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lauryn ricketts was tweet itting, beautiful behind you. a lot of folks have an outdoor think tank, festival, d.c. bike on. , graduations going >> right about that.gr duation ceremonies. listen, having a ceremony in the morning, usually do, gong to be nice. good we're having them in the morning, because it's going to really heat up as we get into the af but a little touch of humidity, and possibly a little touch of rain. we are seeing isolated showers out there. again, isolated being the key word here. hazy out there, but a beautiful sun at 5:53. just tweeted out that foephoto. gorgeous out there. a mix of sun and clouds through the day. frontal system sagging to the south. a lot of rain along the front is running into stable air. again, a lot of these shers are weakening as they enter our area. you could see a few sprinkles. a few around baltimore and i-70. but again, just light stuff rolling through the area. of course, preakness going on today. lk more about that. 65 degrees. that's our temperature right now. as far as d.c. bike ride, pr

minute >> lauryn, thank you very much. >>> the rainthat lauryn was talking about is already causing major problems for drivers. we're talking about a five mile stretch of t gw parkway that is still shdown. >> could stay that way for several more days. live now, derrick ward joins us from along the parkway. good morning. >> reporter: good morning again. we're here at champ bridge road and the ramp which is closed because of that sinkhole. take a look, crews got down there yesterday and they also let some of our news crews down it take a look at that sinkhole, 10 feet long, 20 feet deep and 30 feet wide in the same area of the sinkhole that happened in march, they had to close for several days. now, the cause understand is also similar, has something to do with the heavy rain we had and the age of the inkeastructure. a look. we did hear from an official with the park service yesterday about this tisitua. >> so both this and the previous sinkhole that happened in march were caused by large rain events. all about water moving off the roadway and into the drainage system that is built under th

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>>lauryn, the big question, is this rain over? re well, we still have a few showers out the righto melissa, unfortunately. a few light ones. in and out oe the clouds but, boy, has it been a wet may so far. in fact, the last 12 months have been the wet -- the wettest we've seen on record here in the last 12 mths with over an average 36 ines of rain. let me tell you one thing, we have four inches of rain so far this may. you could see showers streaming in now. and just to the south around thr ericksburg area seeing isolated showers. could be more steady in spots around the eaar and marine base quantico and cappa hanik seeing a few lightow shs. we'll have that chance for isolated showers through the day but keep your ngers crossed they could get that patch work done on the gw parkway. temperatures in the 50s. topped out at 60 degrees a couple of hours ago but with the clouds the temperature fell again. cool today but a warm-up cominr ouay and also more rain coming our way. we'll talk about that on the future-cast in ten minutes. >> l

hey, lauryn. >> well we're look at temperatures, low to mid-80s for day time highs. have showers just to the south of our region. but againnl mai d.c. and south. they could clip northern virginia but that is about a 10% chance and the fther south better chance of seeing storms. but out to virginia beach or north carolina beaches, best chance at seeing severe weather. otherwise saturday, showers lingering ouj and southeast of d.c. anch another ce of a pop up shower but most of us dry. showers here and there and sunday, not a wahout but we stay with the humidity and comfortable conditions and tuesday heatand humidity and monday and tuesday gorgeous. frontal system on thursday and that could kick off more showers and thunder aorms. friday saturday of the next week, looking good. >> all right. sounds good. >> we can work with it. >> yes, we can. >> that is nbc4, thank you for being with us. we're back on the air this afternoon first at 4:00. >>eret news and weath updates any time with thebc washington n what's funexpected? a getaway where marching to the beat of a differ

