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and to manassas, sudly road after 66. you can get around it, there's a detour in place. >> melissa, thank you. >>> it's 6:02. if you plan to hit the you won't be alone.ll ns of people will head out of town for the fourth of jy. >> justin beltway with how traffic is looking so far. so far, so good, justin? >> reporter: yeah. so far, s good, erika. on this terrible tuesday, aaa says your travel times on freeways could doub. that includes the busy beltway here, so far, has been looking pretty good. aaa says this afternoon, perhaps, the early afternoon,yo will start to see a major uptick of cars on the roadst efore the evening commute, as workers choose to leave work early, to get a run on the roadways here. aaa saying that more than 1 million people from the d.c.o area, will be tra miles or more for the fourth of july. and before any long trip. if you're driving, you want to make sure your car is in shape, especially for this hot summer heat. >> when you're traveling, thera hotter temres do impact your car travel. make sure

the heat index is 103 right now in d., but notice manassas at 74. why? that's where the rain is helping to cool things out just a little bit. again, i do think the temperatures a the heat indll o right back up, amelia, once it moves through. we'll toss it back inside to amelia because this is something we've been watching. the all-star g ne haser been cancelled due to rain. tracking a chance of showers and thunderstorms tomorrow. however, right now we think they will get it in. >> absolutely. i think all of the activity tomorrow i goingo be before the all-star game. take a look. here's your forecast. a high tomorrow of 90 degrees. it's muggy so it's feeling like temperatures are in the upper 90s with rain and thundndstorms ar from mainly noon until 7:00 or 8:00 with some heavye rain possitomorrow, very much like what we're seeing right now for those of you inma ssas. future weather 7:00 a. we're all dry. cloudiness out the a. evund lunchtime, still looking at dry conditions so can you head to thool or run an errand on your lunch break. once you get past

he is currently being held in a virginia state jail >>> the cityf manassas isil wa weekend. now organizers are eliminating . wavil laced with mat isr callanassas history weekend. the new event will include children's activities, spy game, a scavenger hunting canon demonstrations but not the c w o ventro reenactments >> it' a look at our military history through the ages. we'l have stuff through thear revolution war, world war i, wo ad war ii, veterre coming out. it's a first time event for us and we're excited to share this with the public. >> the city's civil war weekend attracted about 200 people each year. organizers hope new history success.will have the same it scheduled august 24th through theh >>> virginia senators mark warner and tim kane are on a mission to preserve six historic battlefields in virginia listed genetionhtoric sites fornocedore this muggy evening. 84 degrees out thereht rigw. no for our >> we're joined right now by caitlin roth. caitlin, what's it look >> not so bad, actually. we haven'tai hadn all day in the district and inside the beltway but there'

in manassas, chopper 4 showing yo this problem. northbound prince william parkway at sudley drive. two tow trucks on this delay. you will see that headed out soon. beltway, no problems. looking good there. signal problem at smithsonian, blue, orange and silver lines affected. your travel lines, 270 no problems. the t of the beltway getting slow there. 490 and ot6h looking good. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. >>> there's a l of things about travel that can be stressful. your luggage shouldn't be one of them. >> there are a lot of bags available, which one is best? "consumer reports" reporter susan hogan >>> you're watching "news 4 today." >> welcome back. if you're takg a trip, y need the right luggage. >> what kind is best? susan hogan is working for you to find the best for your trip. >> it rollall the way around. >> enough space. >> zippers. >> reporter: your biggest decision, should yo get soft-sided or hard? hard-sided luggage can be durable and light. aluminum luggage is the most durable but a bit heavier. >>hey are also good for traveling witle fra items, which can crush more

many are waking up in about m to low 60s. 62, manassas. 67 in clinton.bout w tok outside, very comfortable. ehat's a big area of high pressure that can thank for the nice weather today. and tomorrow. the planner for thursday, 82 by lunch time this afternoon. very similar to yesterday. this weather pattern is going to break as we head into the ekend. chuck has a look at that. but melissa has a look at the roads. >> and rails. a signal problem on metro blue, orange, silver line, being affected. that means delays to reston, east vienna. >> 95 ,northbourince william parkway, still a delay this morning with the issue on the left side of the road. it involved three weeks. an earlier crash, one was spun around. it's on the shoulder, causing a little bit of a delay. 66 is looking good right now. no compliaaints now. >>> news into our newsroom about a deadly train accident. the two people hit by the csx train last night were women. this happened at 8:00 between gunner's lake and gunnes lake park the women still have not been identified and police ain try to figur

