, news4. >> love it.rn hole thing in here, basketball hoop? we neveret anything like that. >> great effort. it is not easy dealing with an illness we all know or helping a family member, and for the fact that he is spearheading this effort and getting all of that support. >> very cool. >>> a lot of dads want to get outside. throw some corn hole around. >> might be a movie day. go to an air conditioned theater. >> it is warm. >> 100 degrees. >> mid 90s. yeah. might as well. once you get t mid 90s. yeah. with the humidity, and it is building out there now. >> what's that? >> rocaholic. that'saholic. that's like glue. >> people will need that today. >> you will need that. ladies, it is so humid out there. frizz central across the region, not only today but beginning of the work week. the humidity is sticking with us all week. temperatures drop by wednesday. building humidity todan. again very hot today all the way through tuesday. c rainnces increase for the day tuesday as a frontal system moves through the

i'm david culver. >> i'm aie goff.eal. >> i'm real. >> he's here. >> don't act like- you were with tuss. it's like you were with the same person. >> iawarry and meghan before i saw you. >> we all saw you allver the international papers, as you were yelling at harry walking by. >> we cake on the head. >> we saw it. >> yeah, you knew what you were getting. >> welcome back, by the y. >> so much to catch up on. >> yeah. >> we've been talking about the big weather story bse there's a lot going on outside, including with what's going to be in the air. >> the weather alert day here at news 4. we have lauryn ricketts with us, tracking potentially strong storms. >> stormer storms potentially later on this afternoon. showers could be dropping a lot of rain, especially for the flood-warned areas. we have aoo lot of ongoing warnings to the west. we have rain streaming into the area. look at the camera behind this map. a lot of fog out there, too. temperatures in the upper 60s. northeast wind at 7 miles an hour. still on the muggy

he needed toeut weeds or they might do it for him or he might have to pay a fin called news4 david culver who got the hort culturist to check out his property and they found out clark was right, they're not ornamental. >> it's what you can do withve nati instead of ivy and stuff that kills your tree es. >>lark also h a small problem with not having his house number in plain sight. he gothat taken care of, too. also, you should know in case you ever get notice like clark did, you can dispute it yourself with the inspect on the notice by calling that number. >> interesting story. >>> commuter concerns. up next, a warning about a busy train line in our area as an importantafy deadline approaches. approaches. what happens if they approaches. what happens if they i'm a small business, but i have... . big dreams and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've

>>>lso ahead this morning, david culver, wille stay or will he go?ly now a freeagent. does that mean he stays with the cavaliers, or might losngeles be iis future? we'll get into that. >>> we're t kickinghe fourth of july holay off right. barbecue, how to stay safe on the fourth, and tips for redecorating your backyard. we have you covered. >>> we'll also talk to dale earnhardt jr. as he gets set to art his full-time broadcasting career when we get started on a saturday morningere on "today." >> looks like a good time. see you in 15 minutes. see you in a few, david. >>> how do you like this idea? the idea of sipping an adu beverage while out in nature. on a day like today, find aor shaded spot that. this is something the fairfax county park authoty is considering. a proposal to make it easier for you to host a party in a park with alcohol. >> reporter: whether a slow chug into the station orthaugh around carousel, the rklake park is great for all ages. a change is being considered, making it more appealing for older attenders. >> we get a lot of requ

guzman who works as an administrative assistant in culver city monday through friday, then helps hisily's construction business in lake arrowhead on the weekends was doing yard work with his mother saturday morning.. guzman says the confrontation started after some debris went onto her yard. in the video you can hear guzman telling the woman he was born and raised in the unites states and that he is not a rapist or drug dealer to which the woman replied, but our president says you are... sot: 03:19:07 "i don't blame her. i don't blame the president. i just think its morally wrong. what she is doing. she doesn't know. who we are. guzman posted the video to his facebook page which sparked hundreds of thousands of views and comments. some people praising guzman for remaining so calm, while others wrote, "i am saddened by this ignorance." guzman says he doesn't know the woman but he says he isn't angry with her either. he says he just wants to educate her and anyone else who might act this way... sot: 02:28:08 "i believe teaching people about our culture, about our traditions is the bett

