southbound 95, lorton. all travel lanes blocked. 95 northbound coming up through spotsylvania and fredericksburg, north of route 1, that's cleared but everybody is on to the oulder. on t inner loop of the beltway, in maryland a crash on the right side. outer loop runs without lay, from 95 to georgia avenue.y attention, southbound, 95, again in lorton, all lanes closed. back to you. all right, jack, thank you. >>> it's 5:23 right now. the amount of rain we' received over the past couple weeks has created a perfect breeding ground for mosquitos. >> yeah, they're everywhere. news4's justin finch is working for you howseo fight tho mosquitos that are ready to bite. >> reporter: enough,hahat's w we're all saying about our recent spell of unrelenting but when the rain goes away, get ready for a flood of mosquitos. >> tiny little water bottle cap which carries abo half a teaspoon of water that can breed 300 mosquitos easily. >> reporter: mosquitos. they're annoying and can be a health hazard. so what you can do to

d of the ramp from westbound lorton road to southbound.t road remains closed as does the right through lane. as we zoom it out a little bit, back in newington, northbound there was a rubber necking slowdown and a crash and riding toward 123.t the accid scene was in the left scene. and you're not too bad as ride up the inbound bridge. the closureemains southboun 95, right through lane. but at least you've got three left lan getting by the scene. activity southbound. d.c.295. benning road. and one broken downloing the right lane. causing a delay quickly. angie, aaron, back to you. >> 6:53, your taste buds could land you a dream job. the company behind nutella is looked fored so-ca sensory judges. you also get to taste the mpany's other treats. the company is going to choose 60 people for trainingext month. only four will be selected for two tasting panels. ere's a catch,though, you have to be able to relocate in the company's headquarters in alba, italy. >>> we're crossing our ngs, right now, for d.c.'s little league team. >> yeah the team k

heading a little bit soth, lorton, before lorton road.locking center lane. >> prince williams parkway, the crash on the left shoulder, no major issues on thelt y. your travel times 270 from germantown to the spur, okay. normal slowdowns, outer loop and 270. 66 inbound. 95 northbound. both going 40 miles per hour. listen to 103.5 fm when you hop in your car.g >>> good morn everybody. wednesday morning off to a delightful. sun is up and clear skies. that allowed most of the sub urs to dlophe well down into630s this morning. here's what you need to know about the weather. it's comfortable right now. 90-degree days are back today, tomorrow, friday. three i a row 90 or higher. not much of a rain threat. but rain chances creep back into the forecast on friday. it will lead to at least slightly cooler weather into the weekend. right now, a beautiful 63 degrees in charles town, west virginia. 63 in purcellville. 73 in arlington, virginia this morning. planner today, all sunshine all the time. temperatures mid-80s by o ime. around 90 to 91 for aig

lorton the expressways left side is blocked by a disabled vehicle there.aking a look a frederick, southbound 270 after urbana have a cra there and left lane at first. we thought it was a disabled vehicle and now we know it is a crash. we have the delays headed southbound this morning. inbound suitland parkway. one lane getting by at the crash there. >>> a number of groups were on aler for white nationalists, ks but the f protesting them who made the most noise. some of the people identifying asld police. this happened more than an hour after the white nationalist group left. police pepper sprayed and despite the tensions no major problems were reported. >>> 6:32. now, there is outrage over how the white supremacist marchers were transported downtown for yesterday's rally. metro's largest uni was given special b accommodationsy being vate train board a p car. d e private train car came after metro said it wot reserve a special train for the group. metro's largest union is calling for the general manager to be firedin paul wiedefeld to employees about the tr