so far so good on 66 coming jfrom manassas,ust light volume.e story 270 looking good frederick into montgomery county. beltway looking goodbye new hampshire avenue. any questions at erin fox5 d.c.. t look at metro andhe rest of your roads anu we contie 5 ot up. >>♪ >> ♪ (birds chirping, a running brook,) ahh. the new deer park sparkling is made with real spring water. ♪ it's yodon'reshing and delicious, real fruit flavo and refreshing bubbles.s ♪ just what's refreshingly real. start the day with the chicken you love. get the feeling of chick-fil-a, for breakft. ♪ alcohol based mouthwash burns. and that could leave you wit.. burn face! but colgate total mouthwash is different. it kills 99% of germs without the rn of alcohol! kill germs without the burn.mo itry colgate totahwashwithout ttoday!of alcohol! >> ♪ ay on fox5 morning, breaking news. smoke filling the air in beijing ter a man sets off a small bomb outside the u.s. embassy. new detailsg in c overnigh >>> the storms have moved on and the rain is finally g but the water remains. a number o

thisns i manassas. just sou o 66, there's aas crh.m par at sudley manor drive in manassas. the crash has left all lanes blocked. we, of course, will letbo you knut any work aunro.lo weather. >>> welcome back to fox5 king this morning. he now says that russian president vladimir putinter rfie reversal. it's a 180 after some colntrsrove meeting with helsii. and the clearing -- declaringfme russia should be held accountable for "attacks on our democracy." house democrats say they'll follow suit. >>> new developments on a storyut of montgomery county. we've learned overnighthat two peop hit and killed freight train last night were women. they wer struck on a csx tracks near gring station road imantown around 8:00 p.m. investigators say the train operator saw those women on the tracks, he sounded the horn and applied the train's brakes but it was just too late. >>> for the first time we're hearing from the parents of the 10-year-old d.c. girl shot igand killed monht outside of her home i northeast. makiyahpoilson's mother ske during a vigi

right now frederick 83 and manassas 83 and very nice, low humidity, not atad afternoon all.ut. won't see any rain tay or tomorrow. saturday that starts to change, at least a little bitay saturds not a horrible day. satellite and radar together, not showing much in the way of cloud cover at all. take a look at this. here's the wider picture. here's the jet stream. way up here is a storm syste towards parts of minnesota and the jet stream dips all the way down to the south and then way out into the atlantic ocean, so this i the area that is beautiful. if you have friends on vacation now, boston, d.c. area and down towards raleigh and the outer banks, really a gre beach day all up and down the coast. temperature-wise, we're great into this area, too. into the 80s. new york, 81 right now with enty ofunshine. big difference though off towards the west. here's the heat.he 106 current temperature in dallas right now. 95 kansas city and 96 in denver. normally i'deelling you hot air is moving this way but i won't. reason why. bies area of high re is going to develop in the atlantic o

her brother dies at manassas, and her husband dies a month later at the battle of antietam. remarries. she and her children will run their ranch. she is doing better than most of the friends and neighbors after the war. she expanded their holdings and was doing quite well. she was able to sustain herself. last but not least is the woman by the name of felicia lockridge. she was a quiet enthusiast. she is not writing to the papers. she wouldn't have considered that appropriate for a woman of her standing to do. which is a very quiet enthusiastic supporter of her husband who will be a company commander. ind of develops an interest military history. she writes letters like could you send home some maps because i want to figure out and see what you are doing. after the war, she writes a lot of work poetry. publiclyt an outspoken supportive, but she will sustain herself and their two daughters. those are their two daughters -- don't look. i'm going to give it all away. those are their two daughters there, they are about one and four years old. their father leaves for work. i'm ed

in manassas, has a crash there. and eastbound 7 at potomac. it was blocking the crash and that is outf the way. no big problem iro aaron? >> melissa, thank you. >>> we're following news in northwest d.c., a massive fire has forced families out of their home. >> we go to nicole jacobs. what'sng goi on? >> reporter: well, you can see, they have put up caution tape now. they say this home is justsi ly not safe to go in. and that's why firefighters are waiting for it to get a little safer to go in and start investigating what started this fire. you can e the back porch, completely scorched. that's where they saw thele most amount of flames here. this video was tweeted f out by d.e this morning. they say the flames from that back porch spread to the second floor and aheic of the original home and spread to the neighboring home. a family of five was living in that home. we spoke with the weather of that home who worked to get his family out safely. >> for the most part, if everybuty got alive, that's okay. >> reporter: thatather says he heard scream

manassas, eastbound, a crash in the right lane this morning. district heights, an outbound issue. interloop before 66 might look a little slower as we get closer. >>> we have following the eaking news right now in finland. than an hour away. you're looki at the liv pictures here. we believe this is hcr at that's just touched down. we saw a russian flag on the side. we believe this is his airplane. he had been delayed this morning and is running a little behind schedule. this meeting with president trum is going to happen within eve next hour or so, we be you're seeing some of the image. he it sounded like president putin would sit down for a one-on-one summit. president trump's ajen to, syria, iran and ukraine. at a news econference, promised to press putin. >> i don't think you have a gee, i did it, i did it, you got me. there won't be a perry mason here. i don't think. but i will firmly ask the question. >> we will be following this developing story through the you can look for a live update from helsinki in our forecast. >>> neighbors had to be rescued after an fire at an apart

