the northbound lanesf indian head highway are closed after a serious crash. police tel us an suv hit a guardrail and two children were thtwn out of t car. the children and the driver were taken to thespital. no word on how they're doing. >> nicole jacobs is heading to washington. what does it mean driving to d.c.? she is going to join us for an upda in a few minutes. ♪ > a warm welcome for some o our country's newest residents. several syrian refugees have come in. >>> the organizers say they hope to keep up the tradition for the months to come. >> donald trump and melania trump watched the capital fourth fireworks show. now that the holiday is over, it's back to work for the president. >> what doe know about who is on the short li? >> amy coney barrett, brett ka nau kavanaugh, and mike lee and thomas cahehardman is teven names that the two of themre listening to. two are-r the froners, kavanaugh and barrett. he is aurrent appeals court judge. barrett, the president likes very much. a female justice to be put on the court. >> she drew somehe attention she was

northbound indian head highway closed at ft. washington road. right now, they are pushing you off on to ft. washington because of the crash, southbound lanes are open here this year. the purple the showing you the closure poi and the red is where the happenbag goes. >>> in stafford, northbound right lean blocked by a vehicleh another probl stopped up, northbound right there. right side blocked at a crash. several weeks invold at a fender bender. >>> it is warm out from. getting you a.c. this morning. >> it's warm and humid. another day in the 90s. we'retuck in this heat wave. today, the heat and humidity will continue. we have some late dayto thundes and have the release to get those. look at the weekend, sunday, lookingfantastic. we'll talk about the weekend forecast coming up. 81 in washington. 82 in anap sis. it's humid outside, too man if you're going grilling, temperatures will be in t90s by 3:00 p.m. if we hit the 90s, which we expect, seven days in a row of 90-degree 90-degreele temperatures. we'll look at the forecast coming up. >>> it w

looking at indian head highway. re's the latest problem. rthbou indian head highway overturned vehicle. we had a right lane getting by and theyyitopped that. to get some lanes to get it out of the way. in the district, westbound southeast freeway before the birdty acti make sure it's blocked there. a bunch of blue lines december. let's look at trave tes in virginia. looking good. a little slow there, just 39 itles per hour. ill take a half-hour through that section. 270 nice and clear there. and top of the beltway, outer loop, ng95-270, go take you 17 minutes. >>>ood morning, sheena. >> if only 270 can look like that all the time. this morning, we're talking about heat wave. this would be the seventh day of e temperatures in the 90s. tomorrow will the have close to 70. and that will provide us with a lot of relief this week. and it's part of cold front. i think you're going to like the cond outside. feels like 85 with themidity. a lot of the clouds starting to look out. heother warm, humid start to day. here's a look at satellite and rad rad

washington, has indian head highway with the left lane paving by northbound and southbound. that project haseen hanging around. quantico, southbound i-90, and beltway, inner loop and outer loop, no problems there. >>> that is daredil and annapolis native, travi pa stranny, ma pastra pastrana. he closed over 15 buses, with a tribute to evehoknievel w made the jump 50 years ago. he cleared the cars at 122 feet, which is longer than knievel's jump. >> y just fountain in. pastrana is an 11-time game gold medalist. i would like to know how many injuries he suffered from practicing and getting to the point he can doing in like that. >> justin bieber is back in the news this morning but for a good reason. he proposed to his girlfriend, hal haley baldwin over the bahamas. th have not confirmed the news. but several outlets are reporting that it's true wald w p baldwin wtured with a huge enbeigement ring. >> for a second, i thought he and selena gomez were going to get back together. >> what do you mean? >> i know. i'm out of the loop. >> we're going to get a mess with a bear's cravi

indian head highway. paving in each direction maryland, we're looking good from 32 to the beltway. on time.es 71 m per hour. going quickly. it takes about ten minutes. >>> here'se at live desk. breaking news out of california. one of l.a.'s iconic closed because of a brushfire. this started yesterday in griffith pa. it prompted an evacuation at the griffith a observatory nearby trails as a precaution. take a look at the picture. at onehe point hollywood sign, the big white letters there, ad ba to the fire and smoke. get it unde to control. the observatory is not immediately threatened by the fire. but we checked the webte this morning. it will remain closed for the day. aaron. >>> ang, i thank you.ul today is 11th. that means 7-eleven is celebrating its day by giving away free slurpees. no coupon necessary. be prepared to waitor a while. the chain estimates it will giveaway about 9 million slurpee he is each year. >> take my kids. >> it's going to be hot enough for it. t >> theynk it's a treat. they never get slurpees. never seen aunburn remedy viral on facebook. menthol fm heali a

indian highway, little delay there, headed inbound. no major impact right noin r loop and outer loop of the beltway, looking good. earlier crash up t here near connecticut avenue. that's cleared. we see a tiny bit of a delay. >>> imagine havinyou're having e sitdown dinner and it's interrupted by a falling ceiling. >> that is what happened to folks dining at the ser restaurant last evening. parts of the ceiling started falling. that's a lot of water.er eventually, evybody evacuated rae restaurant. patrons and rest workers were stunned. >> it was rainininside. that's the only real way to describe it. once it started going, it was king ceiling tiles with it. it took marble out of the seafood bar. it was enough volume that quickly enough in a it did a lot of damage. >> the restaurant will not ble ab to reopen for a few weeks. >> it was a wild night for weather all around the area. lo at this video. d.c. fire eeted this video of a mail truck off of the road there. the driver was nowhere to be found, the driver was later found okay. two oth

a serious crash on indian head f highway in prince georges county. two children were thrownn from suv there. prince georges county police say those two children and the adult who was driving are in the hospital now.> hat crash happened about 1:45 this morning but somar lans still closed. >> melissa mollet is here with the forecast. >> looking in ft. washington, northbound. this is going to be shut down for some time. it shutow just before ft. washington road. that's where they're pushing you off rht now. you have to turn north and go sght. thethbound lanes aren't ndopen. northbs the issue. before stafrd, a right lane blocked. >>> sheena, how are we looking outside? already 81?>> it's warm and humid. it's been like this r many daysnow. into the weekend, we have some relief coming. it's not today or tomorrow. 81 in washington. 82 in annapolis. this is similar to what we had yesterday.

