this is in the 3100 block of chesapeake drive in dumfries. they tell us that when they arrived to the scene, that they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound and that victim was pronounced dead on the scene. they say that they are going to give us more information here shl just to put this area in place for you, this is about half a mile from the river oaks shopping center and there is a walmart close by. looks like is this a group of apartments. so stay with news 4 as we continue more on this breaking story. >>> it's 5:24. 2k5 today on capitol hill, anthony fauci will speak on the zika virus. he will be joined by members from the world health organization. last month fauci says his agency does not have the funds it needs to fully filed the zika spread. >>> and today a connecticut history teacher will receive a huge honor at the white house. johana hayes will be named national teacher of the year. president obama will award hayes the honor and recognize the 2016 timists. [000:24:57;00] big congratulation. >>> coast guard veteran will rest

and killed overnight in prince william county officers called to the 3100 block chesapeake drive dumfrieser 1 this morning and search of that area is going to have a -- whether the victim was found inside the apartment or outside in the parking lot. >> some of you have frustrating commutes after train derailment in northeast d.c. over the weekend. the brunswick line will continue to operate on service three trains 892, 878 and 880 traveling and passengers traveling to d.c. may transfer rockville or silver

big delays will take about of dumfries down into fredericksburg. take a look at 395 northbound. the right shoulder is blocked right onto the 14th street bridge, so slight jam as a result of that, but that could be a lot worse. as you head out of d.c., looks like northbound to 95 asked eastern avenue is going to be a little bit heavy. northbound, most of the issues are closer to the 11th street bridge as you head out of town. northbound. these delaysre for sure. back to you. thank you so much. travelers are also lining up across the country for a quick weekend getaway. airlines, and even volunteers are doing whatever they can to try to ease the weight -- wait. man volunteered to play his violin to help sooth passengers' nerves. >> good afternoon. 38 million americans are expected to travel this weekend, and 2.5 million will do it right air. that could translate into some very long lines at airports across the nation. have been things pretty steady. you can see now, a few dozen people in line, but nothing like we have seen in chicago and charlotte where thousands of people have be

in dumfries, news 4. >>> to politics now and a few virginia elections. today voters in the city of fairfax will elect a mayor, incumbent mayor scott silverthorn faces a challenge from thomas, clifton, vienna, haymarket and the plains also holdi ining elections today. >>> to the pex elections, indiana voters are casting their primary voters now. 57 republican delegates and 92 democratic delegates are at stake. a new nbc news/survey monkey poll out this morning shows gop front-runner donald trump expanding his lead. trump now has a 34% lead over ted cruz among registered republicans. the poll has a 2-point margin of error. it also shows more than eight out of ten americans believe cruz only tapped former rival carly fiorina as a v.p. to reinvigorate his campaign. our new poll also shows donald trump is catching up in a potential general election matchup against hillary clinton. among democratic candidates clinton now has her widest lead over bernie sanders since march, 54 to 40%. still a majority of likely democratic voters say they would like sanders to s

. >>> it looks like a political spec could impact elections today in dumfries, been political opponents if convict order petty larceny, foreman faces up to a year in jail and a $2500 fine. >>> and upset over an in-yacht response to request for homeless shelter sites. maybes in ward 3 have opposed on plan, so cheh asked them toe review three other sites and she said the report she received lacked effort and she plans to ask for another review. >>> well, it's not your typical height. usually a thieves are interested in cash, jewelry, electronics perhaps. but police are now looking for a bathtub bandit. >> sure enough, time i got upstairs and they figured it out, he was gone. >> police are looking for this man whom they say used a face credit card and identification to steal a designer bathtub from union hardware in bethesda. it not any old bathtub. wow. if you have any information, character police. >>> an animal shelter in virginia is hoping a ghost story can inspire people. this is lilly. she was born with only two legs apparently. some high schoolers in that area wanted to give lilly a

it is approaching the prince william county parkway through dumfries.hree lanes. for folks on the 270 corridor you're slow from germantown to 109 in hyattsville. escape folks trying to get through georgetown and to frederick. westbound 66 also slowing due to accident blocking the right lane. back to you. michelle: thank you. leon: hope the weather will hold out. michelle: yeah. today was great. fe leon: that is for sure. humidity is coming back. doug: more humid. still looking like tomorrow is the best outdoor weather day of the three-day weekend. let's get started. live look at the national harbor. you can see the serve off the water of the potomac. it's 80's. we drop to lower 80's after sunset. good to go for the first pitch at the national park at 7:05. 842 and partly sunny skies. can't rule out thunderstorm this everything. update now. flash flood warning in effect for southwestern frederick county virginia. northeastern shenandoah county. watch for the flash flooding. heavy rain reported in that area. close up to show the area from the woodstock to