. >> a new pblem in manassas. water crews are on the scene. the's a detour. t northbound sudley after 66. that's a main route. a lane getting by the work zone there. inner and outer loop of the beltway,o problems on the beltway this morning. 95 in maryland, at 198, northbound and southbound, looking pretty good. that sunrise is looking pretty. >> thank you. >>> it's 5:32. following breaking news in d.c. a car slammed through a brick wall at a 7-eleven.e iver suffered some serious injuries. this happened in the 900 block of northeast. that's right at the maryland/d.c. line. >>> we have covere of terrible traffic tuesday. it is here ahead of the fourth of july travel day. things look good at the chesapeake bridge. but it will look different in a few hours. if you're going out of town, you want to hit the road sooner rather than later. justin finch has more on what to expect. >> reporter: good mornin it just sounds so ominous. terrible tuesday, it's when aaa says that millions of americans are trying to get to where ey're trying to go, at about the same time. th

his year the event is being called manassas history weekend.here's activity for kids, local veterans and civil war living history. everything will kick off august 24th. >> 9:13 your time on this saturday still ahead, big security changes at the national zoo. >> and here' a question f you. what is the coolest neighborhood in the d.c. area? national magazine says it has the swer. the swer. stayan w here's money for pizza. here's the wi-fi password, but, if you go online while the boys are online the internet can slow down and... they don't like it. you guys don't have fios? [mrs. jennings] oh-no. but it's a 100% fiber-optic network with ridiculous speeds. you could have, like, a hundred devices online at once. interested, talk later. bye boys! don't even think about going online. woah... i can't work like this. the 100% fiber-optic network means more speed for more devices at once. so get a fios triple play with a 2-year agreement, and choose a free samsung chromebook 3 or credit towards other samsung tech. >>> welcome back. this morning a former

. >>> manassas is getting help from goats to clear out a historic park. chopper 4 shows t animals at the national battlefield park. they're testing goats as a for of vegetation control. if it works in this one area, the park will consir using goats in other places. this method is a sustainable, s economic ande alternative to mowing or p herbicides t.k saw heavy fighting during the second battle of manassas during the civil war. >> i wonder if that willon wor our yards. >> they're being well fed after all this rain we've ichad. >>>res are one of the keys to recording history. ve>> in our own li pictures tell the stories of our families and what we care anti. leon harris is here to introduce one organization encouraging young people to use thistoedium ell their story. > the results have been phenomenal. for 14 years, critical exposure has been getting young people involved in advocacy through photography. this group believes young people fve some the most powerful stories to tell and pictures are the most impactful and empowering. critical exposure, this we

rice true value in manassas nailed it. alnsumer checkbook gave them top marks for quity and price. however, d.c. area storesal rev home hile big chains like depot and lowe's typically charge 20% less, the smaller independent hardware stores came out on top for customer service, especially looking for that one-on-one advice for larger projects. >> we d find, though, that one way you can save at these independents is if you hav a really big project, ask for a contractor's discount or a volume discount. some offer 10% off if they know y're going to spend a l in that visit or over the course of a month. hat's one way to get your prices back down to kind of where the big box stores are. >> when it came to refunds, checkbo found that most stores haveeasonable return licies. word of advice, though. be sure to ask if they accept returns. even on items that may be out of their original packaging. susan gan, news 4. >> thank you. >>> it is 4:26 now. you may needme improvement help today. streets already flooded. now more rain is on the way. chuck, if you're tracking storm team 4 weather aler

when it's about 7 it's really hot and 77 in manassas.et oppressiv heat indices. feeling about 111 in manassas ansb lg and gaithersburg. one. hottest days by far this year, and torrow will fee very similar during the afternoon and early evening hours. that's why tomorrow you can see here on your graphic is another storm team 4 weather alert day with dangerous heat in the forecast. again, everyone on tuesday will be under a heat advisory starting ant noon 8:00 p.m. that high of 95 feels more like 105 dur g the afternoonhours, and maybe a few isolated thunderstorms west of i-to rrow afternoon. very similar to today, but you can see the ratou ook through saturday. it isn't looking all that way: tomorrow and wednesday most of us are dry. most areas east of 95 say dry on thursday. not the case on friday. a high likelihood that everyngdy is dea with rain and storms on friday and a small chance for lingerings thundershowut there start morning, but saturday and sunday are overall looking fantastic here andt theeaches as well. here's the beach for

also i'm tracking this cell that just popped upround manassas and the thunderstorms out to the west arezzling out. the best chance for rain tonight is going to be ifth you're n of washington. here in the district down through southern maryland, most ofs will be mainly dry and 90 degrees right now. scattered thunderstorms until about 7:00, 8:00 p.m. and mostly otoudy at 9:00 and 84 degrees. 11:00 p.m. all that comfortable. temperatures feeling like 858 degrees, and out there tomorrow it's not ashout. we will have some rain and storms at times and w have dry times as well. >> that's right. we have to dance around the gardening if you have a plans to be in the garden. tomorrow morning a lot of clouds iout there, andyou don't have rain in your area, maybe you'll be able to sneak out and get some gardening done early, upper 70s and mid-morning and early afternoon. that's going to be our best chancewe for s and storms moving through the area. highs tomorrow wmil be in the to upper 80s and still relatively warm, a bit muggy and not until late in the evening once we start to see some clearing t

