thank you, lauryn.ter notebook is coming up next. >> we're back in 15 minutes with more of themo ing's top stories. >> good morning, i'm pat lawson muse. all this week news 4 focused on our changing climate a the impact on our daily lives, on every aspectou of r lives, food to families, our money, the economy and health. this morning we're talking about the impact with news 4 meteorologist amelia draper and chuck bell. guys, let's start with the arctic, warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. explain wnire that's hap and what it means. >> they have more opportunity for w ming essentially. the equator is equal warm year round, but the polar regions have a much greater cycle, so anytime you trap more heat into ,the atmospherehat's where you're able to see the change the most. so alaska just finished up the month of march. no just the record warmest rch, they shattered it. th most above average month ever recorded. so it was 25 something degrees above average for the entire monthf rch. degrees abov

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it w a busy one for storm team 4 especially lauryn ricketts. i hesitate to say hello i know you haven't slept .much you and smomara tracking those storms. this, in fact, was a twister that touched down in caused a lot of ta damage in reston. >> absolutely. a plethora of tornado warnings out there. this one actually spawned a tornado and even amelia who said on-air, that is a tornado right there. we could see the hook the velocities and we knew. shortly thereafter, about 11:00 p.m. last night ishen the national weather service, hey, yeah, absolutely a tornado. back this up a little. bear with me a second. back this up a little bit because i want to show you where that tornadotxactly was p right there in the reston area. we were watching this late last night coming right tthrough. ng is, radar is very close to. reston in sterling, virginia. as that rolled through, about 00, thatid spawn a tornado, a spall one. they're going out to do the deeo today. and a weather alert, flood warnings out there. my m:c's falling a little bit. look at this rotatio

lauryn, it feels a little like summer this morning. that is not a bad thing. >> not a bad thing whatsoe long as we don't have the summertime thunderstorms, which we don't. we're lookingoo we're looking beautiful outside. plenty of sunshine. low humidity. a loo ligh-- a light wind. look at how green everything. it is a beautiful day for a tuesday. 73 degrees already. by the next hour we're going in the mid to upper 70s a then topping out in the low 80s today. it is a perfect day out there. maybe a little warm for some bad. but all in all not so any after-school activities for those kids that have school, it is perfect and warm for them to get outside and even some outdoor practices. outdoor eating, lunch and dinner, do it. make sureth you have sunscreen in the sun, that is pretty strong this time of the year. and evening commute going to have some sunshine delays. we could have a few road delays as get into friday because we do have rain on the way to the area so we'll talk about that and of course the weekend forecast coming up in a li

lauryn joins us on this weather alert day. get us caut up onhat to expect. >> expect severe weather into the afternoon. this is entirely headed to our neighborod, righthrough the mid-atlantic. if you are traveling, i am concerne for you if you are headed south out of the d.c. area and into the carolinas. for our area, the main thing is going to be flooding. we are going to have flash flooding and possibly flooding out there. ry aging winds come secon but again, we have our entire area andn a flash flood watch. national weather service extended this through southern maryland. you were not in this with the morning show but they have expanded that throughout our entire region. pockets of heavy rain, one to three inchesotal. and i do believe there could be isolated spots that get more than 3 inches. already seeing isolated showers south of i-66 went lou ray and warrenton. but look at what is coming. ongoing tornado warning south of roanoke but this line will continue to lift to the north an east and we'll time it out for you into

. >> lauryn ricketts is here this mornhag. what do yo for us lauryn? >> i do have cloudy conditions when we look outside of our windows here in northwest d.c. we're looking at clouds out there but we're also looking at very temperatures. look at that cloud cover. now if you go west, you'r able find a little bit more sunshine. so i know my friends out in the doah valley have more sunshine than we do, around the i-95 corrir. temperatures out there right now at 71 degrees. they'll pop up pretty quickly as we go through the lunch hour. topping out rig around 80 degrees today. ould have a passing shower out there. the winds are going to be picking up. and the reason is because we've got the frontal system right here. i just checked the wind direction and thiis where tha front is. and you could see the clouds out in front of it. so even if you areetting some sunshine, clouds are going to come back into play and not until later on this afternoon, late this afternoon through this evening. what we see is clearing. but as this front moseys on through, we could p