lorton is our trouble spot, southbound on i-95. trailer up righted but the ramp remains closed. this is from earlier. scu'll see chopper 4 flying over the e. three through lanes are getting by. northbou 95, the crash still blocks the left lane. there, we stillave slowdowns coming out of tumfries. you'lllso findt m street we have a broken down dump truck, sounds like it will behere for a little bit. it's still blocking the right lane, causing some sizable slowdowns off the 295 inbound on the 11. back to you. >> jack, thank you. we'll have a check on your forecast coming up. >>> good morning. another hot, humid day. temperature in the 90s again, but theumidity may make it feel like the upper 90s. you could have an isolated afternoon shower, but we go into tomorrow, still in the 90s, still humid. rain chae higher. >> another local news update in 25 minutes. >> n back to "today." >>> 7:30 now on a monday morning, august 6th, 2018. you're listening to the remarkable uniondale rhythm of the night show r. they along with their director, y

taking a look at the road, southbound 95 here before lorton road in virginia. had theeft side blocked as well. looks like everything is over on the right in rockville. watts branch flooding. scottf drive west wootton parkway closed. in shreve mill a-- near bank field, the road was washed away by heavy rain. lots of repairs starting this morning. aaron. >>> melissa, thank you. want to continue our team thverage. erika gonzalez alive desk. >> good morning, aaron. the crews working throughout the night to rescue a lot of folks. take a look at these pictures from montgomery fire andue re officials say they conducted multiple water rescues throughout the region due to one of those rescues happening near the intersection of glenn mill road andle road in potomac. another one, kwins orchard road in north potomac. the national weather servic says each year have flooding than any other storm-related hazard. a goodeminder as chuck was mentioning. turn around, don't badrown. over to you in the studio. >> erica, thank you. weurn to two developing stories. washington is watc

hearing of a new crash south on 95 as us approach lorton, be careful on the left side of the roadway. carroll t.county,airy. 27, southbound, arch road and pen shop road, there's a paving project going an. it it may be rough payment as crews get out there. it may cause a delay. angie, back to you. >>> an update tha a story a lot of you responded to last week. a gay high school valedictorian who said that his parents rejected w himl attend school this fall on a full ride. the jacksonville teen sd when his parents learned he was gaye refused to cover his other expenses. over the weekend, we learned thow georgetown is offering him a full scholarship. a gofundme page helped to raise more than $129,000. he said he plans to use that money to help other lgbtq students. >>> and shoppers beginning with no sales tax. school supplies, shoes, clothe i was out there and completely forgot it was back-to-school time. if you missed out you canake advantage of maryland's tax-free holiday on athust 12. each item must cost less than $100. you can find a list of exempt items in the nbc washington app. >>>

despite t soliciting sign,el a cl phone salesman paid an unscheduled visit to richards construction in lortonobile and they had fabulous plans. >> reporter: larry richard's plan with another provider was ready for a makeover, he needed 15 new phones. he was intrigued at what the sales guy had to offer. >> free international texts and calls, cover all our termination costs from our other vendor, free new iphones for all of our guys. i thought how can weon go >> reporter: it did go wrong. when richards construction received et cetera first cell phone bill from t-mobile. >> it was abo $6,000. $5,000 of that was the cell phones that were free. >> reporter: international calls, those weren't freeei ther. >> tried to reach theoentleman old everything to us. couldn't reach him at all. >> didn't call you back? >> didn't call me back. >> reporter: he did get ahold someone at t-mobile. that's when he discovered his contract was different than what he thought head agreedto. >> that's what got us. even though a lot of the things ales rep told us were partially true, they weren't all true. >> reporter: la

so allanes are running on i-95 overturned in lorton. with chopper 4 above the scene you can see how traffic slowed down to getround the accident. we're told the driver was not seriously hurt. >> metro wl not make separate trains available to white nationalists coming int d washington,.c. for nday's unite the right rally. the idea was proposed but within the next hour they announced separate trains are not part of the safety trains. there's concern ahead of the rally because one woman died when protesters clash at last year's unitehe right rally in charlottesville. >>> gates who had a senior role with paul manafort is getting set to testify. on of manafort's accountants has already admitted to falsifying his tax record at his request. >> president trump is turning up the heat on tehran reinstating tough sanctions after pulling out of the iran nuclear deal, but he's facing some heat himself in connection with the infamous meeting at the trump tower during the presidential campaign. i blayne alexand tracking this for us this afternoon. >>

