megan mcgrath was just telling us about. all traffic being pushedn to westbound 66. you can get past that. uter loop express lanes are closed and pushed to westbound 66. initially you were able to get by in the outer loop express lanes but not the ramp is osed. ies atnot know about inj this point. 95 northbound and southbound, no major issues right now.e 270 looking pretty good from 70 to 66 miles per hour gets you there in 27 minutes. >>> a little more than 36 hours after breaking hisose during unting practice, max scherzer was back on the mound last night supporting a black eye but he threw ten strikeouts in the game. 88 double digit strikeout game of his career. nats went on to beat the maillies. >> x scherzer, there you go. >>> here isor one f peanut fans. planter's peanuts has released a limited edition basketball sneaker a called the crunch force one. >> stop it! >> combination of yellow, blue, and black there. theyeature mr. peanut logo. if you're interested you have until tomorrow to buy the sneakers and run a salty $170. >> what? >> good luck with that! >> w

news4's megan mcgrath is live now at the scene with the latest.morning. >> reponger: well, good morni i am standing in the lohman plaza parking lot. i'll step out of the way here. that is t randolph roadt you see behind me there. and the white car there, the up, hback with the trunk that is the suspect vehicle that the sed in the robbery of gun store here in rockville. now you can see police still on the ene. we are told that one of the suspects was found dead inside the vehicle. four other suspects bailed, ran from the scene, and they are still on the loose.o thece using k-9 units, other patrol officers on foot searching the neighborhood around the location where, parklawn, dolph and the area looking for the four suspects who re still on the loose. this began at around 2:30 this morning. look at the video here. it began to unfold with robbery at the united gun store on randolph road. that'sabout i'd say 2.5, 3 blocks from thisec sdary location here. around 2:30, that's when police became aware that there was some sort of a robbery in progress the

back to you. >> meghan mcgrath. thank you. >>> 5:03 now. this we're taking a look at of the major upsets in in arlington first, the it was a tight race decided by ray morreau lost to steve descan we are going to defend the most common of virginia but in halle he won with about 500 votes. primar you remember morsi made worked as his reptionist they are now married. he served time in jail four deal. open the nbc washington app and more details about the deadly the faa said the pilot who was there less than three miles the clouds on monday morning you can see the video from the crash. here's jeff guzetti. >> the weather conditions were involv a confusion that your is up and which way is down and instru invest say there is no b requir to on the chopper. you hear more coming up on od students in southeast classr someon broke in on sunday and worker even needed to war today students will be back in a funeral procession will take olling heavie than normal traffic is he was palyzed from the waist poce say heied as a result >>> new this morning, we

megan mcgrath. we'll check back in a bit. thanks. >>> still ahead, those electric scooters are popping up everywher i'm seeingem. >> if you're thinking about taking a spin, there's something to keep in mind before you hop on. >>> good morning, everyone, today at 5:00, you'll meet a young woman who's battling cancer after doctors found a tumor the size of a baseball in her brain. >> it was pushing like in -- into my brain. >> because of the location of the chairman made it too difficult for surgery, doctors decided to use a revolutionary therapy to treat her cancer. it uses less radiation and fortunateliy gives her years -- potentially gives her years, not months to live. months to live. see the rest of my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean!um cascade plat cake in the conference room! showing 'em you're ready to be your own boss. that's the beauty of y

. >> megan mcgrath is live on the scene with the latest.is what oing on now? >> reporter: we have seen a stttle bit of an improvement here within la few minutes. they have been able to reopen the express lanes. you can see the traffic going by here. they are traveling in the express lane. that is all that has reopened at this particular time. the l outerop is completely shut down at westbound 66. they have maneuvered cones and moved all of the response crews off to the right-hand side of the road. so they are o trying ton those two left lanes and we are expecting that to happen any time now. but it just hasn't happened yet. for the time being, all of the lanes on the outer loop still shut down because of this tractor-trailer accident. take a look at the video. tracr-trailer went over on its side on the right-hand side of the road there. it then burstnto flames. what they are waiting on rightis now ne of those big wreckers to come to right that truck so they can haul it out of the way. they still have work to do. hope here is that at least minimally they will g