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lauryn, thank you. right now a recovery effort is underway in the potomac river.s thiis video showing divers, boats and helicopters searching fortune an suv near roosevelt island late last night. this mning search crewsare back out on the water. >> cory smith is live there this morning on roosevelt island with the latest. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, we spent the morning watching a police boat go up and down the potomac river searching for any signs of this suv. in fact, in the last few minutes buoy between roosevelt island and the banks of the potomac. right now the biggest mystery is whether or not someone was actually inside of this suv befe it we into the water. as daylight broke, search and recovury crews retned to the potomac river. u.s. coast guardnd coting a first search from the air while a boat combed therea where a witness says a car drove into the waters late sunday night. according to coast guard, that witness heard a splash and saw the car floating in the river. but cannotrm co

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. >> lauryn ricketts is here with a look at the forecast. really nice start to the day, it is beautiful outside. >> it is gorgeous. fru're right, guys. and you could see darcy's live shot a little on the breezy side. but we'll take it. so of course we'llgh have pollen running around and we'll get the pollen report through this hour. but again, it is gorgeous. it is nice. it is comfortable out there w. right n temperatures out there as we continue through the day are going to be rising into the 70s. low to mid-70s.em 65 is our tperature now. and again we'll continue to see the teams rise into the low tom 70s throughout the day. we still have the wind that won't go anywhere and will stick with us through the day. so a breakn the heat for now. because as we head into this weekend, looks like this will start to come back. the humidity will start to build and, guess what, we'll have ormst i nto tcehe memorial day weekend. so that is what everybody is talking about. fe do have one rain chance before the end ohe week. that is on thursday. so we'll

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minute >> lauryn, thank you very much. >>> the rainthat lauryn was talking about is already causing majordrivers. we're talking about a five mile stretch of t gw parkway that is still shdown. >> could stay that way for several more days. live now, derrick ward joins us from along the parkway. good morning. >> reporter: good morning again. we're here at champ bridge road and the ramp which is closed beus

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be look outside, much calmer, lauryn ricketts, you're thinking things could get wet once again today? >> i think things will be on the wet side later this afternoon. a few spotty showers rig now. anything we are seeing out there right no is just light. we're going to continue to see spotty showers as we go through the morning, and then later on this afternoon, that's when they're goi p tock up a little in intensity. saw early morning sunshine, and f sun elieve some peeks or at least limited sunshine. if you're north and east. a lot of this rain is pushing in from the south and west. areas north and east, you may be the last to seeit. a patch of showers i'm looking at now. light stuff falling in the district. up through montgomer county through frederick and towards the fredericksburg area. i widen out the view. this is what's coming our way. knocking on our doorstep by the middle part of the afternoon. again, pushing in from the south andst weoving to the north and east. currently those temperatures, 66 degrees. winds out of the north. really not that bad. goingo be cooler today. list

what you inking, lauryn?lling in headingnto mother's day. we time everything out to plan out your weekend. up. s comin >>> also coming up, the search l for a kil continues after a woman was gunned down in an office parking lot.or this mning we're learning more about the shoing crime and the woman who lost herlife. >>> a sinkhole could throw off your weekend lans. one major road closed, and another shut down for construction. latest look at the roads that you need to avoid just ahead. those stories and much more. we're going to get your mother's day weekend started off just ht rig rig the "ws4 today" continues ne in rig the "ws4 today" continues ne (music throughout) >> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. >>> gunfire in a maryland office park leaves one woman dead. this morning police scraming to track down the shooter. >>> two major road closures to walk you through this morning. they could onve you turned around on where you need to go his mother's day weekend. >>> and it's a shortage you wouldever expect.u

lauryn ricketts is tracking what's going on. you were at the apple festival? >> it is. i learn ed laura mcpherson was there. >> what do you think of the weather for today? >> listen, up in the air last weekend. the same today. however, we believe a lot of rain is coming our way. waves of rain moving through our area, all throughout the weekend. ce again, similar to last weekend. sunday looks a lot more wet tha your saturday. beautiful sunrise, though. we're dry out there right now. the sun coming up just now over he horizon but it is a beautiful morning already. it will not, unfortunately, be a beautiful day, as will continue to see some rain. now, we're seeing a little rainfall just to the south and west at thisoint nap could scoot into our area, but this is the wave we're watching moving through later on continuing through the afternoon and the day. something we're watching. can't rule out a few showers, not eve a few streaks of sunshine towards baltimore. get you a planner for mother's day coming up in about 15 minutes. >> see you in the studio around then. >>> right