in lorton those express lanes near fairfax county parkway and left side blocked. inner loop and outer loop no problem there. 270 looks good, too. orange and silver single tracking between smithsonian and also right now additional delays both ways. signal issue at federal triangle on orange and silver. travel timesnmaryland, no problem. travel times in virginia will start getting slow. listen to wtop when you hop in your car. aaron? >> all right, melissa, thank you. >>> 5:55 right now. we're helping get ready for school and right now shoppers in maryland don't have to pay sales tax on certain items.ry nd's tax-free holiday started yesterday and will run through august 18th through saturday. until then, you won't have to pay sales tax on clothin or footwear that costs $100 or less per item. the first $40 of a backpack or bookbag will be tax free. >>> the baltimore orioles rolled out the red carpet to welcome mamie hnson's little league team from thedistrict. the first predominantly african-american team to reach the mid-atlantic tournament making our area so proud.

the no soliciting side, a cell phone salesman p an unscheduled visit to richard's construction in lorton he said he was wh t-mobile and said he had a fabulous plan. >> reporter: richard was ready for a kwlakover and needed is a new phones so he was intrigued with what the sales guy had offered. >> free international texts and calls, cover all our termination costs from our other vendor free new iphones for all of our guys. you know, i thought how could we go wrong? >> it d go wrong when richard's construction received its fir cell phone bill from t-mobile >> it was about $6,000. 5,00 of that was the cell phones that were free. >> reporter: and international calls, yeah, those weren't free either. >> tried to reach the gentleman that sold everything to us and couldn't reach him at rall. orter: he just didn't call you back? >> didn't call us back. >> reporter: but he did get ahold of someone at t-mobile and that's when he discovered his contract is much different than agreed to. ght he >> that's what got us, because even though a lot of the things that the sales rep told us were partially

everybody into the low 80s and 91 lorton and 94 toward fredericksburg and 9 isn d.c. would. have been higher than that if ia 't for the storms that came through around 3:00, 4:00, 5:00p if you're sg out the front door tomorrow morning on the humid side and dry i think. 87 by noon and i think the storms start to develop around 1:00, 2:00 or 3:00 and come through the d.c. metro area, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00 and into 7:00 tomorrow. going for a high around 93. 94 degrees. 14 degrees with a heat indexbe een 100 and 105. good chance and a chance of storms and thunderstorms.si storms could py be severe and isolated storm on thursday and friday. nothing to worry b.most of us should remain on the dry side and t90 onrsday and 89 degrees on friday and saturday a 60% -- a 40% chance of afternoon showers and storms with a high of 86 and85 on sunday and monday and a lot more in the way of rain chances sunday and monday. a lot more in the way of rain chances, and we dry out as we head towards the end of next all in all we're looking at a couple of chances for some strong s you toknow whe

southbound 295 at east capitol have a c lsh on tt side, and northbound 95 at lorton road, a little slowunn >> thank you. a check on the forecast is coming up next >>> good morning, everybody. a lot of clouds across the region. just a few sprinkles of very light rain. t of are drying up and m the remainder of the day will be dry. low 70s around town rightnow. afternoon highs will be in the upper 70s and low 80s. more sunshine back later onthn afternoon. another chance for potentially strong thunderstorms comes back dnr tomorrow. then on day, the humidity goes bye bye bye for a couple days. bright sunshine, low humidity thursday, friday, and saturday. >> thank you. another local news update in a 25 minutes. >> for now, back to "today." ♪ start the day with the chicken you love. get the feeling of chick-fil-a, for breakfast. ♪ >>> 7:30 on a monday morning, august 20th, 2018. big day for ourgh nrs at radio city musal hall because that is going to be the setting for the mtv video music awards that. are tonig that's why they're blocking off the streets. >> if we get in line right now, maybe we