david culver was on campus and explains how the deaths are motivating future >> reporter: a rising seniortyf maryland, jarred bellman is studying broadcast journalism. he's spending part of his summer on campus working and today reflecting on thursday's shoot. >> when i got back to my apartmt i was talkingo my roommate and heard rob was one of them and a couple other maryland alums. it's scary. >> reporter: three of the journalists killed have ties to the marylandollege of journalism. gerald fischman graduated from maryland in 1979. john mcnamara started his dream job here sport reporting. he went on to cover maryland athletics. rob hiassen had just begun as an adjunct professor. >> the students loved him. e was fun to h in the billing. >> reporter: lucy points out that these tragic deaths coincide with the increasingly hostile tone taken to journalists. >> these are your neighbors and friends. they go to church with you and work incredibly hard. most journalists i this country are not talking heads on cable. they are people justike the people murdered yesterday bp they work hard to do th

i work as an assistance administrator in culver city, saturday and sunday. >> you were cleaning up theroperty. >> and i work construction/landscaping. anything i can get my hands on. i don't take any days off. we're hard working people. so we had a new client. they said, hey, we need some landscaping, some yard clean-up. can you do it? i said yes. i'll be there saturday. saturday at 10:00 a.m. i was there with my mom because she actually cleans the home. do i the yardwork and she cleans the house. she was done with the cleaning. she comes out and says do you need help? i said yeah. do you want to us get blower and start from the front of the property? and next thing i know, i hear this lady yelling at my mom. go back to mexico. it's loud. you can hear in the video, my mom has the blower on and i can hear her from the other side of the property yelling at my mom. i rush over and i say, hey, what's your problem? and she said you're all illegal. go back to mexico. and i say, i'm a united states citizen. what are you talking about? and she said, you're a rapist. you're an animal. and you c

i'm david culver. it is the last day in june.the fourth of july holiday. angie goff among them. she is off this morning. folks also looking ahead to some extreme heat around here. we've got a nice wind blowing this morning here in northwest. we're going to need all the relief we can get. it is going to get really hot around here. storm team 4's lauryn ricketts is tracking some of this intense hein that is m its way in, lauryn. >> that heat is going to . contin david, that wind is actually blowing from the south. nice little breeze. since it is blowing from the south, it is all humid air. it is just really pushing in some of that humidity from the deep south and filleritering ito the mid-atlantic. a nice breeze, but it won't be any relief, unfortunately, because it is comrogthe south. good news is -- i guess good news or bad news, we don't have any rain in thefo cast. high pressure in charge. up and down the east coast leve. ite cooler on the beaches due to a little bit of an ocean breeze. the bays usually get it. up and down the

news 4 david culver is justack from campus. david, how are they processing all of this?ou that this is incredibly difficult for them. the dean of the college of journalism is also a journalist. they tend to put o the emotion. instead after a tragedy they go right to work. they emotionally crumble later on. her first thought watching yesterday's news unfold at t"th capital gazette", we know people there. she's right. it includes gerald fischm and john mcnamara who had often proudly called maryland his alma matter. this spring rob took an adjunct pro tes or role. lucy recalls recent e-mail she got from rob as he finished his first semester. >> it was a great year and being in a classroom is like being in a really cool newsroom which of course it is. the students loved him. he was fun to have in the building. he was very good at doing it. >> given the tense climate for news and jonalists, i asked the dean about recruitment and where things stand. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, i'm going to share her response to that. uris mayise you. attracting young journalists. it's interes

in northern virginia, david culver, news 4. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, david explains how those against the ruling plan to respond. you can head to the nbc washington app for continuing coverage of today's decision and more reaction from both sides of this debate. >>> right now vice president mike pence is in brazil on a multi-day tour of latin america and later this week he and dhs secretary are met to meet with presidents of kwaguatemhia. here in wton we saw immigration demonstrations outside the supreme court including a group of children who traveled here from new jersey. they have parents who have been detained by i.c.e. they traveled here to meet with lawmakers on capitol hill. >>> now to a story you will see only on news 4. vandals targeting a local church. slashing a w cushions and smashing prayer candles. it's not theim first t this place of worship has been the subject of damage, but things appear to be escalating. pat collins is live at the beth --h bethlehem chu in fairfax. this has been going on for weeks, pat. >> reporter: indeed, jim. the bethlehem lutheran church since m

