just in fairfax county alone.ou're going to have to deal with that as you head back to work and roll around. give yourself some extra time as you head out and get back into the routine and expect that it is going to take some more time to smooth out as you get back into your routine. now for a check of the rest of the morning commute, melissa mollet is tracking a metro problem. >> hi, good morning. metro problem, red line delays because of a track problem outside of bethesda. delays in both directions this morning. 95, prince william parkway looks good. a little bit of volume headed northbound. southbound at joplin road, one lane is getting by. prince george's county looking good right now. no real major issues. b.w. parkway as you approach the beltway a tad slow. chuck? >> all right, outside right now in the weather department, we have a clear sky over washington this morning. not even a cloud in our eastern sky. sun is not up for another ten minutes or so. rain chances will be increasing though as we go later on

first day of school in fairfax county. there are about 1.1 million people in fairfax county.ne in every six residents is a public school student. and they'll be many of them at the bus stops this morning. here's your bus stop forecast as we start our first day of school in fairfax county. we'll have kind of muggy conditions. kind of cool now. temperatures here right around 70 degrees. low 70s between 8:00 a.m. it's already up around 75 to as high as 80 degrees by mid-morning. now let's check the roads wither moe traffic around. what's going on, melissa? >> right now, tom, we have a problem here on the red line. we are single tracks between medical center and van ness. so we pushed that out as well and we have been watching that on first 4 traffic on twitter. 355 there at old hundred road. do have a crash in that intersection with 109. seeing a bit of a slowdown here. southbound 270 as you approach germantown. down to the beltway, you're fine at 16 minutes on travel times. outer loop, looking quite good. in virginia right now, no major problems. keeping our fingers crossed at

the fleet is about to roll out in fairfax county for the first time this school season.k about the bus stop forecast. >> it always takes me -- [ multiple voices ] >> it takes me about 20 seconds to process would he's saying. it's going to be hot today. >> on those buss that are rolling out today -- buses that are rogging out today. -- rolling out today. [ laughter ] >>> sunshine. no rain in the forecast but we do have much needed rain in the forecast for tomorrow and into thursday. let's take a look how we're starting off on your michael & son camera. a gorgeous sunrise out there. not a cloud in the sky. today will be very sunny and it's just going to be hot. we're adding 20 degrees to this so even though we're back to school, summer is here for another day. 90 degrees tomorrow. winds are out of the south, southwest which will add even more humidity than yesterday. here's your planner. 72 by 7:00 in the morning. on the way home a scorcher so make sure you have the sunglasses ready for your drive home. lower 90s. mid-90s for parts through lexington and indianapolis. they'

stoughton is staying at fairfax courthouse.he should have been with his men, and he would regret that mistake. mosby would have dinner with a man by the name of norman chancellor, the mayor of middleburg. mosby would write when he left the house, left the place of norman chancellor, he knows he is going to go to fairfax courthouse that night, and he writes in his memoirs, "i shall mount the stars tonight or sink lower than plummet ever sounded." mosby was an educated man. i do not know if he really said it, but i love that quote. [laughter] they made their way to fairfax courthouse. it was cold. there was snow on the ground, there was rain. mosby hoped to get into fairfax courthouse by midnight. it was really dark, and a part of mosby's command got disconnected, and it took them several hours to get back together. and they finally arrived at fairfax courthouse at 2:00 in the morning on 9 march, 1863. this is a diagram of the courthouse. mosby and his men would come in from fairfax station, from the south. he would capture a cou

this is right around city of fairfax, fairfax toward manassas, one area we are seeing that. i will go ahead and zoom on in here and show you right or wrong, fairfax, 123, here is 123 here, state of fairfax really seeing that very heavy rain, a light of lining thing associated with this developed back toward clifton, manassas and manassas park, see that along 28, fairly heavy rain into that area, too. we move farther to the west, where we have seen the strongest storms. look at this. a ton of lightning. this is just down to the south of luray, more storms to the southwest of the warrenton area. these aren't moving really fast and they pulse up and then they pulse right back down. as they do that, they send out these boundaries and that's exactly what's happening around our region. that's what we have to watch. the boundaries will kick off more showers and storms and all be short lived. here is one to the east of charlestown, harper he is ferry, the city of frederick, zoom in and show where you this one is, 15, here is frederick, seeing some of that rain making its way a along

it's a brand-new idea, never done before here in fairfax county. sam: more than 188,000 students attended the fairfax county public school, the 10th largest in the nation and now 57,000 of its high school students will get more sleep and school start times have been pushed back an hour. >> hoping they'll be more bright eyed and bushy tailed and we'll see what happens. sam: last year it was voted to start the school year later and adolescence have been shown to do better with more sleep. >> it feels like our students will be alert and ready to learn, school startsing at 7:20 it was difficult for our students, particularly high school students. sam: fairfax county has more than 1,600 school buses, many of which will be on the road in the evening commute. if you're out coming home from work, remember to slow down. more than 250,000 kids across northern virginia will be walking home from the bus stop this afternoon. reporting from fairfax county, 'm sam sweeney, abc7 news. >> you're students started their first day at francis scott key in arlington cou