megan mcgrath,. thank you >>> up next, what would you do if you found a snake in your ? yard i'd move, probably. >> i don't go out in the yard! >> the woman you're about to meet didn't think twice when she found a cobra in her garden! >> it was just kind of looking around at me like what you doing, lady? i thought i'm going to have to kill you, pal. he cobras are not native to mid-atlantic and why the animal control folks think that one was hanging around there. >> if you're up there early wth us, you may be a morning person. a new report says if you get up ea you are less likely to develop a certain illness. >>> perfect g-away weather if you're heading to the eastern shore for the weekend. mid-90s with offshore wind at the beaches tomorrow. >>> that is a cobra! >> a pennsylvania grandmother says sheutwas just looking for the kids when she stopped and killed a venomous cobra!e shapped a few pictures of the snake before the execution this week. the 73-year-old woman was not a bit afraid when she saw the snake. >> i nudged its tail. he stopped. he raised his hood. athe tur

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, thank you. >>> 6:0.e's your morning business report. >> reporter: good morning, i'm r ahel sanders. there will be a vote to block reon robo calls. the carriers would not have to make call-blocking thedefault, and they could charge customers for the service as they do for r callei.d. and e otherras. robo calls have exploded in the u.., risingo about $5 million a month or an average of 14 calls per person. with your morning rning, i'm rahel solomon. >>> goomorning, everyone. your dog-walking forecast forecast, here's a few showers to be dealt with early, another chance for thundershowers later daththy. blind to t told dog who needs a special home. go to humanerescuealliance.org to find out more. >>> chopper 4 headed to this problem. sound likehe middle of the road blocked. dyre coming up. >>> and in norm france, president trump with the first lady and several veterans of the allied invasion on the beaches of norm >>> back now. and right to live pictures from normandy, france, as the ceremonies for the comm

this is where megan mcgrath is for us this morning.n northwest, pennsylvania avenue between 7th and 10th, totally shut down because of police activity.et 9th st also closed between d street and constitution avenue. they will not reopen until we have some daylight and they really look at things and see if they can wrap this investigation up. g it'sng to be some time befo that all reopens. eastbou 66 near nutley, that has finally cleared oute of th way. eastbound and westbound on 66. nolooking quite clear inner loop, outer loop of the b tway, no problems. earlier roadwork is gone. southbound on 270, a little slow southbound just after 70. en 58 miles per hour down to the spur gets you there in 31 minutes. aaron? i'll see you later. she's gone. it's a dangerous world. [ screaming ] [ grunting ] woo hoo! [ screaming ] pops are your friends gonna die? pickles don't be so dramatic. but yes probably. there they are. aww! we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. snail mail

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, thank you. >>> morei breakng news out of a th philadelphia. massive gorefinery fire there. we have video of that.fire look at the flames there. this is at the philadelphia energy solutions refinery. >> our sister stationy in phil is reporting this standard around 4:00 this morning and homes as far away as south jersey were rocked by a series of explosions at this plant. we don't know what is burning at this point. we know the wind is blowing a lot of that smoke into other parts of the city and south jersey as we said. no word on injuries. >>> news concerning escalating tensions in the persian gulf. "the new york times" is reporting that presint trump approved a military strike against iran but then abruptly called it off. that strike would hte been in reiation for the downing of an than unmanild u.s. surnce drone yesterday. the times is citing administration officials based in on the decision. iran insted the dne violated iranian air space. dwashington did say therone was aiying over international waters and the presidenthe believes the situat

. >> reporter: terry mcgrath offered them the in-law unit in his house. his kids had grown-up. relatives had lived there before, an intern had, too. so he wrote the piedmont police chief an e-mail. >> he let me know he was opening his home to some folks. >> reporter: so when the 911 calls started coming in, the chief had already counseled his officers. >> we want to get what is somebody doing that necessitates us getting involved. >> reporter: and if it had been white people in that house he would have responded the same way? >> yes, yes. >> piedmont is 74. >> announcer: white, 18% asian, less than 2% black. you have two black people sitting on the steps. you have homeowners looking out the window. that is unheard of. >> reporter: they didn't call the police on your other tenants. >> i got a call, 9:30 at night on my cell phone. couple minutes into it, i realized when she mentioned the word situation she was referencing marie and greg. and i said what situation? are they vandalizing cars? are they burglarizing homes? i just said this is one of the most offensive conversations i