. >> lauryn, thank you. >>> new overnight, d.c. police are searching for the person who shotenwo m in southeast. 36-year-old william boik kin of dist heights, maryland, and this is in the 2600 block of bernie place southeast a few blocks from the berry farm recreational center and d.c. police say that is where four men and a boy were injured during a shooting last afternoon. this is part of a violent memorial day weekend. this is justin finch. >> reporter: to another scene hours before and just up the street from that bernie place shooting. this is a shootin near the berry farm rec center off the 1200 block of sumner road where five people were shot and four men and one boy and their injuries nonlife-threatening and police looking into that case, a silver or gray nissan sedan that eould be related. at this time policave not said if that shooting had is any any linked to that bernie place shooting but we'll bring you more details as we get them on air and and our nbc washington app. i'm justin finch, nbc4. >>> and difficult return t

. >>> and now let's send things over to lauryn. >> beautiful day. maybe not as sunny as yesterdayk but we'll tit. >> we'll take what we could get. it is not pouring outside or pouring outside. we doud have some clo cover. and if you are not seeing cloud cover and in frederburg or quantico and out through the northern neck and maryland, you are seeing more sunshine thandi the rict but eventually you'll have more clouds as we continue through the afternoon as well. country -- current temperatures again, 60 to the north and west, we have 70s for those inrene. a astt is the way it will be. cooler to the north and west. a little warmer to the south and east. because look at this, there is the line of clouds. so you are getting that sunshine right here and what is happening is we've got a frontal system that is b ecting the area and bringing cooler and cloudy conditions to the north and went and sunnier conditions to the south and iast. but could it any rain. well it is getting unsettled starting today. today is the transition day. we'll talk about the en

lauryn ric tts tracks that for you, > welcome back, everybody.eteorologist lauryn ricketts. 30% chance of rain today, tomorrow and monday. especially humid particularly monday. now. out there temperatures in the 60s. 69 in annapolis. a few isolated showers across virginia. shore of maryland. tnto t headed the d.c. bike ride, temperatures today in the mid-70s with just an isolated chance of showers. likely dry for that, l andely dry throughout the day. 30% chance of rain sunday and monday. temperatures moving up. die brie tuesday, wednesday of next week and lookinggood. >> thanks, lauryn. >>> back in 25 minutes with another update to news and weather. for now, back to the "toda. >>>eep it going. keep your hands up. >> that video doesn't get you. u don't have a heart. back on this saturday morning may 18, 2019. you may have seen this video that touched millions wi nation. that's 9-year-old lucas, ecstatic when his dad surprised him coming home from deployment in syria. i had a chance to meet this family. how the military deployments affect children

right, lauryn ricketts. >> absolutely. outse or lunch outside, do it all. of pollenas well.the blue skies wre seeing. we have clear@wkú skies across wrongw@>= -- across the regiona t is beautiful tuesday mid-afternoon -- mid-morning into7t)[b mid-afternoon. 72 oure. temperatur and humidity still in check. so really not feeling that bad area. xt we go over the ne 12 hours, fulqçfwç sunshine,temperatur topping out in the mid-80s for humidity, the most$áw> importan thing. sun does not go down until about five minutes after 8:00 and then the clouds roll in setting the scene for tomorrow. we have a big change for tomorrow and in for the rest of the "nñworkweek, we'll show youy and show youu+@b exactly what w mean in a few minutes. >> we'll see you then, laury thank you. >>> we're following multiple developing stories this midday. ueñ loun county that left one person dead. this happened around 6:30 this morning on u.s. 15 neare road south of luck ets shutting down causing a headache for commuters. to vehicles were involved. >> and we're waiting to l arn more aboomicide invest