away for it is 74 in washington. 69 dulles and manassas. we have ypatch fog. this morning, the kids are heading out to summer today is a day when they can go outside for once. it will be a hot and humid one. we'll look at when the rain chances return. melissa is on the road. >> i'm sure the camp counselors are grateful for today. looksing at inorthwest. th the video we were showing you with the water gushing down the street. broad bnch road near 27th. the flooding has subsided but we have a downed tree, stopping any traffic from getting through. georgetown pike between bellview and towlston road here. the ground is so soft because of all of the saturation. 66 and 95, no problem there's. the rest of looking good.is >>> 4:31 right now. more on our road conditions. look at this scene on west willard road. the driver of that suv drove to the awwater. e s several cars do this turnaround. thankfully no one decided to go all the way through. >>> it was a close call for folks in ellicott city, maryland. people warned people near main street to move to higher groedd. >

we are heading for 96 re in town today. 97 dulles, 97 manassas, 96 for quantico, 97 towards fredericksburghean't escape teat and the humidity today and because of that kind of up and down w the eastern seabe have heat advisories in effect. start at noon, going to 8:00. if you have touteside sunscreen and lots of water. hey, erin. >> good advice mike thoma 4:37. right now roads are quiet. seventeent street northeast at gail street the's a malfunctioning traffic light. treat though you would a stop sign. look at b the 14th streetridge wide opened. all area bridges are quiet. we are tracking a little bit of police activity in the strict 13th street southbound between farragut street it's blocking all lanes it's such light volume it's not calling any big delays. crash free in mar iand. more to comen a few. erin fox5 d.c. if you have any questions. >> for today's zip trip we'read he down 95 to woodbridge. tony holly tucker they'll be there livetarting at 6:00 a.m. come out to woodbridge. we wouldove to haveou join the team. >> go to fox5.c./contests top enter for your chance to win awo year lease

thgoing to lead to issues and that's what we've been still have flash flood warnings for manassas fairfaxlouden and prince william. andut east and montgomery county most of those going toig ht at least. continue to watch that. the radar itself, here l is tittle bit of good news at ast. the heaviest of the rain continues to lift off to the north. zoom on this area. yocan see pretty hefty rain we have to get through, especially central an northern maryland before all is said and done.ct in , some of the heaviest rain from baltimore just to the westhrough gaithersburg rockville backleesrg. t wehe t're going to continue toa and that could increase that re flash flood th out portions of maryland now as we head through the resth of overnight period. unfortunely we're not d just ye more rain over the next few days talk about that in the 7-d forecast. >> "fox5" evan lambert live in fairfax county for us whereea they'reling with serious flooding in some areas. evan.. we porter: corey right now were on arlington terrace, near cameron run southf 4956789 closed.ad behind me here is tis auk see it is

this affects herndon, sterling, the poolesville area, manassas, centerville, look what's happening right now right downtown. you see that rain happening right oolr the cap building right now. right over -- right over -- right over the mall as well. we're going to continue to watch this incredibly heavy rain. some o that rain around the clarksburg area right now. storm team 4 up around the afternoon, up around 270 shows you where some of the rain is. that area seeing very heavy rain, too, to the south of where we are in the clarksburg area. we'll continue to monitor this all afternoon. anythi else pops up, guys, we've got it for you. help re asking if your with our weather coverage. if you see any weather damage or flooding and can safely take a video, we would love to see that. our nbc r to download washington app as well. you will have doug's forecast in the palm of your hand. >>> we've got some new video this evening of chaos inside a metro station. a man wanted in a shooting jumped off the platform t get away from police. this all happening at the gallery place metro station. officers

reflecting the niceir mass overheadre 88es in washington, 85ba imore, 87 in annalis, 83 dulles, and 84 in manassasskies for miles, high presoverhead, there's the last of that frontal system way offshore that came through yesterday with acl few ds, comfortable tonight, just like this morning, especial north and west you starteaoff, feels r nice with the temperatures in up across the mo8inun itas,n 6 n copy today,ry sunshine, d air mass, low humidity 89 should be the high in washington. over the weekend, big difference, we'll see the high pressure system move get more c off tilloast rdtusa wclhere couldhich ou pdsrobably fa svonr areas closer to the beaches, but then, an upperget showers anck sd thunderstorms o sunday, i think the tdays, suoeayet dteoosr l one. if you have outdoor plans, it's not a weutsh-o, rains, unstled forecast, b showers and storms onsaturday, and sunday, may interrupt those plans, accweather seven-d forecast, mostly sunny 89 hu wthirmaooks beauful, 88th t will be sticky but won't be overly hot hewi tud c tlohundserstorms coming through saturday and sunday. and we stay unsettle