a man reached out to us who used to work as a police officer in fairfax county and can hear the fear in his voice. he said he's terrified he could develop cancer after working for years in the police station, and he needed help from 7 "on your side." >> i've never been more afraid of dieing in my life. >> for 16 years, he worked the streets in fairfax county as a police officer, but it's the work he did inside the police station that scared him most. it's a 23-year-old building that earned the chilling nickname. >> the cancer station. >> 7 "on your side" learned that 13 people working here have battled cancer, all of them under the age o 50. three of them already died. >> i don't think it's a coincidence. >> katherine buried her mother last june. she worked here 15 years. she was 45. >> if my mom was still alive, she would be hearsayire saying time to get out. >> last july, the department tetested air and water a and we the results which called for no corrective action but radon was not tested. and benzene a leading airborne carcinogene was also not tested. >> it's possible these cou

i'm 7 "on your side" investigator. >> fear set in at a fairfax county police station, where employees and a number of police officers, an alarming number o them have been diaiagnosed with cancer. they tell the government watch dog invesgator that the county hasn't done enough. >> the investigation started back in february with a tip. a man reached out to us who used to work as a police officer in fairfax county and i can hear the fear in his voice. he said he's terrified he could develop cancer after working for years in the police station, and he needed help from 7 "on your side." >> i've never been more afraid of dieing in my life. >> for 16 years, he worked the streets in fairfax county as a police officer, but it's the work he did inside the police station that scared him most. it's a 23-year-old building that earned the chilling nickname. >> the cancer station. >> 7 "on your side" learned that 13 people working here have battled cancer, all of them under the age of 50. three of them already died. >> i d't think it's a coincidence. >> katherine buried her mother last june. she wor

santa maria is held in fairfax county without bond. >>> d.c.'s ambulance problems go back at least a decade and tonight the mayor muriel bowser announces what she hopes will be a temporary solution at least, private ambulances for less serious calls. bruce leshan reports the move could save lives. >> reporter: twice this month alone d.c. firefighters have had to rush desperately sick young children to the hospital in a fire truck because all the ambulances were tied up. >> it makes no sense that babies have to die because the ambulance cannot get to it in time. >> reporter: 5-month-old tyqwan sumter did not make it. surae chinn talked to relatives earlier this month. >> that's the way they treat us like a number. you all don't need no ambulance. ride in a fire truck. >> reporter: d.c.'s new fire chief thinks he has a solution. deploy city medics to every 911 call for help. firefighters would transport people with life threatening emergencies, but a private ambulance under contract with the city would take people with less serious problems. >> th

we do have volume starting to pick up, however, in areas like fairfax. again, that's typical for your morning ride. from chain bridge road to l street northwest a20-minute commute. northbound on i-95 on the virginia side from richmond highway to i-395, a 10-minute commute. we're doing fairly well with a few trouble spots around the metro. we'll send it over you to. >>> it's 6:17. in the news right now, military helicopters are now being used to rescue people in japan from flooding triggered by two daze of heavy rain just north of tokyo. 20 inches fell in the span of just 24 hours. one woman is still missing hours after a landslide hit houses there. >>> meanwhile europe continues to deal with an in flux of migrants. just yesterday more than 300 refugees from iraq and syria walked on foot through a highway on the danish-german border. the danish police were forced to close the highway to traffic as they crossed. >>> this is a story that will be trending and it's buzzing on twitter. two years ago he was playing at the u.s. open but he won't be talking tenni

he resigned in april from fairfax county police as a public information officer. three years' probation with the first year in a half way house. that's the punishment for a man who pleaded guilty to a beating on board a metro train. it shows him knocking another person out. prosecutors say he got into an argument with a couple of teenagers last june. he punched one of them and knocked out another person who tried to intervene. >>> some good news now in a tragic story in virginia. the woman who survived the deadly ambush on live tv is out of the hospital and back home this evening. vicky gardener says she still has a long road to recovery but she thanked everyone for their support. she was seriously wounded when a man shot and killed his former colleagues during a live tv interview. she is focused on uniting the roanoke community and leaving a positive legacy in the wake of that tragedy. >> now to capitol hill, it appears president obama now has enough support in the senate to keep the iran nuclear deal in tact. three democratic senators announced their support tod

what will fairfax county schools look like with more cuts? garza is worried. >> any business leader knows, any family knows that you can't continue to respond to increased needs, increased costs without any new revenue and it's impossible to cut year after year after year and not have some appreciable impact on our system. >> i guess is in like eliminating the freshmen team? >> reporter: today fcps launched this budget tool on its website with numerous options for cutting items out of the budget. >> you can do a couple thing. you can either charge a $150 fee or 200 fee. so we charge the 200 fee and then we bring it up to our proposal box and now we're only at 43.7 to go. >> reporter: south lakes ptsa president andy siegel found it difficult. >> i think it's going to give a parent a very clear view of what the realities are and what they want for their kids of. >> reporter: karen garza hopes that budgets tool will help give her and the school board -- budget tool will help give her and the school board feedback and she's also hoping that it he