storm team 4's clay aiken is with us in for lauryn ricketts. >> good morning. rain and thunder last night. looks like we'll do it all oer again not only today but actually sunday the soggier of the two days of the weekend. so you what's going on outside right now. yes, there will be a flash flood watch. a flash flood watch ton ht, and it covers everyone, everyone. from baltimore, washington, d.c., all across the shenandoah valley, talking fairfax county, down to prince williams coun stretches to interstate 81. the reason for that, heavy rain, one to three inching, starts at 8:00 p.m. until tomorrow morning. give you the details, count it down and give you a timeline as rain showers move through. the key, the more sunshine today, the more rain tonight into tomorrow. davi when i talk to you we'll give you the forecast and a preview of next week. back to you. >>> i'm melissa mollet with a ok at your first 4 traffic and metro this morning. stations will be closed, and buses replaceth train e's. tell you what we're talking about. yellow line. huntington, kingston,dd

lauryn rickets joinsi us what we need to know. >> good morning. another hazy morning. another warm mo ing. the temperatures didn't even get out of the 70s in a lot of spots during the overnight hours and now we're headed into the 80s and eventually topping out around 90. a little hazy out there early on d i guess i shouldn't say early. mid-morning on this monday morning. 79 degrees. we'll continue to go up. it's going to be humid and hot. not a lot onradar. we have a chance for some scattered showers and thunderstorms developing right on time for the evening conoute. everybody is going to see them. but we'll a chance to see some of them pop up later today given the heat. now, let's talk about the storms today but also talk about the cooldown that's on our way. we'llhow you that and memorial day weekend. we have that on our ten-day. that's coming up. >> lauryn, thank you >>nchlkt new this morning some terrifying moments for a family in montgomery county. a large tree came crashing down on this home nearly missing an 11-year-old child who was sleeping. you can see the tr

and in for lauryn ricketts. a lot of folks doing outdoor work to beautify seabrook elementary school. weatherwise, dealing with rain this mohening? >> tog moves out and everybody sees, if yto want do outdoor activities, don't let the fog stop you. get it done. you need to cut the grass, the grass will be a bit wet. trust me, a lot wetter tomorrow. more than it is outside right now. with that, startwith what we expect to happen at about 8:00 p.m. tonight, and that willa be flash flood watch. that will be put in place for the entire listening and viewing area. talking from 8:00 p.m. tonight until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning covering areas north and south, i-95 corridor. 270 north and west. interstate 66 to the west and interstate 81 well into the s n shenandoah valley. the apple blossom parade is going on today. yardwork early -- early. tore form, jog, tomorrow, hopefully waterproof gear. and still rather warm. no realsh raiers across the area right now for the washington, d.c. meat tra paul tin area. the story, e

a check of w ourther with lauryn ricketts.ere now in the s and 70s. we're going to be topping out in the 80s by noon. headed to right around s degreetoday. cattered ave a few showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. nothing happening out there now. we'll see likely a few pop as we afternoon.the after 2:00, 3:00. heavy rain one of the main threats with gusty winds. .aybe a small chance for ha and, again, just small hail if we did see any. we also have a chance for tomorrow. hazy, hot and humid o the next two days. we get into tuesday and wednesday, looking better for tuesday and wednesday. temperatures in the 70s a 80s by thursday. now memorial day weekend looks dry. >> thank you very much. >>> we're back with more new and weather in 25 minutes. for now, back to sunday "today." nothing can stop us now 're having such a good time ♪ ♪ don't stop us now you want distraction give yeezy a call ♪ >> alec baldwin back as president trump and sing something queen before "snl" goes on a long summer break. >>> four years ago tom