not 93 in dc.er atures in low 80's in dc, 83 in liannapo 79 ine, balt 77 in gaithersburg, 76 in manassasu factor in the humidityt and just makes it feel t allt much worse, 79 low tonight. warm and muggy, could be a couple spots that really just don't drop below that 80 degree mark for tonight, heat advisory in effect and as we head to tomorrow from noon to 8in0, limit anyd of outdoo activities if you can during that stretch of time. here's a look at ther,planne starting off t morning low 80's, noon, 93, by 4:00, 98, how long the worst of it will last and what the cool-down looks like coming up in the seven-day forecast just a bit. >>> you said it we're in the midst of this major summer heat wave, temperatures soaring into triplenigits some areas. that intense heat is special daerous to younghildren and pets, fox 5 melissa howell has more on what parents and petdo owners should o keep their loved ones safe when thesete eratures rise. >>'r whene in your car, you might n think about how quickly your car can hea off, when you turns ac off and you get out and shut the door but t there's an ap

temperaturewise, mostly the 70s this morning.80 downtown. 68 in manassas. another hot one. but 5 degrees cooler than yesterday. 91 today, 88 morrow. better chance of a shower tomorrow by the bay. not much of a rain threat around here. ne threat on sunday, monday tuesday next week. a lot of hot and humid weather in the next couple of ten days. let's go to melissa mollet and see how traffic is doing. >> hi chuck. the beltway finally cleared. everything is gone. earlier roadwork. you don't have to worry about that this morning. and green. in the district,th souund 295 after suitland parkway. left lane is getting by zone there. ust kind of keep an eye out if you're headed that way. ft. washington, 210 there. farmington, northbound and southbound. indian head highway. paving in each direction maryland, we're looking good from 32 to the beltway. on time.es 71 m per hour. going quickly. it takes about ten minutes. >>> here'se at live desk. breaking news out of california. one of l.a.'s iconic closed because of a brushfire. this started yesterday in griffith pa. it prompted an evac

we have some very comfortable temperatures in our suburb 61 in frederick, 66 in manassas. gorgeous day to exercise. just like yesterday. 7:00 this morning. get outside, ver pleasant, 72 by noon. 83 by the afternoon. stil dry and mostly sunny with temperatures in the upper 80's. this area of high pressure is t going keep us dry for only today. it's going to move away, as we go into the weekend, and take a look at that down to the south. this is an organizing area of low pressure pulling in moisture from the gulfo of mex riding up the eastern seaboard. and it's going to impact the weekend forecast. here's future weather. if you have friday night plans, we're still going to be dry. then for hetomorrow, computer model is kind of sped up on the timing here, so, saturd 11:00, we could very well already have showers moving in. that low moves away and for sunday, we look to be d the if first half of the day. second half sunday we d rain in the forecast. so we're going to keep that rain chance around later this week and also and even into n t tomorrow, in the morning we unchtimee d

concerns, just a few clouds this afternoon. 88 degrees your daytime high. 84 for gaithersburg, 85 manassasuantico later triay. weekend bs bigger concerns area of low pressure come up the coast. models have gotten stronger with it and they've also brought it little closer tocl the coastline, e enough that we could do som a round here. i'll show you futurecast in just a second. sunday things stay unsettled, wh we call an upper level low dips down to the midwe t and sits there for next several days which will keep things rather unsettled. let's skip aheadd o saturday. scatowers in the morning hours. and then there you go into the afternoon, showing wavewa after of kind of heavy rain coming up. across, ryland as well.ia andma central could be, and this is a could, this seems extreme to me, model are showing upwards of 5-e in d.c., 4.6 gaithersburg, again i think some of these numbers are extreme. just gives you an idea of how wet some of the models have gone with us. so, ifdoou have o plans on saturday keoo that in mind. quick at the seven-day because even beyond the weekend -- first off satur

that southerly wind keeping things warm andmi 83 in annapolis. 72 towards manassas. tomorrow morning you're going to notice a very mild and warm and humid start. on the radar, nothing to we don't have any rain right now. but as we look towards the day tomorrow, you see the showers today? it wasn't a ton, but they came right through parts of northern virginia, pts of maryland helping to cool things down. back to the west, i'm watching this front right here. see a lot of cloud cover and showers and thunderstorms. irhind this, nothing. that's the that comes in our area during the day wednesday and thursday. but we'veet got to through the front first. that means a good chance of showers around thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. if you're going to be out and about on tuesday, 8:00 p.m. tomorrow, a few clouds but some sunshi during the day. that will help to get temperatures into the upper 80s to around 90. by noon we've got some cloud cover. notice where the shors are, back along i-81. watch how fast they move into the.c. metro area. by 2:00, frederick, leesburg. 4:00

in leesburg. 68 in manassas. 81 by the bay in annapolis. it's going to be another hot one to be outside. not quit a as hot yesterday. yesterday, 96 yesterday.r today clo to 90 for most areas. hour by hour, plenty of sunshine. things warming up. the high of 91 degrees. around about 5:00 this afternoon, a good noh, to northwesterly breeze. the humidity won't be too intolerable for today. that will creep up closer to the weekend. more on that in a few nutes. let go to melissa mollet who is cool as a cucumber. >> i would like to with go war up. i've got a heater under my desk all the time. the work zone blocking the right lane as well as the ramp there and also southbound gw parkway. right lane is getng by. that will -- inner loop after connecticut. left lanes getting by. lots of work zones this morning. in the district, southbound295 at suitland parkway. left lane

away for it is 74 in washington. 69 dulles and manassas. we have ypatch fog. this morning, the kids are heading out to summer today is a day when they can go outside for once. it will be a hot and humid one. we'll look at when the rain chances return. melissa is on the road. >> i'm sure the camp counselors are grateful for today. looksing at inorthwest. th the video we were showing you with the water gushing down the street.