i am going to talk and find out what is going on in the fairfax hospital. hospital confirmed they have this petition, but they would not tell us anything else. his family says that once 7 on your side started calling the hospital, asking questions, they were contacted and asked to schedule a meeting for tomorrow to get answers, or so they hope. they say tomorrow they will file formal complaints with the hospital and other agencies. live in fairfax, joce sterman, abc 7 news. now, an apology from a former d.c. rabbi who was convicted of secretly recording dozens of women in a ritual bath. tonight he is releasing a letter, written from behind bars. richard reeve has what the letter says. richard? these acts ofn, voyeurism occurred in this building behind me. prosecutors say that as many yes women were secretly recorded by rabbi barry friend al -- barry freundel in the ritual baths. he was considered a leader in the modern orthodox movement. he was arrested in october 2014. he faced 52 counts of voyeurism, sentenced to six and a half years in jail, for but into

this is fairfax. they have all the resources in the world. if they didn't do it correctly, then shame on them. >> reporter: fairfax county naacp president said mckenna's treatment might have been different if she would have been white. >> i think she probably would have gotten the medical attention she needed. she would not have the guys in the ebola outfits coming to get her out of her cell. they would not have been trying to take her to alexandria to another jail. if anything, they would have been taking her to a hospital. >> reporter: the sheriff's department controls the jail. mckenna's death came as the county's other law enforcement agency, the police force, was under heavy scrutiny over the use of excessive force in the john geer shooting death. the commonwealth attorney ray morrogh has decided not to follow charges in the shooting death. >> a theft suspect was tased when an officer took him into custody prompting another investigation. >>> starting this week metro riders will see a change at stadium armory station. only blue lines wil

he wants fairfax county police to apologize to his nephew. >> i've had some experience with fairfax andt right. >> reporter: marty jackson was discurbed after seeing this cell phone video of his nephew getting hit by the officer's stun gun. >> it's really hurtful considering he has a young child and a wife. my niece is someone that's really dear to may heart and really shaken by this. >> reporter: elton cansler accused of stealing sunglasses at suntrust bank on rose hill drive thursday afternoon is when it started. a seven year veteran of the department shows up and you can hear the officer ordering cansler to the ground. but police say cansler resisted arrest, assaulted the officer, and repeatedly put his hands in his pocket where there was a fold up knife. >> i'm looking at the video. and -- i'm slowing the video down and i'm like -- unless he's superman, and can look through the guy's possibilities you -- pockets, i don't see his hand going in towards his pockets. >> i'm not going to second guess the officer. >> reporter: that's fairfax county police chief on monday. >> the officer c

this past summer he earned a guilty plea in a 2005 sex assault case in fairfax. >> he's okay and he's behind bars and we want -- she deserves to have full recognition for the life that was. >> in each of the past cases, we've seen jill determined to show her face. >> i want him to know that i'm not going away after six years, i'm not going away, and i know what he did. >> we've learned matthew will keep the same defense attorneys for both cases, but prosecutors have no plans to combine the trials. pat and jim, matthew's trial for graham's murder is set to begin in july of 2016. >> so interesting. this is about her legacy, what a brave woman she is to talk. >> david culver, thanks. >>> four men are in custody and police are looking for a fifth in connection with a shootout that left a man dead. this is the man police are still trying to track down. his name is alvin jones. investigators say a fight broke out this past weekend in a parking lot in gainesville, virginia, and gunshots rang out. claude jackson died. investigators say the fight stemmed from an argument a week earlier. >>> ne

police in fairfax county say it was the appropriate use of force when an officer had to tase a suspect. thanks for joining us. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm bruce johnson. tonight the family of the man in that video said he's disabled, but police stand by their officer and say the suspect was resisting arrest. let's go to ellison barber who tells us both sides have video to support their claims. >> reporter: fairfax police say their officer used an appropriate amount of force. the family of the man in that video elton cansler disagrees and now they have an attorney. >> it does not seem clear from the video that the suspect did anything to warrant the tasering. >> reporter: dr. robert wiseberg does not represent cansler's family, but he specializes in criminal procedure at stanford law. after hiwatcelng conl phe video of a fairfax county police officer using a stun gun to subdue 35-year-old elton cansler, wiseberg has many questions. >> it's not possible to detect from the video any movement of the hands at all. something caused the officer to fire the taser at that point. all i can say is t

. >>> today we're expected to hear from the family of a man tased by fairfax county police. video appears to show 35-year- old elton cansler being shocked. fairfax county police are standing by the officer's involve saying cansler had a weapon and was resisting arrest. cansler's family says he has cerebral palsy and can't control his movements. >>> police need your help finding a missing woman from howard county. if you've seen this woman, 82- year-old mildred rice, she was last seen yesterday leaving howard county general hospital. she was driving a four-door lexus sedan, metallic gray. they're concerned to her welfare due to her age-related health problems. >>> new information this morning on the jesse matthew case. a judge here at the fairfax county courthouse received a letter claiming the accused killer is a victim himself. the judge received a letter from jesse matthew's ex- girlfriend yesterday claiming that matthew was repeatedly raped as a child by three different people and she is convinced that trauma is linked to the charges against him. matthew faces capital mur