lauryn ricketts joining me at the desk. storm team 4 weather alert day. going to be windy?in >> defely windy. windy when we came in this morning. >> yeah. >> with that system exiting t area another system coming in bringing rain showers overnight. breezy, brisk, blustery conditions with us throughout the weekend. weather alert, dav was saying, because of that fact. so weather alert, main story today, the winds. inly dry until late tonight. then we have a few light rain showers. but, again, gusts up to 50 miles an hour and how saturated the ground is, definitely t power outages. dry tomorrow. going to keep a rain chancen in the first part of the day amorrow and still breezy throughout the day well. those winds are kicking up now. seeing gusts up to about 33 miles an hour. hagerstown 17. gaithersburg and it's on the windy side. wind advisory in place for most of the are until 3:00 p.m. gusts up to 50 miles an hour and branches down out there. current temperatures out there now, it's not too bad. you factor in the wind, of course, feels a little on the brisk

lauryn rick rights. >> money. you're so money and you don't know i >> i do know that. >> never mind. >> that is going to -- i hear it in myead. >> all right. >> i have no clue. >> lauryn is here. 11:25 and 66 degrees outside. >> it is not bad. it is gre out thereoday. and we'll have a mix of sun -- now i'll think about the weather egment and i'll figure that out. listen -- weather. we could say the same thing to mother nature because she's given up great weather over the last two days. now we do have some rain that might be a good thing. because we have pollen in the air. tree pollen high and clouds across the area. unfortunately a breeze out there so that will continue to bring the pollen around the area and again tree pollen running high. temperatures in the 60s. we'll continue to warm up into the 70s for daytime highs today. cleagng is takin place from the north and west and eventually the cuds will decrease as we go to the south and east as dry air filters in. and that is when we'll start to see the tempetures

lauryn joins us with more on what we could expect later today. lauryn. >> and even as said, maybe snow in higher elevations later on this afternoon through and now it is a beautiful morning. we had sunshine for a couple of hours. now you cld see the cloud have started to roll in to the area and they will continue to pile in as this system down to the south continues to mosey to e north. winds are not bad. five miles per hour. temperatures up to 49 degrees. we'll top out in the low 50s. this is the massive system headed our way. this is cloud cerer right but you could see, look at this, right t whes "r" is in rally is snow and entering the virginia area and this up the south side of the virginia blue ridge and up the carolina coastline. the thing about this system, if it continues to move out to the coast it will take rain with it. if it hugs the eastern seaboard we'll have a decentramount of here. we'll talk about that and let you know what to expect. we have a big nats game coming t, 7:05 is the first pitch and we'll show yout forecast coming up

lauryn ricketts has the ten-day.d yes, our ten-day forecast, cloudy out there a we have a chance of shower or thunderstorms. a few isolated showers to the evndhef d.c. and culpeper but trise d smallrm c shanceto ones could be on the sg side but otherwise plenty of clouds around and sprinkles in the morning and isolated shower in the evening and cooler. then thursday hot and humid. another 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms. friday is our best chance, still question marken for the week we have to figure out what the front will do. but it still looks like rain around for some part of the weekend beforemproving conditions on sunday. and those improving conditions will continue into early next week. >> lauryn, thanks so much. >>> that l do it for "news4 midday." we're back on the air this afternoon first at 4:00. >> and get news and weather updates any time with the nbc washington app. have a great day, everybody. we'll see you tomorrow morning. ♪ >>> we're live in five, four, three, two, one. ♪ ♪ it's gonna be me >

>> lauryn, don't go far. we'll mo> good rning, weekend washout. severe storms slamming the east coast overnight, affecting millions of americans from north carolina to massachusetts. >>> tornadoes,od ferocious flos and hail the size of quarters causing chaos on the ground. st some of the wor devastation we have seen. >>> the storm snarling air traffic, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. >>> and it'sbout to go from bad to worse, another major storm moving entooe into the mi the country set to drop as much as a half a foot of snow today. >>> the president welcomes japanese leader shinzo abe, we're live at the white house. >>> and mum's the word as t world awts the birth of baby sussex, why theecrecy is sending stress waves among the british press. today is saturday, april 27th, 2019. >>> hey, i'm mike rocket and this is my 35th time at the "today" show. >> we're here toitelp mom wh her bucket list. "today" show check. >> girls weekend. >> no husbands, no kids, it's my 40th. >> good morning, new orleans. we traveled from tennessee fory