where we have k50erweher, 72 in manassas. 15 degree temperature temperatures will continue to cool.ming down. you cann see r right now on the radar but there are a few showers to the north right here. this is a cold front coming down. you notice these are falling apart quickly. without daytime heating, the they're not able to stay together. can't rule out a shower around hagerstown or frederick. now as we look toward south and this is hurricane chris. it is a monster of a storm now. earlier thids morning, w of 70 miles an hour. now 105 milr an h going from a tropical storm to a hurricane. this is one -- thiis a visible picture in infrared. if i show you colored tops here, this is a little bit better picture showing you the heavy to thundes. anywhere you have red around the area, that's heavy thunderstormi ac. when it encircles the entire eye like here, that shows you you've got a big storm. this is a category 2 at 105 miles er hour. maybeat aory 3 by early tomorrow morning. official forecast from the centereeps it a category 2. looking like a 3 right now to me. moving to the northea

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talking about that in a second. 71 in gathersburg. 72 in manassas. one thing i'm worried about tonight, fog could be an issue tonight as we do wake up to areas of fog. heads up for that. areas of f tomorrow morning. 80 by noon. sun is back. thank goodness. chance of aer sh maybe an isolated that your. 92 on friday. 40% of a late evening could be on the strong side friday night. that oneum lowersity for the weekend. saturday looking great. sunday looking good, too. we have a better chance of showers on sunday. monday through friday this pattern sets back up. it's not going to have the same tropical characteristics but it will bring a lot of chances for rain and thunderstorms next week. not the same but something watch for sure. >> thank you. >> coming up the nats finally wake up i this is the xfinity "sportsdesk." >> this is what we've been waiting for. where have they been hiding? >> they probably want to know, the general manager wan to know. everybody want to know. for a while now as the losses piled up, we've heard davy mards say his team will tur

there's alady more rain towards locustdale and culpepper moving in toward warrenton and manassas. ple of raindrops ne leesburg as well. future weather going into the day today, again, not a big rain threat here early this morning. add ayt little dme heating into this, i think we'll bubble up quite a bit more rain later on in the day today. and ady for a wet commute rainy evening today as a front tries to push this rain out of here. our forecast model, again, the nature of this is hard to predict. another halfn inch to an inch or more. somebody might get 2 more inches of raintust ay. little chance to dry out nomorrow and friday. only isolated rhances over the weekend. after today, we have to have a little chance to dry out.un ortunately, this incredibly rainy pattern comes back next gek. jack taylor,d morning to you. >>> good morning, chuck. all right. 66 we're going to go westbound between delaplane and markham. good news. we havene a right letting by at the scene of a crash. overnight, they unfortunately had the lanes blocked. eastbound was never affected. the right lane is getti

at wood bridge, that lshl.to pu towards manassas. it's pockets of heavy rain.at this moisture train, all the way down south to florida. 77 is our tempe ture rightnow. it is speedy and feels like a sauna when you walk outside. occasional at tes through the morning and afternoon. and we'll talk about timing of the sunshine. we have some on that ten-day forecast. >> let's say good morning. we are seeing some pretty good delays northbound. here's the additional issue. t this morning, going to be quite slow as that's not coming through. the inexpress on the road line because of the shooting investigation at the metroti s this morning. >> you can see rolling along well thisin mo you have but one ramp on the right side to mess it up. all of this rain is causing serious flooding at anap louse. >> the city says dog street is going top. >> more closures continue to coming. >> a woman in virginia is dead after the ee crashed into her home. >> it cras omp eed on the secon floor. the woman was pinned under the tree and died. her husband managed to call 911. >>> frederick is

so after the first big battle of the war at manassas, virginia, they stopped using this on the battlefield. however, they kept it as the national flag for almost two more years. in the wake of the failure of this one on the battlefield, they came up with ear designs specifically for battlefield use. by may, 1863, however, they completely did away with this one and came up with this one to replace it. this is the second national flag of the confederacy. this was created by taking one of the battle flags, this square by itself was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia. they put this on a field of white. this became the second, the new national flag of the confederacy. it is sometimes called the stainless banner. also, no good for a battlefield. they kept it off the field but kept it as their national flag until march, 1865, very late in the war when they created a third national flag by essentially taking this flag but then putting a red bar down one side of that flag to take away a lot of that white. so that flag was the third national flag of the confederacy. this is the second