. >> also, the fairfax county police child exploitation unit tracking pedophiles. >> they're asking for n naked selfies and inappropriate videos and there asking to meet the kids. >> thathowing up time and time again in 2015 court records. victims target online, through faceboo and at least one child important case through a sony play station.. >> i just was as stoneished at myself. >> that report aired acrss the country. anand the mother of a teenage mother in alabama, lured away from a predator onlinanted to contact our fairfax county detectives and he gave her critical idane. i'm 7 "on your side" investigator. >> fear set in at aairfax county police station, where employees and a number of poli ofcers, an alarming number of them have been diagnosed with cancer. they tell the government wch dog investigator that the county hasn't done enough. >> the investigation started back in february with a tip. a man reached out to us who used to work ass a police officer in fairfax county and i can hear the fear in his voice. he said he's terrified he could develop cancer after working for years

the close up radar in green in fairfax and loudoun county. farther south, the area in yellow, south of warrenton and fauquier county. these showers getting closer to washington, nearby suburbs, prince george's and montgomery counties in the next hour or so. temperatures are cool. in the 50s north of the metro area. mid-60s in washington. mid to upper 60s around the chesapeake bay. i'll show you the hour-by-hour threat of rain in a few minutes. >> we'll check in with you. breaking news out of prince william county. a man is dead after a double shooting in gainsville. police found two victims in a parking lot before 2:00 this morning. both men had been shot, both rushed to the hospital. a 23-year-old man died, a 22-year-old in critical condition. a third person grazed by a bullet. the suspect left the scene in a light colored suv. >>> a sexual assault leads police to a metro station. police are looking for this man. just after midnight, he ran into the wheaton station and down a tunnel. police chased him into the tunnel, but he did get away. of

it was from february 3 inside the fairfax county jail. natasha mckenna naked in clearly struggling throughout the encounter. battling with a team of deputies who knew this could be a difficult situation based on her previous behavior while in custody. >> you said you wouldn't kill me. reporter: the moment natasha mckenna these are sell members worked toponse team subdue her using handcuffs and leg restraints. >> get on the ground! reporter: suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, she continues struggling as debbie's work to gain control. -- deputies work to gain control. she was being taken to alexandria on the charge of assaulting a police officer there. debbie's to play a taser. -- the foyerhe boy taser. four times total during more than 20 minute struggle. at one point she lost consciousness before eventually being taken away in an amulets. she later died at the hospital. the medical examiner ruled her death accidental, the result of an excited delirium. mental illness patient to become so agitated that her heart or body fun

in fairfax county, both students and teachers are looking at big changes. we're talking about start times and teacher pay. in a new ffew minutes, we'll ha more details. and thank you for sharing your picturings of your kids. we are going to show some of them coming up at 11:15. keep the pictures coming. you can send them over twitter or facebook or e-mail them. >>> today a lot of folks in our area are back at school and back to work, including congress. they're back in session right now. if you drove to work, you saw how everybody is adding to the crawl on the streets. it's a september slow down. coming up, our transportation reporter will break down how we're coping today. >>> right now bright sun shine pouring down out of a blue sky. live view from the storm team 4 tower camera. looking west and overlooking montgomery county in the distance, an absolutely beautiful day underway. there's another view from the live tower camera. washington, a little bit of haze and humidity hanging in the air. that sun jumping up in a clear sky and warming the temperatures.

>> new response to this video from the fairfax county police chief. the new angle we're seeing tonight, and why the chief says the officer did the right thing. >>> another shutdown showdown. ted cruz cut off on the senate floor. >> i field the floor. >> with the clock ticking to keep the government open. >>> and firefighters respond to more problems on metro tonight, while riders prepare for changes, starting with tomorrow's commute. >>> first tonight, we have breaking news in the district. four people shot in the span of less than three hours tonight. and we just learned one of them has died. >> news4's megan fitzgerald just got to the scene of the second shooting. it's at 46th and g street, not far from benning road. meagan, what you learning? >> reporter: jim, this call came in around 10:00. you can see behind me a very active scene. police have taped off the area here as they continue their investigation. now they tell us around 10:00 they got a call of two adult males suffering from gunshot wounds. those men have been transported to the hospital.

here at the fairfax county detention center there are roughly 1,000 inmates. about 400 of them either have mental illness or some sort of addiction problem according to the sheriff and one of them brought the problem to the fore and now it appears things are about to change. behind these high security doors are rooms designed to calm. it's a place that should prevent this. >> if you resist, we're going to use a taser on you. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies tased natosha mckenna, a severely mentally ill woman four times. she fought back and then died of cardiac arrest. >> she was mentally ill, mental ill people shouldn't be in jail. >> reporter: retired brigadier general jerry ambrose heads up the first initiative which is on track to divert mentally ill people from jail to this brand- new specially designed building in merrifield. a police officer and deputy are to be staffed here to take custody of the individuals brought in. then mental healthcare workers and counselors will assess their conditions as they relax in these calming rooms. >> it's going to make