beautiful, beautiful weather, lauryn ricketts joins us rest o. yesterday was great.da is great. >> i weather. more cloudsrod it yesterday wasn't that bad, winds out of thsouth, today, cooler. as pretty as 'll have a few more clou 9:30no tempetures are in the mid to upper 50s as youurake ay out the door. you might want t grab the small umbrella, you'r a hanging out it available.rng. but not looking too bad the doo grandma's house or heading to brunch, temperatures the 50s so around 60 by 11:00. outside t d.c. there later dryomorrow and tuesday. but then some moree showers as get toward the end of therk woweek. we'll talk about those and let you kw about the spring -- i ar killrlboro. this is a look at kylie place. officers report of a shooting i a neighborhood. once on scene they found a man outside of his home shot,ti several s, he was pronounced dead on the scene. right now this is an active homicide investigation. once we learn more, we will post it on our nbc washington app. >>> to the latest on a shooting at a maryland church. two people were

. >> lauryn, thank you. e>> police have charged a man in connection to th death of a 3-month-old girl in southeast d.c. an arrest warrant is out for 25-year-old cornell holton. policee say hhit skiler newman so hard it knocked her out and she died three days later. they are offering a reward to any tip to holton's arrestnd conviction. >>> new this morning, take a look at the aftermath of this terrible crash. it happened last night on senary lane in alexandria. eastbound lanes did have to be closed color clean -- for clean-up and that caused police are trying to figure out how that cash happened. >>> over the last decade0 people have died on 210 just before the new year and there have been 134 crashes with injuries along 210. >> now a grass root effort byig neors have resulted in several new speed cameras going up. >> megan mcgrath is live along the road in ft. washington with more on the safety changes. hi, megan. >> reporter: good morning, guys. it has been a grass root efforts. a group of citizens tired of

>> see you soon, lauryn. thank you. >>> there is al water advisory in effect for customers in southern prince george's county. it's because of this water main break. it openedayp yes along indian head highway between fort washington road and old fort road. >> we are live there wit details on a boil water advisory. and the impact this is still having on drive in that area. nicole? >> reporter: sometime in the overnight hours crews opened up the far left lane here. cars have been able to squeeze by giving drivers a little bit of relief all while crews here have been hard at work. would ite a normal daytrithout fic backups somewhere in the dmv? this te water main break is to blame. water spewing into the air sunday afternoon. a 36-inch pipe damaged and yes, slowing down traffic monday. unfortunately it is impacting the morning rush hour. there's only one northbound lane getting by. >> reporter:be crews hav working since the break happened to identify the problem and fix it. on top of that, there's this. >> the b

. >> lauryn, thank you so much. >>> developing this morning, montgomery county police are searching for the gunman involved in a deadly shooting that sent four people to the gespital in antown. one person died. and three others were hurt, including a teenager. police received severalls cal about shots fired last night on curry powder lane. this isn't far from clopper elementary school. this is a quiet, residential area and backed up to a park. chopper4 over the scene as detectives were therein colle evidence. police say it appears everybody involved knew each other. >> this incident occurred in the parking lot area. we do t not, ats time, believe it to be a random event. the suspects fled the scene and we're asking theublic if anyone saw anything to please give us a call and let us know. >> police have not released a suspect description or a motive for the shooting. >>> well, this is becoming an all too familcene in our region. smashed out windows tell the story. >> stop me if you heard this before. a vehicle crashed through the front of a store of a 7-eleven and a group steals the atm

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. >> lauryn ricketts, it is absolutely stunning outside. we're loving it. >> it is beautiful. absolute. we got the sunshine out there this morning. a few more clouds by this afternoon. again, not going to be too bad as we continue through the day. could be an isolated shower later on this afternoon and evenutg. it is beaul out there right now. plenty of sunshine and temperatures responding to that april sun moving right on up. blue skies around the d.c. area. you could have a few high clouds out there, especially to the we. but temperatures, now 60 degrees. i'll change that number at 10:00 a.m. we're at 60 now. we'll head into the low 60s by the time we heado the noon hour. temperatures topping out in the mid-60s for daytime highs today. through the 60s is where we're going to be in our average temperature for this time of year is 68 degrees. no rain out there right now. we're dry. now, could have a few isolated showers later on this afternoon. we have this upper level eew, you some of this spin in the atmosphere. fewp showers will poup here in a second in pennsylvania. we cou