guzman who works as an administrative assistant in culver city monday through friday, then helps his family's construction business in lake arrowhead on the weekends was doing yard work with his mother saturday morning.. guzman says the confrontation started after some debris went onto her yard. in the video you can hear guzman telling the woman he was born and raised in the unites states and that he is not a rapist or drug dealer to which the woman replied, but our president says you are... sot: 03:19:07 "i don't blame her. i don't blame the president. i just think its morally wrong. what she is doing. she doesn't know. who we are. guzman posted the video to his facebook page which sparked hundreds of thousands of views and comments. some people praising guzman for remaining so calm, while others wrote, "i am saddened by this ignorance." guzman says he doesn't know the woman but he says he isn't angry with her either. he says he just wants to educate her and anyone else who might act thisway... sot: 02:28:08 "i believe teaching people about our culture, about our traditions is the b

ahead at 5:00, he talks with david culver about what drew him here and how he hopes his studies willfight for freedom and justice. we'll seeho you with stories plus a good deal more coming up on this soggy friday. but it is friday, the good part. >> thank you. >>> folks, have you heard about the fitnessit crazeerally sweeping the ination. >>t's called plogging. you pick up trash while you're running. it started in sweden. epeople that h tried it says body york without. >> you're carrying a bag so itg ts heavier. you're squatting as you run. >> a good workt for skand good for the environment. you decide to give this a try, make sure you wear clubs.tive there are also apps to see where fellow ploggers have been. i think it's a great idea. >> everybody wins. >> i hate ash, so i pick it up even fi weren even if i weren't jogging. >> you would? >> i hydo. >> don't you go through my? neighborhood >> you should be picking that ue yolf, leon. >>> folks, have you heard the one about rain in the weekend forecast? >> not a joke. we're in for another wet weekend across the area. we're traing the

she happens to see an officer in culver city pulled over on the side of the road so she jumps out, tries to get the officer's attention but that's when the exboyfriend allegedly rams into both of their cars. now what you're seeing here is the aftermath. the police car crushed. it was sent into a cement pillar. the officer was injured as well. we're following breaking news there in southern california. we'll bring you any latest developments. >>> 5:06 right now, new details for you on a murder mystery in southern california with a bay area tie. police say the 35-year-old father on a family camping trip was gunned down with two children, a 4-year-old and 2-year-old by his side. this all happened at the popular malibu state park and seen it on several tv shows and movies. this morning there are no known suspect or motive for that killing. that victim tristan valdebt, a chemist who attended u.c. berkeley is just about to -- just about to relocate with his wife and kids back to the bay area. friends and family members are remembering him as a family man who would do anything for his family. >

police arrested dominik culver after a short chase and crash. he was taken to the same jail where his friend is still in custody. >>> oakland leaders are warning drivers about what they're calling the summer of paving. city officials hope to repave four times more miles than they have in recent years this summer. east 16th street and 37th avenue is one of the first streets getting repaved. this campaign is set to fix just 25 miles of the 800 miles of oakland roads. that's far more than the previous three years which averaged just 6 miles. crews were able to ramp up their work thanks to funding from measure kk and the state's gas tax. >> the common threads that oaklanders have from the north hills to deep east oakland is they're frustrated in the condition of their roads. >> the goal is to have the work done before the winter months. >>> a reprieve for some marin county golfers, the san geronimo course will not be sold and turned into open space at least for the time being anyway. the 18 hole course is spread across 157 acres near sir francis dra

clark called news 4's david culver who had the city's horticulturalist check out clark was there.. he was right. there are no weeds in his yard. ou i think of myself as an example of what ycan do with native stuff instead of ivy and stuff that kill >> the city found the majority of the plants are ornamental. ey sayihey wll also provide more training for inspectors to recognize these types of native plants. in case you do get a no like clark did, you caniste it yourself with the inspector listed on the notice. just call that number. old school style. >> yeah. a i notice he ha virginia flag t-shirt on. >> let's go to melissa. melissa, how about the situation? >> big problem, guys, here this morning with this big issue in gaitsbur gaithersburg. take a look at some of the picks. we're talking about westbound 370 here. the ramp tohouthbound 270 down because of the overturned tractor-trailer. this is going to be a big issr fo a lot of folks. let's take a look the map. right now you can see that closure there in purple here ow this morning ng you where things are shut down. as far as gett