prince william county police are investigating a murder, and kristin wright is live there dumfries nower: good morning. a school bus just came and picked up kids, so horrible to think of what just happened a little while ago. it's a homicide investigation. police spent much of the morning by these apartments, this is or cha orchard landing. one man is dead. police came to the door of a neighbor wanting to know if she heard anything, saw anything. we'll keep you posted. so far no suspect information from police. >>> it is official, the olympic flame has arrived. we want to take you live to brasilia, capital of brazil. that is the actual flame. organizers say this thing will travel 12,000 miles by road, nearly 10,000 miles by air. we know that it will reach hundreds of cities and towns and 12,000 torchbearers is the plan leading up he the ten first torchbearers include star athletes from brazil as well as esteemed math made tesch mathematician and 12-year-old refugee. more on our nbc washington app. >>> 4 things for know before you head out, as angie just mentioned, the olympic torch is

are looking at areas just south of masses but especially as we get to dumfries, quantico, , west of route one, and that is the area we are seeing the heaviest downpours. a pretty good clip. this is an area of very heavy rain. what is happening a few hundred feet, this is the product of the doppler radar and these are strong winds off the surface. some of these guests will be 50 miles an hour where the heavy rain will bring the winds down to ground level. like pouring water across the table and spreads out. that is what the straight line of wins do. this is what it looks like on doppler. you are looking west towards the storm -- this is the live look at the camera towards fredericksburg. this is a powerful little system getting ready to move. as the storm gets closer in the next 12 to 15 minutes, all that will change. let's look at the futurecast. showers and storms through the evening hours. heaviest the south of the metro every now and then tonight, tomorrow evening, thursday into friday from each of these have potential for heavy rain. the next few days, localized flooding will be a pro

. >>> lead testing will continue this week on wells near a dominion virginia power plant in dumfries.ghbors say they're afraid to drink their well water because lead showed up in some of the testing showed in-consistment results and they are retesting the samples. earlier this month, the power company began releasing millions of gallons of coal ash water into quantico creek. >>> make sure you are buckled up on your ride to work or school today. police across the country are reminding you to click it or ticket. the national highway traffic safety administration says nearly half of the people who died in crashes in 2013 were not wearing seatbelts. if the crash happened at night, that number soared to nearly 60%. arlington county police chief says it's especially important to buckle up as we approach memorial day weekend. >> it's important especially at high volume, people going to the beach, heading out to barbecues it's ponts befoimportant to mak their seat belt clicks. >> the campaign runs through june 6. it's a life saving measure. >>> begin buzzing this week but you have to take a t

. >>> a man is behind bars for a murder in dumfries, virginia.nce william county police say he shot and killed jamal bryant early tuesday morning. officers say the two m arranged to meet at the orchard landing apartments on chesapeake drive at the time of the shooting. >>> new criticism of the mayor's plan to overhaul how d.c. helps the homeless. phil mendelson says the plan will cost too much money and the mayor wants to pair down the general shelter and build eight new shelters one in each ward. that would cost about $600 million. mendelson wants to save money by moving some of the new shelters there privately owned land to land owned by the city instead. >>> to the campaign trail where the republican party seems to be increasingly split on whether to support donald trump. paul ryan says he's not ready to do so and the bush presidents say they are san diego otaying convention all support. but trump is find something report. a he pumped $90 million into various candidates in 2012. hillary clinton cannot seem to shake the investigation into her p

and killed overnight in prince william county officers called to the 3100 block chesapeake drive dumfries after 1 this morning and search of that area is going to have a -- whether the victim was found inside the apartment or outside in the parking lot. >> some of you have frustrating commutes after train derailment in northeast d.c. over the weekend. the brunswick line will continue to operate on service three trains 892, 878 and 880 traveling and passengers traveling to d.c. may transfer rockville or silver all trains end in silver spring. this evening all three trains originate silver spring and make all three stops and cause of derailment is under investigation. >> and also today national transportation safety board is set to give final report on what caused smoke to fill the la fonlt metro station in jaep of 2015. 100 were hurt and 400 were on smoke when smoke faced a tunne tunnel. . >> standing water from last night's big storms. >> melanie alnwick yoyps us live, melanie, what a mess last night who could sleep. that's least of worries good morning. >> i know, i had two kids in bed w