lauryn ricketts says showers could be sticking around.ng a few rain drops this morning. >> you might want to have that umbrella handy this morning. few showers tough the area. few areas of heavy rain right along 70 in mount f airy. moste showers and just light stuff around the beltway. this is going to continue to move through. we have another round of sswers once tront moves through. we could hit a little breakthrough the middle part of the day. temperatures in the 50s. once we get the temperature will drop a little bit. if you're headed out to the, park i think by noon, 1:00 will all right. we'll have to watch for spottyr in showers developing as that front rollsth ugh. just between about 1:30 and which i know is first pitch to about 3:30. but other than that, clearing, breezy going to be the main story today. we dry out late tonight. cold overnight. and then monday, sunny, rain showers late monday night to tuesday. rain showers this week. >> lauryn, thank you very much. >>> back with 90 minutes of news and weather in 25 minutes. see yo

we'll check in with lauryn ricketts toutind o when. when is it coming? >> probably late afternoon, guys. that's when we'll tart to see some sunshine. but not until then. i've got judy writing me from olney, granddaughter's 4-year-old birthday party and bounce house and all sorts of stuff. please get the rain out of here. she wrote me on the facebook page, join me there as well. i love to aner questions and time everything out for you. we're working for you here. i'll try to get the rain showers out for her birthday party. ved, again, we haeen a few showers out there now with this first wave. so a lot of this is passing to the east. not everybody is seeing it. then clearing back behind here. look at thiswe have an isolated shower along i-81. this is all ahead of a frontal system. this frontal system is goinggo head and pass on through. right around the allegheny mountains now. this is going to move on through. could spark a few mor isolated showers as we go through the middle part of the day. a 20% chance that you'll see where you are. one thuing i will s

lauryn? >> very nice conditions out there fo today. temperatures out there hitting into the low 70s for daytime highs. i was talking to amelia, it looks lik the tree pollen is still up. we just got the report so -- if you are heading outside, take the allergy medication. tomorrow temperatures in the mid-60s and then into the 70s h the seconf of friday. those lead in saturday arning. saturdernoon could be dry but tune in for the forecast a little low. widespread showers through the day on sunday and into monday. >> i m officially switched o closet and ow with the fall and winter and now back to spring and summer. >> we're back on the air first atis:00 th afternoon. three, two, one. ♪ >> thank you. you all are about to make me cry before this game. >> evebody was crying. yeah. dwayne wade's last dance comes to an end in miami. so many moments to look a we got a kiss. >> we also got a crash. he smashed into chrissy teigen and john legend who was sting court side with gabrielle.

lauryn, what are we in for the weekend? >> we'ren in for r but not a washout this weekend. we'll have periods of rain but also have piods of a little bit of sunshine. and we saw some sunshine earlier today. temperatures topped out around and we're up to 66 before the noon hour. winds are going to start to shift out of the south but plenty of clouds around today. so temperatures right around 70 degrees. but we've got some thunderstms later on this afternoon. and through this evening with a frontal system taking its good old time moving to the east. so again, we will see some rain showers possible probably by lunchtime and into the early afternoon. but then we've got thunderstorms in the mix for later on tonight. a lot of things going on tonight. it is friday. we have a lot of things going on around town this weekend. rain is not finished afterto ght. we'll talk about timing coming up. >>> see you in aew. georgetown university students taking steps to address a dark part of the school history. they've passed a reparations referendum so call for the creation of a fund to helph

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lauryn rickets is standing by with what you need to know headed into the lunch hour. it was a chilly start. >> it was. that shocked people. the pps were in the 40s, 30s. we had patchy frost. now there's a little bit of cloud cover as well. still iome sunshine portions of our area. sunshine is not doing much to warm us up. you can see at the bottom of your screen, 55 degrees at thean national and all ove region chilly temperatures. i have confidence we'll make it into the 60s today. it's going to be a little below normal for this time of year. we also have some rain on the way. a few more clouds building throughouthe day. we do have some rain showers possibly before the day is ended. rain before the week is over. we'll time that out and talk about this lite bit of warmup that we're having coming our way in the 10-day in 20 minutes. >> all right. thank you, layn. a big heads up if you take the metro. the agency is going to close stations south of the rgan tional airport this weekend for track work. >> thi ois ahead a major summer shutluwn on the b and yellow lines. adam