it shows a white fairfax county police officer tasing a black man at least once. the man falls to the ground and the officer stands over him holding his stun gun. the suspect had been walking through the parking lot. police apparently got a call someone matching his description stole a pair of sunglasses that belonged to a tell early at the nearby suntrust bank. >> the customer went into the manager's office, put his sunglasses on and left, which was weird, too and now i guess he's kind of like wandering around outside. >> reporter: police charged the suspect with larceny and assaulting an officer. to be charged with assaulting an officer i think that you would have to assault an officer and you didn't see that? >> no, nothing from beginning to end nothing. the guy simply turned around after he saw the officer pulled out the taser. the guy was -- by the time he got tased the guy was already with his hands on the hood. >> reporter: could the guy have spat at the officer? >> no. >> reporter: maybe thrown a punch you couldn't have seen? >> no. >> reporter: kicked him

in fairfax county, providence elementary school, temperatures in the 70s.h out for patchy fog in areas. and recess b, 90 degrees. heading back home, it will be in the mid-90s. dry roads this morning. any problems on the roads, melissa? >> do have different problems. north 15 north at liberty road. still have that crash. southbound at modders station road, all lanes blocked because of that motorcycle crash this morning. as far as travel times, no major problems. 270 southbound on german highway, looking good. outer loop from 95 to 70, ten minutes. 66 inbound fairfax county to the beltway, you're good. north quantico to the beltway on time. listen to wtop 105 fm when you hop in the car this morning. >>> get ready to start digging a little deeper in your pockets to pay your water bills. where neighbors will soon see their bills go up and by how much. >>> it's the tore that we're getting a look at the man >>> right now at 5:45, we are learning new details about pope francis' visit to the districts. we're also learning about what the government is doing to make

the new computer software glitch went beyond fairfax county. this mom likes having access to her kids school records. it's a feature of the s.i.s. or student information system having just launched this school year. she can check attendance, schedule and grades. when she logged on earlier this week, her high school aged son didn't exist. >> boggles my mind how he could be dropped like a hot potato. >> she says it started with an excused absence on the first day of school. her son had a scheduled college visit. >> i called him and asked him and followed protocol and got a message on the phone later in the day that he would have to come in and be react fated, which i was confused about. >> reporter: after that college vis visit, he shows back up at school to be told he wasn't in the system and his class schedule was gone. >> on the first day, he totally dropped out of the system. >> reporter: we asked fairfax county public schools. they didn't know how many people were impacted. they apologized to those affected and told us, quote, this is one of

this is wusa9 and your only local news at 7:00. >>> a relative of the man tased in fairfax county is speaking only to 9 tonight. video of the incident posted on facebook sparked a use of force investigation by police. marty jackson, a longtime resident of fairfax county says he was disturbed after seeing cell phone video of an officer using a taser on his nephew. elton chancellor was suspected of stealing sunglasses at a bank last week. fairfax county police say chancellor resisted arrest, assaulted the officer and repeatedly put his hands in his pocket where there was a fold- up knife. >> i would like his name cleared. i would love for his name to be cleared and, you know, an apology given to him. >> stiffened up to actively resist and locked his elbows out to prevent a physical arrest. and at this time the officer and mr. chancellor became engaged in a physical argument. >> kansas lor is charged -- chancellor is charged with an assault on an officer and larceny. >>> thousands of students kept out of the classroom tomorrow in prince george's county because they don't have updated va

karen garza is the superintendent of fairfax county public schools. says the buss here carry over 130,000 riders per day. like its own transit system. >> 400, you know, square miles, county's quite large. so the logistics are quite complex. >> reporter: other school systems have started using video cameras on the outside of buses to catch drivers passing the school bus stop sign. fairfax county says it's considered it but no plans to do that just yet. just please be aware next week. in mary field, adam tuss, news4. >>> some good news for some parents in arlington county. the city's newest elementary school will open on time. a few weeks ago, we showed you how linger construction delays at discovery elementary had parents concerned. they were afraid the building wouldn't be ready for the start of cycle next tuesday. the school system opened up the new school building for media tours today. teachers began moving in on monday. >>> the kids at concord elementary school in district heights have new backpacks, thanks to our backpack for kids campaign. the d

the fairfax -- mckane in. the fair -- mckenna. the naacp fairfax county chapter is demanding the investigation. police used a stun gun on mckenna while she was handcuffed. the local naacp chapter president argued mckenna's treatment may have been different if she were white. >>> president obama turns his attention to some of the world's most pressing issues today during a speech at the u.n. general assembly. among other global challenges his focus will be on the crisis in syria. yesterday the president urged world leaders to join the u.s. in helping to combat poverty and world hunger. >> it is a lack of development when people have no education, and no jobs, and no hope that helps fuel so much of the tensions and conflict and instability in our world. >> russia's president vladimir putin is also expected to bring up syria when he addresses the u.n. >>> royal dutch shell plans to stop off shore arctic drilling for the foreseeable future. the company says it's because of disappointing ruts. shell's u.s.a. president says an explorato

hard break for a family in fairfax county. 47-year-old senite mamo was waiting at a bus stop when she was struck and killed by a suspected drunk driver. corey english was going too fast on old keen mill road and mitt mamo and struck another car. mamo's husband understandably emotional as he remembered his wife. >> she lives for people. she lives for me. she lives for everybody. kellye: corey english has been harged driving while intoxicating. an alert for drivers traveling through parts of northwest washington. petco crews are working to damage underground equipment between adam mills road and the bridge over rock creek. it's been working in the area to reach a nontoxic mineral oil leak. the contract they're working for another utility damaged the equipment causing that leak. taking a live look outside right now. many families prepared for various events including parades. but how will the weather work out? our meteorologist has an early look. devon? devon: we're going to pick up humidity back up from a very dry day as you felt that today. it's not going to be too hot just yet. but ma