news4 megan mcgrath joins us live from police headquarters with the latest on this.. >> reporter: good morning. this began with a shooting outside of an apartment complex in northeast washington. one of the bullets that was fired went into a nearby apartment and struck a woman. a taook at the video here. this happened at about 11:30 last nigt. the woman was bid when that bullet came through the window and grazed her in thehe d. now this happened atn a apartment complex at chaplain park apartments outside of 44th and benning road in northeast. police could be seen processing evidence last night pregnant down a number of evidence marke in the street outside of the building. while it was a close call, the woman is going to be okay and she is expected to make a full recovery. she was graed in the head. a close call here and scarn situatr her. as for the shooting that happened outside of the apartment building, at this point, no arrests have been made and there is no informati on look out for the suspects either. back to you. >> megan mcgrath, thank you. >>> tonight, a vi

melissa just told us, a fiery crash overnight has shut down the outer loop near 6.i-6 >> news4 megan mcgrath is live on the sne with the latest. good morning. >> reportergood morning. for the time being, the outer loop completely closed down both the main lanes and the express lanes. however, the last fumew minutes ng cones crews are put down along that center line the. ee were told by state police that they wre going to try and open up two lanes here on the t outer loopat they wanted to be able to letet traffic g through the area. it looks ke they are starting to putonhose c in place so maybe time soon they will be able to doat thut has not happened yet. at the momentverything is shut down at the outer loop side and force you to 66 we have. th was an early morning accident involving a tractor-trailer carrying ice cream. tractorrailer burst into flames following that accident. we do not have confirmation on the extent of injuries a still trying to get that iormation. you can see the big police e presence on th scene as they c reconthe document scene. we are hopingpanes will oen up soon o the

megan mcgrath, news4. >> ibuad a sun on the top of my feet because i've forgotten even though i slathered everywhere else. >> you skipped your feet? >> yes, i don't remember. i think i was at a basketball or something and forgot my feet were exposed. >>> ahead, could the fitness tracker you use to improve your health be having an adverse effect on you? some say yes. >>> pride flag flap. what had to be removed to make room for a rainbow flag in a county that did not sit well with everyone. >>> lauryn ricketts? >> we're looking at more summertime temperatures and sky conditions today. slather on the sunscreen and on those feet. no rain today or tomorrow, but we have rain on thursday. we may have to bring it back before the weekendl s over. wlk about timing comintag >>> good morning, everyone. 4:30. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. alet's check the forecastnd commute. melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. >> we'll start, though, with tt lauryn rickes in for c wck bellith a look outside. warm out there. >> not bad. the lumt humidityin is lowerg ae kpluf clouds moving o

back to you guys. >> megan mcgrath live inhw not washington. megan, thank you. >>> do see a lot of those scooters zipping around. >> still maheador staff shakeups in the west wing. we have the details who is leaving and who is placing them. >>> plus the d.c. region has its fair share of great restaurants. and eun, you know a lot of them. >> definitely not been tohis one. >> right. eat is the best place to in the whole world? this morning we know. we'll tell you when we come back on news 4 today. our time 5:37. >> announcer: you're watching "news 4 today." >>> this morning, san francisco is now the first.s. city to ban the sale of e cigarettes at least until the products receive a full fda approval. critics of the ban say it will hurt tyretailers but ci leaders say the ban will helpot prt kids. >> and for the first time ever the u.s.iv prevent services task force will add e cigarettes to its ist of tobaccoproduct. the task force is urging doctors to talk to their youngere patis about the health dangers of e cigarettes. >>> okay. now to our favor

maryla says she is stepping wn do >> it an unexpected move that has a lot of people resign meghan mcgrath with more on the issue. meghan good morning. in a written statement mayor tonga turner does not give a reason her resignation. she talks about her excitement for what the future holds, but and a her resignation came as a surpri to many. now a spokesperson becaus of negative incidents but she, rather, wants to >> there have been some things that have happened during her shdi talk aboutat the town meetin night. there have been some incidents those were not incidents that had anything to do with her resign >> rep mayor turner us was ng for economic growth. she also wanted to expand the town limits. things not necessarily popular her resignation, next friday. ma or upsets from the virginia theo stamos was defeated. in fairfax county, commonwealt stedescano. jeff mckay won the democratic primar >> we are going to do in a collaborative way, we will americ incumb he served time in jail as part you can open the nbc washington thefaa said the pilot who was killed was notga ley allowed to flee

