we look forward to seeing you today in kingstown. back to you guys. >> erika gonzalez live in fairfax county. >>> a travel warning from the naacp. african-americans put on notice. the state being called out as racial tensions grow. >>> plus a school collapse. you may have heard about that deadly building explosion in minneapolis. the new developments we just learned overnight. >>> mild start to the morning. 73 degrees right now in the district. if you see the live picture outside, it is a very nice start to our thursday. i'll show you who made be seeing >>> i'm molette green at the live a photo of the d.c. firefighter hit on the job just hours ago. there you see a picture of 28-year-old dane smothers jr. he is the young man we've been telling you about who suffered critical injuries when a ladder truck hit him at the f street northeast fire scene this morning. d.c. fire asking for prayers for smothers, whose family has deep ties in the firefighting community. we have team coverage. we have a crew at the hospital and, of course, a cre

news4's erika there in kingstown. erika, how's it going? >> hey, erika. >> reporter: guys, we are doing great. we have a few more minutes. if you come out here -- i know, they're cool. i know. if you come out here, i will hook you up with a pair of these glasses. we're doing so great. we have had so many people come through here and drop off new backpacks, empty backpacks, backpacks filled with school supplies like this one, that's already bursting at the seams. pencils, paper, this is all an effort for us to give back to our community, to help the kids that need it most get off to a wonderful start this school year, because we know it's hard. you got to, you know, parents have to spend on school supplies, they got to spend on clothing. it can be a lot. and sometimes when they get into classes, it's the teachers that have to put in a little extra. we know what you do for our kids. so thank you for that. speaking of the classroom, fairfax county public schools is with us this morning, chairman you got a very cool backpack, ma'am. >> i love t

starting at 6:00 a.m., you can come out to the apple federal credit union in kingstown. we will be accepting donations of new backpacks,ch we're going to be there until noon. if you can't make it to fairfax county, you can make a donation through our nbc washington app. coming up later on this morning, erika gonzalez will be live at the drop-off to show you how quick and easy it is to do. >>> before you know it, we're going to be talking about the bus stop forecast, sheena. right now, hold on. let's talk about the forecast. we're going to the pool and the beach. that kind of stuff. >> i like that forecast a lot better, molette. the bus stop forecast, it's a little bit bittersweet. summer is coming to an end. 75 degrees in washington. 68 front royal. it's warm this morning. i'll show you how hot it will get today and changes coming up. stay tuned. >>> they may sound like the answer to your money problems. those programs. sometimes they can do more harm than good. consumer reporter susan hogan joins us with a look at that. ♪ ♪ >> you know him. the kid creole. police say he

starting at 6:00 a.m., you can go to the credit union in kingstown. we'll be accepting donations of new backpacks, school supplies and money. we'll be there until noon today. if you can't make it out to fairfax county, you can make a donation through the nbc washington app. >> erika gonzalez will be live at the drop-off to show you just how quick and easy it is to do. school already. these are really important tools that kids need to get their school year started out right. >> can use all the help they can get. >> 4:35. another check on your weather and traffic. >> let's check the roads and rails in a minute with jack taylor at wtop. first we'll go to the forecast and sheena parveen in the weather center. good morning. >> good morning, guys. yes. it's another nice morning, another mild one. yeah, i cannot believe school is about to start soon. pretty soon we'll show you the bus stop forecast. for now, we'll show you the nice beach forecast for the weekend. i'll have that coming up in a minute. we hope you enjoy the rest of your summer before school st

erica will be back at the credit union kingstown branch in alexandria tomorrow. you can donate cash and checks. everything collected will be donated to local kids and schools. always so wonderful in addition to getting donations to meet everybody. >>> working for amazon could be the chance for you to land your dream job. how it could become reality. >>> plus, murder mystery, rumors, intrigue. now the white house morning, too. you're about to step outside, the rest of the area looking at comfortable temperatures. 68 in centerville, 75 in washington. prince george's county around 70 degrees for the most part. grilling this afternoon, keep an eye out for an isolated storm. show you the timing and the weekend changes coming up. let's check the roads with jack. good morning. >> good morning. trouble spot was wood bridge on 123, both directions. all travel lanes opened once again. a lot of activity heading into the quarry, but through lanes are open. enormous traffic on i-95 between 123 and lorton, at least everything is open now. >>> 6:41. if you need a new job, amazo

erika gonzalez accepting school supplies and donations at the apple federal credit union at the kingstown branch. you can still donate. head to the nbc washington app and search backpacks for kids. thanks to everybody who came by continuing to make donations. we can't do this campaign without your support. >> nice turnout. always use the support. let's turn to lauryn ricketts. we've made it to friday, looking forward to the weekend. >> rolling with that humidity on the -- drop it a little bit like that. >> you all got plans for the weekend? >> yeah. >> okay, good. >> yeah, we do have plans, get to the weather. >> birthday weekend, i'm going to see my mother. >> happy birthday. a beautiful weekend to enjoy some time outside. because we're not going to have that humidity. we have it out there today. but it will drop during the overnight. we do have some storms. i do believe they could be impacting our area over the last couple of days. it is going to be a gorgeous weekend. then as you head into next week, it's a little unsettled. the frontal system is going to be hanging out over the area.

this is from old kingston village from the kingstown road.s you can see from the side, this is plastic typing. this is much more recent. check out the remaining aperture and not pipe. these pieces of pipe are kind of touchable evidence of the problems that we have in the scope of the possible infrastructure solution that we could have. i wanted to flag a particular situation. i also wanted to find another situation that is more a problem in our coastal states than in other states and that is -- let me show you what this is. this is a map of rhode island. this is the northern part of rhode island. our capital city providences right here. this is bristol and warren. what we have here is the latest information from our coastal resources management council about the coast. and here is the existing day. light blue is actually land now. right now that his land. but what we are looking not in the light lou is all these areas are acted to be flooded and underwater by 2100 if we don't get ahead of what is happening with sealevel rise. the state of ira

this piece of pipe comes from kingstown road. as can you see from the side, this is plastic piping.his is much more recent. but check it out. look at the size of the remaining aperture in that pipe. so these pieces of pipe are kind of touchable evidence of the problems that we have and the scope of the possible infrastructure solution we could have. i wanted to flag that particular situation. i also wanted to flag another situation that is more a problem in our coastal states than in other states, and that is that -- let me show you what this is. this is a map of rhode island. it's been -- this the northern part of rhode island, upper narragansett bay, our capital city providence is right here. this is warwick neck. this is bristol and warren. what we have here is the latest information from our coastal resources management council about sea level rise happening along our coasts. and here is the existing bay. light blue is actually land now. right now that's land. but what we're looking at in the light blue is all these areas are expected to be flooded and under water by 2100 if we