i mean you've got areas down towards manassas, culpeper up into frederick feeling triple digit heat. stick around for my forecast. we are looking at the storm chances for the all-star game. t> thank you. >>> back herehome, what appears to be a tragic accident. an elderly woman killed when her own car ran her over in a church parking lot. montgomery county police say kathleen howard pked at saint mark's united methodist church and when she got out this mornerg, we're told car rolled backwards and killed her. howard was 83 year old. >>> we have learned two young women died in a crash in reston today. we have this picture from the scene on fairfax county parkway near barren cameron avenue. fairfax county police say two cars were involved in this. they say one driver lost control about 2:00 in the morning and went off the road. police believe both speed and alcohol were factors in theh. cr two people are still in the hospital. >>> new details now about a stabbing in the district, and it was over a parking spot. ayd.c. police a group attacked two people trying to park near the busy 1th st

temperatures are warm. 76 degrees with the hu vdity feeliny muggy and sticky out there. 70 frederick. 69, manassashe kids are heading to summer camp, it will be a hot one. this morning, maybe bugra the bugs will be out today. 11:00 a.m., 88

volume than usual even though we've had a whole lot of crashes thisorning. 66s at speed through manassas sun glare.. grab your sh use caution. watch for visibilitylo problems. ing good in dale city on 95. earlier crash i stafford cleared. and metro is on time. y back to. >> all right, erin thanks very much. i time right nows 6:19. a tragic fourth of july celebration in illinois. men dead and five others hurt including a pregnant woman when a t lree branch fell on them during a fireworks show. the tree estimated to be more y than 100rs old. two men, a 61-year-old and a 72-year-old both died from their injuries. the pregnant woman who was injured was near full term at was taken to the hospital.nd she the good news there, both mother and chi arekay. >> police looking for the people who carjacked d.c. council chair phil mendelsohn's girlfriend. this happened yesterday morning in tlv 1200 block of peania avenue in southeast. the victim putting gas in her car when two people drove up. one took offotnhe t hooker off , if you know anythingou're asked to call pheice. >> stillad this morning, in t

on the low side ofng thi by julyds sta. 88 degrees this afternoon washington, 86 warnings 85 f m manassassun would get those temperatures a little higher. if you have outdo plans on saturday keep an eye on this. brand newf run o our weather model here.he 8:00 in morning, scattered showers mostly through virgint . look how iilds into a steady rain into the afternoon. eryour 1 o'clock houre in d.c. looks a little sgy. en that just sort of contin there's a storm system coming up the coastline here that's going to be throwing rain back inecurtion. into the evening hours, could still be som o bandsf heavy rain. so, agai right now saturday is not looking too great for us here in d.c. and parts ofn our reg could get a lot of rain out ofhis. now, if you saw us last hour, it was putting down 5-inches of rain here i here d.c. which d a little extreme. it's come down. inches for fredericksburg, almost thr for culpeper. there's no telling exactly who isoing to get these heavier amounts. thd is going to shift a over the next 24 hours here in d.c. t just be aware that at least somewhere there's a poten

you see that rai falling in manassas. southbound route 1.gfield northbound, edgebrook drive. lots of spots where you're going to see this. a crash reportedhi there morning, as we widen out. erryrrh merrifield has a proble, too. the radar showing you where that rain is falling in morning. looking at the top of the beltway, right side blocked by the crash there. travel times now. 270 isn't horrible, but it will take 9 minutes, germantown to the spur.e allow s extra time. wait if you possibly can. 66 northboundnd 95 is going to take you 25 minutes. listen to wtop 103.5 f.m. when you pop in your car. >>> here's four things to wekno. 're just hours away from the next megamillions drawing. theot jackp has jumped to $5.5 million. the drawis i tonight at 11:00. >>> a man wa strabbed to death at the metro heights station. the station is open for riders this morn you can look for updates on the nbc washington app. >>> deadly twin wildfires are ripping through athens, greece. people are trying to evacuate. look for the latest on "today." >>> we've got

only the confederate veterans would extend them an invitation to come down on the anniversary of manassas. recently illuminated and a little bit later that fall and september they invite the men up to page county for a joint reunion. these things do happen but they happen only occasionally. that's why there is so much press about them. most of the time that are in spending time with their own ilk. the famed reunion of the ticket at gettysburg in 1887 almost didn't happen. some virginians openly question the loyalty of their brethren who agreed to go to pennsylvania. and reports that the confederates wanted to place a memorial behind union lines created an immense outpouring of reaction from northerners. the ohio governor threatened to use an ohio national guard to prevent such sacrilege. this reunion did happen, but it wasn't as easy as many of the newspaper reports would have you believe. the following year, the 25th anniversary of the battle, many veterans were increasingly angry that all the focus of gettysburg was on picket and these virginians. gettysburg was the army's first clear v