for washington, indian head highway. the rest of prince georges county, no complaints. looking at the loopsno 95 south, the problem has cleared out of the way, as well. >>> 5:02. we turn to the breaking news out thailand. >> rescuers are working to extract an entire soccer team and their coach from a cave. what's going on? >> we got word i the past hour that the rescue operation has resumed. and if everything goes as planned, the first boy should emerge, about four hours from now. eight boys and their coach are still trapped.he it's same one that got the four boys out of the cave yesterday. thai officials say they are g hungry and id health. but they can't have contact with their parents until bloodti tes come back. they had tavigate the swirling water to getout. that route and a lack of oxygen killed a former thai navy s.e.a.l. in t rescue operation. they will bring the strongest boys up first. extracting all of them can take k >>> a massive fire has forced families from their homes. >> we go to 11th street near sherman avenue. nicole, tell us what's going on there. >>

. >>> northbound indian head highway, new crash before the beltway. the right side is blocked. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway looking better this morning. we had an earlier problem befor connecticut. that has now cleared out of the way. in mclean, we pike shut down there near towlston road. i was telling you to take old dominion instead. that's out of the way. bee and wires out of the way. northwest broadnch road near 7th streets. all lanes blocked with a tree and wires down there. >>> 5:32 now. re on the road conditions right now. at the scene on west willard road. the driver of that suv drove s to the water. we saw several c this turnaround. thankfully no one decided to go all the way through. >>> we're monitoring crews trying to clear downed wires and trees in alexusdria. >>n with the latest. what's going on? >> that's right, we're here on russell road near east windsor avenue, in the alexandria area, o be a problem spot for drivers getting out early. power crews are icworking, p on-scene, as well. this has been the scene for hours her off of russell road. not only

taking aook right now at accokeek, indian head highway near old fort road, we have had this clear out othe way in the last couple minutes. had paving that's been going on for some time but gone asf now. rest of prince orge's county oking good. looking up top here in maryland, 29, 95, route 1, bw parkway, all rollinglong pretty wel northbound and southbound. looking at 95 near the icc, looks good. nicend lightn this friday morning at 5:00 a.m. of course,e going to cha a little bit as the morning commute kicks in. inner and outer loops of the beltway, no big complaints there. aaron? >> all right, melissa, thank you. 5:01 now. >>> time is limited. that's the message form auies in thailand working to rescue that soccer team from a cave. >> bringingafhem toy is proving to be a dangerous mission. a former thai navy s.e.a.l. who was part of the rescue team died from a lack of oxygen. the commander if chargee operation says it was first believed that the kids could be kept alive inside the cave for a long time, but now he doesn't believe that anymore. he did not elaborate when asked why. the

indian head highway, overturned vehicle. right now we have a lane getting by.ted there. in fairfax eastbound 56, crash th the right lane getting by. >> thank you. >>> a check on your forecast i coming next. stay with us. at havertys we know it's hard to get a good night's sleep... havertys mattress sale is here to help. with our wide selection of top brands and our price match guantee you can find the perfect mattress for everyone in the family.d ght now save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic sets. it's time everyone got a good nig's sleep. havertys. life looks good efrom the first momt you met, it was love at first touch. and all you wanted to do was surround them in comfort and protection. that's why only pampers swaddlers is the number one choice of hospitals to wrap your baby in blanket-like softness and premium protection. so that all they feel is love. pampers the number one choice of hospitals, nurses and parents (birds chirping, a running ahh.k,) the new deer park sparkling is made with real spring water. ♪ it's so refreshing and delicious, you don't ne

oxon hill, through lanes before indian head highway had a crash that's now out of the way.treville, real delays beforec fairfaxnty parkway, but thankfully that's cleared. d oming into southbo kenilworth before eastern avenue, crash there blocking one left lane. >> thank you, melissa. we'll check your forecast next. >> stay with us. >>> good morning. it is a very pleasant day to be outside. temperatures are in the 60s to around 70 degrees here first thing o your friday. highs today will reach the upper 80s for most areas. 90-degree weather returns for tomorrow. highs on saturdayround 92 degrees. sunday looks even hotter than that with temperatures in the there could be an isolated rain chance late in the day on sunday, but the real story abo sunday, hot and humid. back to you. >> allu,ight. thank chuck. we've got another update coming up in 25 minutes. >> for now, back to the "today" show after this short break. have a great day. does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others do

heading into san francisco. we have some closures here in the north bay, walker ridge road shut down between highway 20 and indian valley reservoir road. also highway 16 is closed between highway 20 and rummish hall. that's a check of your traffic. back to you. >>> time now 4:50. every year millions of tons of plastic end up in the ocean. is tr to reduche time.preneur have died after record rainfall in >>> we are starting to see a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza and we are going to look at that coming up. >> in japan at least 100 people have died after record rainfall in the southwest part of the country. it started last thursday and continued into the weekend, flooding river banks and landslides, crushing homes. officials say 2 million people were told to evacuate. the waters have subsided and search and rescue operations are still underway. >>> a hiker gets a helping hand. he was hiking around pacifica around noon yesterday and slipped, hurting his ankle. the man was hiking in the area without using the trails. >> we encourage people to do a little home work before you come out. it's a beautiful spot but it