megan mcgrath is live with more from the woman's mother.me an? >> it was a very scary close call for a young wom in northeast. she was at home, asleep in her bed, when a stray bullet from a confrontation that was happening out in the neighborhood went into her bedroom and grazed her he head. you can see the hole in the frame of the window, the bullet traveling inside the second floor bedroom. on the other side of that window, a young woman asleep in her bed was grazed on the head. her mother did not want to be ahown on camera, but she was salinle soepout. >> she say mom, i'mhit, i'm hit. ran into the room and got the rag, put it on her head. >> reporter: the woman is going eka oy. townhome, one went through a patch of siding and into a refrigerator in the kitchen. another to thewood fence where it damaged the casing of the gas line. >> very frightened. ididn't know how bad she was hit. i didn't know how bad. you just see blood everywhere. >> she uld have been killed? >> she could have.>> it's an example of street violence impacting those who live

welcome to the keene embassy my name's ian mcgrath. today when you have passed the interview you have had your case referred to us by the u.n.h.c.r. you guys are going to be going to regina. road just a good question regina is the capital of the provinces the statue on which is located in the middle of canada. beautiful stars when you arrive it will be spring time so you'll see flowers and animals good. beautiful start for me you can see for miles you'll be able to receive treatment for your eye i notice that you have difficulty in the bright light will definitely be able to see a doctor in canada. everyone has access to a physician. sauce so. if you're like. me and. it was i will last 11 on. the last time we traveled we were escaping the bombs in syria. but. after all they cared about was my high school certificate it was my only chance to get to university where you could deal with the rest of it. it was hard not to think about our lives back in syria in these last moments. as you look. at the career and the regular at the get at the

>>men mcgrath, thank you. you heard him. the biggest fireworks display that he has ever seen. >> ever. >>p next, what would you do if you found a snake in your yard? >>ar that is sc the woman you're about to meet didn't think twice when she found a cobra ier h garden. >> it just looked at me like what are you doing, lady? i said, i'm going to have to kill you, pal. >> cobras a not native to the area so we will tell you what happened after the break. >>> if you're up early with us, you mayor be a mning person. a new report says you less likely to develop a certainil ness if you get up early. >>> time to plan your get-away to the eastern shore.he nice day at tbeaches today and sizzling hot at the beaches tomorrow in the 90s. most likely day to be rained on this weekend at thel coast wil be sunday. more coming u p. >>> that's a bleep cobra! >> a pennsylvania grandmother e says shs just looking out for the kids when she stopped and killed a venomosn cobra! she apped a few pictures of the snake before the execution this week. the

. >> megan mcgrath has been at the crash scene all morning. what can you tell us, what kind of update have you gotten? > well, police are still looking for the driver or drivers that are responsible. it all happened down here on t southbound lanes of the baltimore/washington parkway here. you can see there's a backup right hhere, t's unrelated. that's for the ramp headed to the beltway, they've cleared the scene here on the bw parkway earlier this morning. we're getting more information about the pedestrians who was killed. he's been identified as 52-year-old mark johnson senior of baltimore, maryland. here's the video from earlier this morning. you can see how all the southbound lanes on the parkway were closed. allche trafas detoured on to the beltway, and police are still looking for the driver or drivers who hit mr.johnson. hit and killed him. the latest information is that it appears he was hit more than once. none of the drivers stayed on the scene. so all of them were gone by thei time arrived. now, it is unclear why johnson was on the

let's go to "news4 today" megan mcgrath who is life near the scene. what can you tell us now? >> at this point, in the rush hour, we basically have a standstill situation. we are looking down on the southbound lanes of the baltimore-washington parkway and up on t 193 erpass. you can see traffic not moving at all. there is the detour just i ahead there.an all l of the southbound side of the bw parkway are closed. they are detouring traffic on th northbound side of the beltway. that's as far as you're able to. go this morni this is all because of a deadly hit and run accident that happened early this morning. you can see the emergency crews that are still on the scene. they are still documenting this accident. not a lot of information about exactly what happened. for example, we don't know why the pedestrian was down there oe arkway at this hour.o also n information on the vehicle that struck that pedestrian ath then left scene. certainly police are lking for anyone who may have been in the area, may have witnessed something to come forward here. but the bottom line is because o