he's in for lauryn ricketts this rning. it looks like our forecast will be pretty perfect for today. huh, clay? >> meagan, rath pleasant with temperatures only in the low 80s. passing morning clouds, everyone, don't worry, the sun will break through in a few hours. those traveling, that are visiting here in the washington awea, welcome you here. morning clouds throughout the area. temperatures in the 60s. 65 in buoy, 67 in the nation's capital. a lot of 60s to go around looking forward to a pleasant saturday across our area and for the forecast, not a bad way to enjoin the forecast. 're looking for temperatures to rise into the low 80s today and then for sunday, if you like it hot and humid,we have that for you as well. sunday in the 90s. meagan, i'll give everyonelehe compte forecast in a few minutes. ba>>k to you. clay, thank you. >>> developing th morning a sigh of relief. remember the story about the woman with ties to maryland who ent missing aftr hiking in hawaii? she's been found alive. this picture here just coming

for the latest we check in with clay anderson in for lauryn ricketts.d morning, clay. >> good morning, meagan. and good morning to all of you. yes, weatherwise you won't be disappointed by your saturday, everyone. in fact, temperatures are rising to oursouth. warmer in areas of the commonwealth and virginia than what they are here inside the beltway. take a look. what i mean. temperatures 69 degrees here at reagan national. notice to the south and west picking up warmer temperatures as in culpepper now 73 degrees. eve ain cross southern portions of the shenandoah valley, temperatures warming up nicely. in the 70s. for your saturday, sunday and wibeyond, temperatures be in the low 80s. again a threat of a late-day shower. more into sunday and monday as the hot weather moves in for sunday, and then meagan, by monday more clouds and sunshine and a chance for storms. high temperature in the mid-80s. details and the forecast coming up in just a moment. >> good to me. thank you, clay. >>> developing this morning, a sigh of relief. remember the story about the

lauryn, thank you so much. >>> that is it for nbc4 midday. thank you for joining us.re back on the air first at 4:00. get the latest news and weather updates any time and there will be a lot of them today. you could find them in the nbc washington app. have a great deal and we'll see you this afternoon. never choose between keeping your kitchen safe or bei. because new raid ants & roach, infused with plant-based active ingredients lets you have both. safely defend your kitchen. it's good to be tough. sc johnson >>> we're live in five, four, three, two, one. >> look at that. >> take that picture in, everybody. incredible. that's the largest class of african-american women ever graduating from west point. >> 32 women will be graduating next saturday. that's the largestarroup in the 216-yeistory. this is incredible. congratulations to everybody. it was really very cool. when women look at this photo, they want them to realize the ility and fortitude to be a force to be reckoned with. >> that is awesome. think about west point. wh incredible. >>> big day here on this

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>>a yes, it w storm team 4 and telemundo 44 ballpark.ver the and chuck, lauryn, dog,el am, somara andoseph were there to understand the weather in our area. and then -- doug showing off his reliving his glory days throwtcg out the first pih to make the day even better, the nats won, praise god, hallelujah. >> he went to college on a baseball scholarship and went on a sciencep. scholars that is how we decided who would throw out the first pitch. >> good decision. >> it would have been ang under-handed toss. >> what a fantastic day. a ig and you hve a mean forecast. >> absolutely r. and the forecast for today, tricky. mother nature playing hard ball. the cloudhave hung around longer. so i've had to lower my high temperature down from 84 to 80. so still plenty warm. but these clouds have been really hanging on tough here this morning. not a big chance for rain even clouds. of th there are a couple of showers across parts of northern virginia but no everyone will get rained on today. the clouds have held temperatures down. re n with a south breeze, w only 64 degrees now in washington with

storm team lauryn ricketts explains. >> it might be easy to believe over the last couple of days wheneen getting rain, but the u.s. drought monitor only about 9%, 10% of the country experiencing drought conditions. th's from abnormally dry all the way to exceptionally dif. you go to exceptionallydry, it's less w than 3%ch is the first time it's been that since since2000. this is why. .ook at this hel heavy rain has fallen over the last year. you can see double digits.ou that purpose yill is the farthest away from the normal precip rate. we've gotten double digits fan verage year. you cant see wha 12 month period in the lower 48? this was last year. 12 consecutive months from may of 2018 to april of 2019. a lot of that was from florence and also that wet winter that we had on tap. so since the800s the lower 48 recip rate has increased from 29 inches to 31 inches. january, 2018, 40% of the u.s. had drought condition 2018 and december only 20%. then we had the wet nter. as quick as we can get rid of them, they may come back and that's all due to climate change. we'll continue to watch th