roz: in dumfries, i'm roz plater, abc7 ne alison: that is it at "abc7 news at 5:00".ut right now at 6:00, we are following the breaking news near the white house. what we know about the man shot. and what eyewitnesses tell us about the incident. a big spike in shoplifting at a popular mall. what authorities say is behind this. the new team of officers ready to take the thieves on. and a big shakeup at metro today. we'll tell you about the employees who were fired today. announcer: from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. leon: we continue to follow breaking news this hour. suspect, armed suspect shot by secret service after allegedly firing at the white house. maureen: this is unfolding in the last two and a half hours on executive drive in northwest d.c. we first brought this to you as breaking news at 4:00. leon: the senior political correspondent scott thuman standing by in the newsroom but we will start with tom roussey who is ou where this is happening. he is live now with the new details that are coming in. tom, fill us in. tom: all the streets are still s

and today construction will begin on a new elementary school in dumfries, virginia. potomac shores elementary school will help ease some overcrowding at schools in the eastern part of the heritage boulevard near kirby drive. potomac shores is on track to welcome students in the fall of 2017. >>> a sidwell friends sixth grader will be one of 54 competitors at the national geographic bee here in washington today. max will be quizzed on his geography skills in the 28th annual competition. top prize is $50,000 and a trip to alaska. >> they could learn a lot more about geography. >> $50,000 scholkocholarship mo not free cash. >> that's almost nine months at half vari harvard. >> if that. >> over the last 30 days, we've had 25 days with clouds and/or rain and 19 of those 30 have been below 70 degree. our average eye this time of the year is 77. yesterday's high, only 58 with all the monday? back to work, back to school, back to reality. kind of a rainy and shourry start. everywhere is wet from overnight raindrops. the rain will be gradually coming to an end overnight tonig

. >>> officers on the scene in dumfries. just after 1:00 this morning, he was pronounced dead at the scene so far, we don't know the name or a motive in the shooting. >>> an arrest last night in columbia heights. this happened near northwest harvard street. the victim was an security guard now in stable condition. and warren bibs is charged with assault with intent to kill. >>> pretty creepy incident in adelphi. prince george's just released this video of a peg epintom. they say he walked onto a back deck, looked in the back of the home and began to perform an obscene act. it happened on march 2nd. no contact with the people inside the home. but call police if you know this man. >>> we could soon learn the identity of an isis member killed in battle -- service member. the service member was a navy seal and helping kurdish fire when he was killed by enemy gunfire. he is the third american soldier killed in iraq since we pulled out in 2011. >>> republican side, a win for donald trump could pave the way for him nomination. a wi

still a real messy commute comte though up fredericksburgck towards stafford and intord ando dumfriese that coming up i-95. it's not dry north and west a but it is drier. temperatures this morning inatur the 50's. nothing too terribly chillyy c here. here it's 51 for pittsburgh and a 46 degrees for chicago. chica this is futurecast. futurec notice it is picking up thep rain to the south of us. probably not picking up as much rain as there is to thee o south of us but it's on -- o-- it's doing pretty good. g late this afternoon here'sno h 1 o'clock or early in the afternoon but 1 o'clock a fewcka showers around.ow aro we start to break into abreato little bit of sunshine lateat day and the sunshine todayshinet will actually help to driveri some showers and a couple thiso morning's. after we get through thiswe afternoon and this evening it ge does look like the trend is conditions. ns looking at your memorial day d weekend forecast, storm isto possible pretty much each day e buact we get into a summertimeut pattern, okay.ern, oka so, temperatures will be ins the 80's.wi it will be humid

listen, before we go we wante to show you something awesomewe happening right now.g t n going down in dumfries army sergeant matthew white being b surprised today with a new homem completely mortgage free. fre >> sergeant white established -- enlisted in the army in 200700 during his second deployment ton afghanistan he was injured on an diss mounted foot patrol by an ied.. what a wonderful moment. men >> kudos to you.. >> as we get ready to celebratea the weekend.the weekend >> thank you for your service. c >> one last weather word. one ls hot today,t humid, too.oo humid the next few days and fewy pretty good looking holidayolid even it's all right.t's alrig >> you know what, make sure s tomorrow we're zip tripping. >> yay! >> zip tripping. national harbor. >> announcer: live from new york city, it's "the wendy williams show". >> how you doin'? the kids have come to play today. you won't believe what i'm about to tell you. with all due respect, my girls are always turned out. i give it to you straight, no chasers. >> announcer: now here's wendy. >> wendy: yes. thanks for watching our show! we