megan mcgrath is live at arlington police headquarters th the surveillance video they hope to catch the suspect. good morning, megan. >> reporter: good morning, pat.i was a bold assault. it happened in the morning when many people were headed to work and downtownrystal city. take a look at the video. this is the man wanted in connection with this sexual assd lt. you coule him walking through the corridor there. it is a good image of the person that they are looking for. now this sexual assault happened yesterday morning just after 8:30. theictim had just left the crystal city metro station and was walking through e underground pedestrian systems that connect to other buildings is in the area. she went to a building on jefferson davis highway and police say that the suspect followed her as she mader heway ultimate timately cornering her in an opel vator and assaulted her. >> he didcorner her and grabbed her and physically assaulted her as well asex slly assaulted her and at all times the door to the elevator were open and when other individuals enterede area the suspect fled and the vict

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, live in northeast. tha l you. >>> acal sports star is calling out d.c. leaders of the amount of gun violence in southeast d.c. >> her outrag may lead to a media blackout tonight. during a visit to hendley elementary school in washington, mystics' natasha cloud learned the school habeen hit several times. later she spoke about it with her 20,000 followers in instagram posts. >> when you'realking about changing a culture, when you're talking about ending a cycle, when you're talking about empowering our iuths and gving them opportunities, it starts with an ducation. ourds kian't even feel safe to go to school right now. >> clout has called for a media blackout starting after tonight's game. she says she won't talk about she iolence in d.c. unless can get a meeting with mayor bowser and ward eight cowens l- council membern >>> in der, the owner of the bronx, pat bolland, has -- b bowlen has died. he died last night at home surrounds eed -- surrounded loved ones. he had battled alzheimer's for several years

back to you. >> all right, megan mcgrath live in northwest ington. megan, thank you. >>> in prince georges county a confrontation caught on camerah more than a million views on twitter. two black women say a white man harassed them at a local pool. >> i've never talk to you. >> i'm orry. >> that's funny because your video is going to be a bunch of lies. >> now the women here were considering living at the addition apartmentsin le hyattsviuntil a potential neighbor took issue with them having a glass bottle at the poo t and thre was this confrontation between nick star and the women. the women left andst r-street followed them. he was involved in a similar situation at the same pool the day before and in both of the incidents police did not press charges. one of the wo en did file a restraining order against starr-street. we have reached out to him, but have not heard back yet. >>> it's now 6:36. here is a look at the other top stories we're following this morning. police have released more information about monday night's deadly crash on the bwparkwa

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, thank you. >>> 5:51. bent to turn to the weather.ou noted the fact that we hadn't had a 90 in the forecast -- we hit there yesterday, right? >> touched it yesterda only at one of our three airports. that's it. yeah. >> it felt pretty good for early june. >> i would agree. and there's no 90s in the ten-day forecast. i'll share the whole ten day with you in a second. right now, your friday morning, your tgif is underway. skies are -- sort of depends are where you live. there are clearer skies up to the north and cloudier to the you see these skies are clear. there's the clouds there, a little bit on the southern side of our camera view. 74 here in washington now. mostly 70s around town. there are plenty of 60s to be ec found esplly in the shenandoah valley this morning. down into parts of central virginia. evrthern montgomery county up to frederick, maryland, all below 70 to get the day started. school days are getting fewer and fewer as we get closer to summer vacation. today's school day forecast, no weather worries. there's a tiny c

news 4's megan mcgrath caught up with people along "h" and "i" streets to get their take on these newg "i" street and the buses are moving right along. today is day one of the dedicated lanes. so far, so good. >> it's great. i love it. i like the way the bus can go through with no problems. >> how much faster would you say it was? >> a lot faster. >> the bright red paint seems to be doing the trick. carsenerally gothe point and stayed out of them. although we did see a delivery truck get a ticket for blocking the way. >> it was pretty much a smooth commute. people were following the lane and everybody can see the red. it's a god color. it's eye catching. boom, it's right there. >> the lanes are "h" and "i" street. the corridor gets sost coed that many buses can only go about 3 miles an hour. byvi remo other traffic from the lanes, vdot hopes to pick up the pace and cut commute time >> i think it's great so we can make it faster to work and there's less traffic. i think that's exciting. >> the lanes areon bus just during rush hour. you can still make a right ha-h turn from a la at t en