i see lauryn ricketts, r weather guru. it's why our newsroom is so empty today. hi, guys. >> it was very odd, they're, like, okay, how many people are on the list? you count 31, 32. wait a second here. >> so many people are here that somebody came up to us and said whose farewell party are you celebrating in no farewell party. we're down here enjoying weather day at nats park. >> for us coming out to work was first meeting with 1,600 kids. we were able to talk to the kids out weather. then throwing out the first pitch. we got to shake hands with some of the players as they came out, then we go the to watchhe game and now this is what we're doing. >> this is the second year. hopefully we'll be here a third yea come on down next we are. we came down to say hi again. >> so much gun. salt re in front of the line as well. we've had the pizza. we've had the soft shell crab. next.er what's >> lobster roll? >> that's me. favorit maybe we'll have some of that. we're talking summer forect. we gave you the hurricane forecast. i want to talk about the precipitation, the rain

we had chuck bellm and aelia draper and lauryn ricketts and from telemundo 44 had joseph martinez.g different kinds of weather and showing the kids what it is likeo t the weather here in this area and how varied our weather is. just how mh fun we have doing the weather in this area. just so cool because we have the four seasons. we have hurricanes, we have ornados, we have the heat, we have the snow. we have the blizzards and the ti kids had doing that and we got to -- you could hear them giving away the t-shirts and sunglasses and still doing that now. if you come down toward the centerfield gate we'll give that out. now if you come later in afternoon, we're going to be live right outside here right by the anacostia, at the salt line and i'll do the weaer and amelia drape ser joining me and we'll meet people. gme on down and say hello and we havets for you as well. however, what the real deal is today, not just weather day, we're doing the summer forecast today. i'm giving that out this afternoon at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. i'm talking about how many hurricanes we could e ect in the a

tracking it all in for lauryn ricketts thisng morni is clay anderson with the weekend weather. woue the day. low level moisture across the area and fog, but that's due to the rain showers on friday. wake up the next day with a lot of low-level moisture, hu

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admitting now to paying more than $600,000 to get their daughters into college and here's their daughter lauryn the parents say they did pay to get her in the u c l a on a soccer scholarship and they also say they paid a bribe to get their younger daughter into usc on a recruiting or ira rowing scholarship and she wasn't even a roller. the isaacson's now face a maximum of 20 years in prison. there are a dozen other parents, including actress felicity huffman who have already signed plea agreements in the college scandal, but this actress lori loughlin and her husband have pleaded not guilty they're going to fight it. >>here in the bay area, the defense will begin its opening statement this morning and ago ship trial that trial started yesterday and oakland with the prosecution laying out its case to the jury. derek elmen a and max harris are charged with 36 counts each of involuntary manslaughter for the fire that broke out back in 2016 now prosecutors say the men put party goers at risk with the warehouses makeshift electrical system and knowingly created a fire trap with not enough exits defe

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head over to clay andson in for lauryn ricketts. good morning. ouldn't ask for a better morning?:00 a.m. by the 9:00 a.m. hour sun is breaking through. looking forward to a very nice saturday, everyone. temperatures outside cooperating as well. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. notice the 70s out to our west and southwest. manassas at 71 and things to know this weekend, art dry gets warmer as the weekend goes on. today plenty of sunshine to go around. tomorrow we'll talk about hot nd humid conditions, and for memorial day, the threat of showers and thunderstorms loom throughout the afternoon and evening. meagan all the details and extended recast as well maybe looking at one of our first heat waves.