just ask students in fairfax and montgomery county with their new later bell schedules. does it help you in those first periods in the morning? >> yeah, it does. i feel more energized. >> reporter: the later bells are having the opposite effects on sammy. the more sleep he gets, the more sleep he wants. >> i'm just more tired because i have more sleep. so i want to sleep more. >> reporter: but do you think he wants the bell schedule to go back to the way it was? >> i like the 20 minutes. it gives me more time in the morning. >> reporter: shocker. well, it hasn't taken much adjusting for vivian wright's daughter who has the same start time as last year at pile middle school. >> i do think it helps. i think that earlier would have been a struggle. >> reporter: no struggle for susie french's son at mclean high school in fairfax county. >> he's easier to wake up in the morning. >> reporter: although she does have concern. her son is now on the road during the heart of morning rush hour. >> i have a driver. he's a senior. it makes me a little more nervous there's that many mo

we've got the showers coming up, 95 into fairfax county, western part of the fairfax towards 28 throughre in sterling. the showers hit dc. they're to the north of college park pulling in towards areas like -- headed towards columbia. there's the stuff in fairfax lifting towards the north, northeast pretty quickly, so they're short lived showered. the heaviest stuff to the west. wind chester seeing that activity. this is tracking up towards berkely springs. headed towards charleston, cable time and hagerstown. more than washington town than frederick town. we have a total lunar eclipse. a lot of clouds. it could be hard to see. happening around 8:30 to 10 :30. tomorrow, 79 with a few showers and a possible weather alert tuesday with showers and storms. highs closer to 80 degrees. after that, temperatures cool off wednesday. thursday, cool, 68. friday, a chance of shower s but cool and dry for trips. they host michigan next saturday. that's a tough match up. michael. >>> thank you, howard. still to come, hilton hacked. >>> plus survivors of the crash in seattle are talking about the momen

the fairfax connector route 599 buses will not stop at the following spots starting today. army navy drive and 15th street west of southeast street and south hayes street at the pentagon city metro. all routes will return to normal on friday. >>> starting today, make sure you double-check the signs around where you park in the district. the department of public works says it will not hesitate to tow your vehicle if it is parked where it shouldn't be. crews won't enforce street sweeping restriction on some streets, but will be near the park during the team's two games today and tomorrow. >>> metro will have a true test today of huge crowds using trains during the papal visit. we understand that some of you may not be very optimistic, especially with the mess and frustration from yesterday. news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss found out a transformer caught fire in a mechanical room alongside the metro tracks. you can see there was smoke along the stadium armory metro stop yesterday morning. >> this is very dangerous. the atmosphere down there is, you know, it is black, i

no issues as you approach the capital beltway in fairfax. all lanes are open as you get into rosslyn over the key bridge in georgetown. we'll have your drive times around the metro coming up after the seven-day forecast. we'll send it over to you. >>> republican presidential front runner donald trump releases its tax plan but would it be good for you? >> another campaign ramping up this fall. are you in or out when it comes to all ♪ ♪ all of our legendary racing heritage. all of our pioneering four wheel drive experience. come together in one amazing new vehicle. this is the all-new gle coupe. a mercedes-benz suv with the heart and soul of a race car. >>> prepare to break out those umbrellas. keep them handy for this afternoon. >> maybe double hair spray as well. it is some kind of humid outside. >> double hair spray? >>it's so muggy. >> it's like august. >> you grew up in new orleans. you know what i'm talking about here. this is not nice. it's just thick outside. a little bit of fog, a little bit of drizzle, a couple of sprinkles but the b

seven months after natosha mckenna died in police custody at the fairfax county detention center -- >> my belly hurts of. >> reporter: her family finally got to see what happened. mckenna's cousin wanted to talk but did not want to be identified on camera. >> to have seven months later go through it like she's dying all over again. >> reporter: the video released by the fairfax county sheriff's office shows five people in biohazard suits approaching mckenna's cell. she comes out naked. a struggle begins between mckenna and the officers. >> if you continue to sist, we're going to use the taser on you. do you understand what that means? >> reporter: mckenna was then put in a restraint clair. still struggling officers hit her with a stun gun four times. >> if you have a person shackled in handcuffs and you still tased them? for what purpose? they're already being restrained. >> reporter: commonwealth attorney ray morrogh defended the officers' actions saying mckenna displayed superhuman strength. he said her physical exertion and mental condition led to her death, not the stun guns. >> t

fairfax, va to arlington and rosslyn. otherwise the heaviest of the rain has been clear of the bay as a continues to track towards the east. let's talk about this weekend forecast. saturday, lower 80's. scattered showers and thunderstorms. by sunday temperatures only in the low to middle 70's. still a good deal of sunshine. we have the redskins game on sunday afternoon. it starts at 1:00. we will see temperatures eventually make it into the 70's and may be a chance for passing shower or two but it should not amount to a whole lot. a look at the next seven days. calling for daytime highs for next week slightly below average . 76 on monday. 82 degrees on tuesday. middle 80's come wednesday and thursday. let's get an update on the seedings rush-hour commute straight over to jamie. jamie: google start with bumper to bumper traffic. heavy traffic on the inner and outer loops. , basicallyr loop from 66 virginia across the american legion bridge. it will take you just under 35 minutes. no crashes to report that the average speed