let's get right to meteorologist lauryn ricketts. >> good morning.ine out there right now. also a few isolated showers before noon. but the big system com in into the afternoon. first one between 2:00 and 6:00. second one between 8:00 and 3:00 a.m. that's going to behe main one. 1 to 3 inches expected. it is going to be windy. we are going to have o worry about isolated tornadoes and flooding. really the main threat is flooding. olated showers but you're walking out to mainly cloudy conditions. all of this is headed our way later on this afternoon and through the overnight is when you're going to want to stay individual lent aboutwehe her. >> thank you. >>> developing this morning, police responding t this crash last night. the suvr crossed the cente of the road and slammed into a utility pole. and a quick heads up, a span of rock creek park and potomac parkway will be closed to both cars and pedestrians starting tonight and lasting through monday morning. the closure is part of the kennedy center expansion project. we'll take a break now and check y

lauryn ricketts. folks are celebrating passover, which started last night at sundown.nty of dry time out there, david. >> nice. >> a lot of our region dry now. that wasn't the case last night. two rolls of rain passed through. a tornado watch and of course we had several tornado warnings that amelia and somara kept track of. and thetorm system that came through the reston area. you see a big hole between route 15 and route 28? that's the sterling radar. this tornado rolled right through reston. just before 9:00. you can see that little

we have clay anderson in r lauryn ricketts who will tell us what our workweek forecast looks like as well. stay with us. >>> >>> 9:30 on this sunday morning. hei's what we're foll for you. the blossoms are still out. peak bloom almost over. this morning, there is going to be an active crowd running around the national mall bause a race. we'll show you what roads to avoid to miss the crowds. >>> a last second foul and three fro shots is what is sending virginia to the national championship game for the first time in the school's history. >> a game. ndercover an investigation showed how some rabbits were being left to die at a local pet store, some good news for some of the animals still being kept at that store. >>> "news 4 today" starts now. >> a lot of uva fansrobably ju waking up after what was a raucous night of celebrating. s to the cavs as they move on. thank you for being here with us on this sunday morning. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. what a game it was. more on that. we have a quick traffic alert to get to you right away the northbound lanes of bw parkway shut do

. >> all right, lauryn. thanks so much.update in 25i tes. >> for now back to the "today" show after this short break. have a great day. >>> you have just j >>> you havt set a one-day record. again. $131,127. >> we are back at 7:30 on this thursday morning. and that is james holtower. he is the jeopardy champion on a ten-game winning streak. we're going to hear from him about his unprecedented success ahead. if you haven't watched this guy compete, his strategy, it's something to behold. >> it's like a professional gambler. i thin h he knows whate's doing. obviously. let's get right to the headlines is morning. lawmakers in the public will get their look today at a redacted version of robert elmuler's report. the nearly 400-page report on russian interference and obstruction is stirring controversy even before it's . released he zscheduled has news conference this morning before it's made public. nd nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are call for mueller himself to come testify as soon as possible. >>> the ceo of boeing took a t

we got clay anderson in for lauryn ricketts today. he's bringing the good news ande we're her for it. >> good morning. yes, the sun will rise in four minutes, actually 6:34. you see it starting to breakthrough the clouds. looking forward to a very nice sunday. particularly yesterday, we started out cloudy, ended up sunny.da is going to be reverse. start out with mostly sunny skies. and clouds in thefternoon will start to have overcast before sunset. here is a view as wefr see i our within doe windows. a nice sunday across our region. temperaturor your neighborhood include gaithersburg and montgomery county, baltimore to north, 45 degrees, prince george's county, 44 degrees and out in virginia, dulles coming in at 48 degrees. what you need to know today, sunny is that starts out and ends up cloudy, warmer today, but a stormy monday. more details on that and cools wednesday.not until so enjoy today, tomorrow, all the details, a lot more. stay with us. >> thank you very much, cl. >>> happening now, many runners iod walkers are getting re

. >> all right, lauryn. thank you. of paris. historic notre dame cathedral. drag is where. wel talk to him as well. before that, we just got some great news in our "today" show family our colleague hoda kotb has a new addition to her family. take a look. >> are you there? >> oh, i'm here. hi, guys! >> toet you have somng to tell us? >> yes, i do.