in northwest, kristen wright, news4. >>> these clients of yours, these rappers, look like gang members. >> you can't come down here and arrest people just because of what they look like. are you crazy? that's police harassment. >> that is a clip from "straight out of compton" distributed by nbc's sister company, universal. is it the music or message resonating with your listeners? >> a little bit of both, folks in my age range tells me it takes them back to the music of their youth. the defiant group that talked about problems really happening to young people at the time and now parents are able to connect with young people, their kids, on a similar kind of -- in the same kind of frame as there are still problems going on in our country today >> because a lot of these kids weren't even born when nwa came out, yet, they are connecting with this film. >> one person told me that her kids first new ice cube from the movie "are we there yet"? dough boy in boyz in the hood, totally different story. he has matured, music has matured, again, speaks to the black lives matter movement and all th

she told kristen wright that she is sad and afraid. >> i want them to be caught. gun violence is ridiculous and it can be anybody else's child. they might get shot and not leave. i'm just happy to leave. >> this is a child, 13, young, to have been shot in dc's escalating gun violence. >> my mom was saying the night before that her biggest fear is one of her kids getting out in this neighborhood and being shot. >> she was sitting on a neighbor's porch sunday doing another little girl's hair when she heard a sound she knows too well. >> a car came and started to shoot. i was like trying to cover up the little girl because she was too young to get shot. >> the seventh grader was shot in both legs. one of the bullets is still there. it is a neighborhood used to crime. you can bet kevin smith will be at a citizen's crime meeting tonight. it comes as the police department announces an all hands on deck crime. the police union votes no confidence. >> on and on and on. on deck. on deck for what? they not on deck around here. >> she is now afraid to be here. >> for you to

news 4's kristen wright live on the road in have i naen making sure you're ready for this. walk us through what's ahead. >> reporter: hey, the morning rush has already started of course on 66 this morning. at that i can a look. this is of course the eastbound side headed into washington. traffic picking up by the minute this morning. if you drive 66 you know it gets very congested so changes coming our way today on 66 that may make things better between d.c. and gainesville. one improvement, the red x lanes. the shoulder lanes will be open more often. real time cameras will allow vot vdot to open up the shoulder lanes. you'll see new overhead signs telling you way ahead of time when to merge. to recap, new lane control signals are going in along 66. expanded use of shoulder lanes. those are the red x lanes. cameras throughout the corridor to help vdot they tell us better manage traffic and let you know when you need to merge or when you need to go a different way. also increased sign messaging. so all of that happening along 66 between d.c. and gainesville starting at noon

kristen wright are talking to people there on jade court.xpect an update from kristin in the next 15 minutes. >> most of you are waking up in the 70s as you can see from the current temperatures. we may hit the 90s. >> good morning. temperatures dry and 75 this morning. near 90 this afternoon. there will be a chance for showers arriving late in the day today, but if you can't find your umbrella, rain not likely in the metro until after 6:00. time for traffic. >> breaking news. connecticut avenue at knowles, again, we're shut down this morning. delays are going to start to build, no doubt in the next half hour. it's very slow through the area, take georgia avenue instead. aaron. >>> a family now preparing a funeral for a woman shot and killed in virginia beach. india cager died after being shot and killed. she was in a car with terry. cager's mother told the associated press her daughter's death was unjustified. she also said a baby in the car who survived the shooting was her 4-month-old son. >>> the criminals are the common link in many of

. >>> i'm kristen wright at the live desk where we are watching the situation in chile after a big very earthquake. the quake hit the central coast so now the area is flooding. it is a huge mess. not only that, eight people were killed. the earthquake was a magnitude 8.3. that is massive. these are still pictures of some of the recovery efforts happening now. right here, video from a supermarket right as the quake struck. complete chaos inside. 100,000 people are without power right now and the damage is really bad. the quake wiped out homes and it was the strongest anywhere in the world so far this year. california and hawaii are both under tsunami advisories. big waves are hitting the coast of southern california and people in hawaii are being told to use extreme caution out on the water. back to you. >>> i'm megan mcgrath live outside the district's 911 call center where a graduation ceremony is about to get under way in just a few minutes. now, there have been concerns about the 911 center, specifically with respect to staffing levels in light of a jump in calls for service this sum