people in the building so when i went and looked through it some of those stories i kept watching the manassas video the last rally of barack obama and then i would just re-watch watch the video and say do you remember this? like it was two weeks ago. [laughter] >> my farewell gift from obama at the white house was a video he put together of all the photos of our time in the white house. >> we all got that. [laughter] just kidding. >> you are in some of them. but i looked at that album to think about the book. to say we did this and it was special. it is all you could hope for in politics to go to work for someone you deeply believe in who turns out to be good and decent into it with a group of people that are smart and loyal and fun and more family than friends and to take that journey all the way as we are so blessed we got to do it. >> we are blessed. i will not ruin this for you but this is what i remember and there is a chance the hip-hop artists who had known obama most of his life put it back into the interview his dad was the state director in the senate and chant said he is a good man

on what this deal is and to some of this in manassas times as well as in all of our parties including my own hands what's been done is an honest attempt to make sure that we do make it clear that we will not tolerate anti semitism any form these were the front pages on thursday of the three biggest jewish newspapers in the u.k. joint editorials warning that a korban government would pose an existential threat to jewish life in the u.k. and that came in on so to a decision by party officials not to include in its code of conduct the full internationally recognised definition of anti semitism they argue its provisions might rule out any legitimate criticism of israel but say some party members this is not really a story about anti semitism is there a problem of anti-semitism in the labor party yes with half a million people who are not free of anti seen it is that the main problem confronting the labor party you know is labor party the main place frankly semitism no so why this intense focus on anti semitism the labor party or a couple of reasons one is supporters of israel don't want p

molette green is suiting up at the special freshman firefighter camp in manassas. >> i love it. i love it. hold this? this is a hose line. juliana i right behinme. it takes team work to make this happen. okay. i'm going to turn it off. right, kevin? all right. julianna, you've got, this and everybody else. earlier, we talked about how you have to suit up in one minute. you te taking themough the drills. >> right. >> so these risingigfreshman hh schoolers? >> certified in cpr, ems. they got to do bunch of fun things yesterday. cpr and ems are a big part of ourjob. are ems calls. these kids learn how to get into that school and care of kids that they run across that may be having medical emergency. >> i love that about this. these are high school freshmen. they get to come back next year when they're sophomores and take a much more advanced camp training at the firehouse? >> we advance them up a little bit more. they get to take out a flame fire, cut up a car, repel. they stay with me throughout their high school career. >> that's why t four things these young people take away fro

if you get to manassas, we're looking at near a quarter mile visibility.patchy fog as you are making your way out the door. normally, nice and dry. the big area o rain has moved offshore. today will be better than it has been. mid-80s by lunchtime. utings will heat up around here. we'll talk a what you can expect as we head into your weekend coming up. let's talk to melissa. >> northbound g.w. parkway after spout run. if you have to take g.w.arkway this morning, you're going to have to allow extra time. there's no great alternate. hopefully this will be done soon. >> inner loop and l outerp ooking slow up top, in a typical spot here this morning. broad branch road near 27th street. rain blocked there. trees and wires down northbound indian head highway, the right side is blocked by the crash. >>> we have a liv a look a trouble spot in alexandria this morning. take a looke' here. thsome damaged wires here and tree debris, covering russell road and east windsor avenue. the street there remains osed. news 4's justin finch will be back with a live report in 15

manassas at rose drive. crash there.p inner l and outer loop of the beltway, rolling along nicely p here. we do have a crash reported there, as well this mornin we widen out and look at waldorf, northbound. and zooming back in here, you can see, ouound new york avenue, after the left lane gets by the work zone. travel times, all pretty good. >> thank u, melissa. >>> d.c. united fans your stadium is here. today, they will cut the ribbon on audi field. the 20,0-seat stadium is expected to bring in 1 million annual newit vs per year and $1.6 billion in economic activity. the first game at audi field is set f july 14th. >>> and -- ll new this morning, that is daredel and annapolis trnative, is pastrana, making history with three death-defying jumps in las vegas. cars,ped over 52 crushed 16 buses and a fountain at caesar's palace. his jumps were a contribute to evel knievel who made the jps ago.t 52 years he cleared them a 124 feet, which is 50 feet longer than knievel's ju. >> but he is an 11-time x-game gold me

you see those swowns after manassas inbound. is >> thanks, mel.th the chicken you love. get the feeling of chick-fil-a, for breakfast. ♪ >>> good morning, everybody. it's going to be argument great day to outside. low humidity, plenty of sunshine a afternoon highs, mid to upr ai 80s. it does lead to a pretty high chance for some rain over the weekend. not a total washout both days, but you need to bexi fe with your outdoor plans. >> flexible is the word of the day. get then lapatp.es t >>> it's >>> it's thursday, iis july 19th. it's a beautiful day on the plaza. in our neck of the woods. obviously we were just talking about the open championship. that was america's justin thos teeing off just a few short moments ago. >> right down the middle. >> a reminder you can catch live coverage of the que t for historic claret judge on the golf channel todaynd tomorrow. wie kn we know what carson is doing. >> kevin kisner has the early lead. you know where i'm going to be the next few days. >> would you all like a crowd moment? wait a moment. i've got ada bi