, the city f fairfax. the north virginia transportation authority paid for it. >>> we are following a developing story out of selma, alabama, this morning. three people are recovering after a church shooting. a man is charged after killing his girlfriend, a baby, and the pastor inside the church. this was a domestic incident. he was arrested less than a mile away from the scene this morning. he's being held without bond. >>> two americans held in yemen for months have arooived home. the u.n. ambassador was there to greet them after their release. darmon was working for his company and the other was taken back in march. >>> 34-year-old david brewer died during the ride to conquer cancer. police say the suv hit him when he crossed the yellow line. president obama issued a statement saying brewer was armed with a blliant mind and a big heart. brewer's wife is a prominent conservative journalist and blogger. she's pregnant with their second child. nbc 4 was a partner in the ride to conquer cancer. >>> this mor

fairfax county police arrested this man, 44-year-old michael sweeney from woodbridge. he has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. he was arrested yesterday after the police say they found him in april parked car with an alongged alexandria girl richmond highway. the website for walt whitman high school in alexandria lists a staffer, michael sweeney, as a technology teacher. we contacted fairfax county schools by e-mail and phone, but do not receive a response. in went to sweeney's home woodbridge, but it was dark and nobody answered the door. alison: a kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples dave her first interview to abc news today. >> would probably hurts me the is when someone tells me.hat my god does not love spent six days in jail for contempt, released after promising not to interfere with the issuing of licenses. she could face the possibility of more jail time after a deputy clerk said she removed her name and that of the county from marriage forms. see the full interview tomorrow on "go

in fairfax county, julie carey, news 4. >>> some d.c. firefighters are resorting to begging ticket writers to spare their cars. the union says several fire stations in the district have no parking spaces for firefighters and they're working 24-hour shifts. >> i've gotten several tickets parking here. the last one was $200. we've actually sat out here and waited for them to come like please don't ticket us. >> a d.c. council member introduced legislation that would create limited special permits and give them to stations with the least amount of available parking. council's going to hold a hearing on that measure soon. >>> it may soon cost you a wee bit more to use uber and lyft in prince george's county. the county is considering a 25-cent surcharge on that car service. that money would be used to improve the county's bus system and it would increase the number of taxis equipped for people with disabilities. the council's transportation committee already approved this proposal. the full council votes on it next month. d.c. and montgomery

. >>> fairfax county is getting ready to head back to school.e will tell you why these new start times could impact you even if you do not have a child returning to class. >>> a young child falls five stories from this apartment building and lives. what the rescuers are crediting with saving her life. >>> and storm team4 monitors our weather, remember, you can check out the radar any time on our nbc washington app. we are coming right back. what did iran's supreme leader get in the nuclear deal? to start with, $100 billion. they keep their nuclear facilities and ballistic missiles. there won't be surprise anytime-anywhere inspections. and after ten years, restrictions are lifted and iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. congress should reject a bad deal. we need a better deal. know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. know you can easily keep track of what you're putting away. and know you're budgeted for the great escape. thanks to vi

heaviest rain now rockville to fairfax out toward manassas down toward dale city. around the beltway light to moderate rain from fedex to college park to silver spring, heaviest rain south and west and down towards burke. in fact, this little area around burke is producing rainfall about 1.16 inches, so over 1 inch per hour. again, we're kind of concerned about flash flooding from now until midnight. heavy to severe storms until midnight. main threat will be flash flooding. bus stop temperatures temperatures mid-60s to mid- 70s, pretty darn warm tomorrow. yellow weather alert thursday and friday, flooding. we go over there and over there, but remember never cross a flooded street by car or foot. if your windshield wipers are on, lights should be on, too. by 10:00 the rain is into fairfax pulling out of loudoun county and across the river into montgomery county by 11:30. we're talking heavy rainfall with temperatures still in the low 70s, so a very warm sultry night with tropical rains until about midnight. day planner, 74 at 9:00, up to 77 by 1:00. another warm day

. >>> fairfax county police are defending the officer seen in this video. he tased a man who appeared to have his hands on the squad car. our bureau chief julie carey spoke to the suspect's relatives about this takedown and she joins us live from woodbridge with both sides of this story. jules? >> reporter: well, the result of the police administrator review into the use of this taser only came out about an hour ago. so since my 5:00 live report i had a chance to work thoroughly and i had a chance to go down the street there and talked to the brother of the man who was tased in that video about his take in the latest information. the incident happened last week at the rose hill shopping center in fairfax county. we are here in woodbridge and that's because the subject of the whole controversy came here to stay with his family after he bonded out of jail. he told me he has cerebral palacy and he was extremely shaken by the incident. the family tells me they are very upset to learn that police have ruled the use of this taser was justified and they say they'v

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set to beew is sentenced friday for the violent rape of a fairfax county woman in 2005. matthew is also awaiting trial in the murder of two other women -- virginia tech student morgan harrington, found in 2010, and uva student hannah graham, was found murdered in 2014. prosecutors say that there is a dna link to matthew in all the cases. the doctor said that the childhood sex abuse claims may not be enough to sway the judge when it comes to sentencing. >> the violence perpetrated was much too severe to have a mitigating effect, i would say, on the punishment. before friday, matthew has a court date tomorrow afternoon -- to hear motions in two cases. roz plater, abc 7 news. alison: a federal grand jury has indicted another aide to former d.c. mayor vincent gray. rubin charles ii is charged with two counts of failing to file tax returns. he faces up to a year in prison on each count. prosecutors say it is part of an ongoing investigation into gray's 2010 campaign. from nearly 24 hours away a possible government shutdown, retiring house speaker john boehner has fast tracked

middle school, it's empty now, but going to be next week 188,000 students go back in fairfax county next week. they're going to be starting 50 minutes late. so school buses will be on the roads testing out the new times. and otherwise, hazy and sunshine, and warming fast by midmorning, it will be around 80 degrees and quite humid as we get into the afternoon. let's check on the roads. >> yecks, right now, we do have problems, red line to shady grove, delays. as far as roads go, 15 southbound at motters station road, all lanes blocked. traffic being pushed on to st. anthony road. travel times, no problems, 270 south, and germantown, looking good. and in town and out of town looking quite good. remember to listen to our friends at wtop 105 p.m. in the car. >>> and an american hero telling jimmy fallon on the "tonight show." >>> in your workout, turns out it's not all in >>> 6:15 now, developing this morning, the son of a baltimore police commander is in jail, accused of murdering his roommate. police tell the baltimore sun that melvin russell got into a fight with his roommate on mond

a few sprinkles in fairfax county.doun and northern fauquier and down 95 prince william near fredericksbu fredericksburg, a few sprinkles. by mid-morning most of it will be done. a look at our afternoon forecast and then a wet pattern moving in for the week ahead. >> thank you, tom. more than a million people are expected to celebrate mass with pope francis for the final day of his u.s. visit. it has been an exhausting five days. and it's come to a close. >> jay gray is following the pope's visit in philadelphia as they get ready for the big event today. >> reporter: the celebration saturday night in downtown philadelphia. aretha franklin. andrea buechele and mark wahlberg. >> good evening and welcome to the festival of families. >> reporter: but as the world meeting of families comes to a close, there's no question about the star of this show. pope francis ignited the crowds that lined the streets in places ten deep, some who had been there since the night before. >> translator: thaul all that i beautiful leads us to

the fairfax county sheriff says she's pushing for a jail diversion program for people suffering from mental illness so they can get help instead of incarceration. >>> new tonight a man accused of sexually assaulting a girl before her birthday party, police say 40-year-old luis cruz aguilar was helping the victim's family set up for her birthday party in laurel. he's accused of luring that little girl into another room where he assaulted her and then left. he was tracked down and arrested this morning at a job site in baltimore county and as it turns out, cruz aguilar had an outstanding warrant for a sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl five years ago. >>> a sterling, virginia, man is accused of sexually abusing a child at a daycare that was operating inside his home and tonight police are worried there could be more victims. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn in sterling. i'm told that the suspect's sister-in-law runs the daycare inside the townhouse and it's still operating. child protective services has not shut it down, but they're still investigating. no one at the home daycare at 3 ca

. >>> fairfax county chief of police is standing by the officer who tased a man in the roseville mall in franconia last thursday. the man was reaching into his pocket where he had a 6-inch folding knife. the investigation showed the officer's actions were lawful and appropriate. he was pledged to have stolen sunglasses from a suntrust bank. the witness told our peggy fox he saw no reason for cansler to be tased for assaulting an officer. no, nothing, from beginning to the end nothing. >> i back up my officer. the officer is sworn by an oath to tell the truth. >> police have not named the arresting officer. >>> a prince george's county woman says a bladensburg police officer severely beat her and wrongly charged her with a crime. >> so this woman went public today and told our hank silverberg that she's in the first steps of taking lilac. >> reporter: it started at a local restaurant sunday night when a group of women got into a fight when a 29-year-old mother of three was roughed up by the police and it was caught on video. uribe was with her sister july 12th the night of the fight. f

thanks, julie. >>> fairfax county mother just pleaded guilty to child abuse for the second time.report on the case against the mother of three. she was accused of beating her 8-year-old son with a plastic hanger and her fists. in 2010, she served time for pricking her son, who was just 3 at the time, with a needle. she will be sentenced in december in the latest case. >>> new york state lawmakers are praisings list and calling on other sites to remove ads for synthetic drugs like k 2. a state senator there says he and other officials e-mailed craigslist, ebay and back page to alert them about posts involving synthetic drugs. their letter suggested that the sites were being used to help sell and distribute the drugs. the center says craigslist immediately responded, removing all posts that mention k 2 and other related key phrases. >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk with breaking news in the presidential race. nbc news has just confirmed that former texas governor rick perry is dropping out of the race. now, perry did not make the cut for next week's primetime debate because