megan mcgrath is following t u latest f from the embassy of the dominican republic.ood morning. >> reporter: foreign. yeah -- good morning, yeah, a lot of unanswered a prince george's county family is hoping to learn today or tomorrow when they can bring the bodies of their loved ones home. 50-year-old cynthia y ander fiance, 63-year-old nathaniel holmes, were und dead in their hotel in the dominican republic last thursday. including to "the dominican today," a local news organization, the bod showed no signs of violence. the family says they sill don't know what happened and they are shocked and devastated by the loss. day and holmes had been posting pictures of their vacation on facebk. lots the smiling pictures. lots of shots on the beach. relatives say they don't know what happened. they were having a great time. they areti waing for information and hope to get something later on today or tomorrow. back to you. >> hope the family finds some closure. thank you. >>> 5:47. a moped driver is in critical condition after colliding with a van. the accident happened near

randolph road shut down between parklawn and putnam because of the police investigation where megan mcgrath is this morning. aaron? >> all right. thank you. >>> it is 6:02 now. a contract employee is accused of sexually abusing a young girl t a d.c. school. >> police say the abuse happened from january until may of this year at capitol hill montessori at logan in northeast. 21-year-old justin hickman is accused of having sexual contact with a13-year-old girl. hickman was a contract employee working for springboard education in america which runs after-school programs at severad . schools. our news partners at wtop report capitol hill was thesc only ol he worked with while employed by the company. now dcpf is suspending its relationship during this investigation. hickplan is charged with -- hickman is charged with second-degre>>child abuse. fairfax county police are searching for a man who allegedly exposed himself at a target store in fairfax. this is a photo from the store on new inea road last month. employees found the man outside the sto with his pantsdown. he quickly left after seeing

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megan mcgrath is on her way and live pictures coming up. right now at the accident scene ll traffic pushed to westbound i-unfortuna66. one express lane by the truck fire so your solution at this pointhis morning. westbound 66, the ramp to the outer loop is shut down because of tv intigation. southbound 95 at 1 wood bridge, two lanes blocked by a disabled list. 270 northbound and southbound no b b metastaticast cancer is relentless, but i was relentless first. relentless about learning the first song we ever danced to. about teaching him to put others first. about helping hech raise her first ild. and when i was first diagnosed, my choice was everyday verzenio. it's the only one okeits kind that can be taevery day. it gives us more time without cancer progressing. verzenio is the only cdk4 & 6 inhibitor approved with hormonal therapy that can be taken every day for postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- mbc. diarrhea is common, may be severe, or cause dehydration or infection. before taking verzenio, tell your doctor if you have fever, chills,

megan mcgrath, news4. >>> 6:26. still ahead on "news4 today," could the fitness tracker you use to improve your health toil be havinger an advse effect on you? >> we'l stell you whye say yes. how about our weather, lauryn? >> not too shabby. although we have clouds. they are moving out. 81 today. around normal. t e breeze, we'll talk about the father's day forec sunday. we'll talk about t ha >>> just about 6:30 now. good morning, everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. let's begin this morning with a check on your forecast and commute. our melissa mollet is standing by with you first 4 traffic. >> we'll start, though, with storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts in for chuck today with a cloudytart to the day. >>> cloudy start once. once again i forgot my clicker. i'll run over here again. i alwaysforget my clicker when i'm running over here so quick. thank you so much, justin, for showing me where it is. i set it down. i got t, thank you. i saw you over there. thank you. cloudy out there right now. cloud

megan mcgrath will have a live up.te comi >>> president trump and the first lady have landed in the u.k. under heavy security. this is both a ceremonial and official visit for the president. it's also excted to be a controversial one. protests are planned, andhe infamous by trump balloon is expected to fly again. >>> some metro riders will hopefully find relief today with chnges to the huntington-pentagon express hupele. durin hours buses will depart from both sides of the huntington station and head directly for the pentagon station. before oday, one bus would circle huntington which led to overcrowding and long wait times. >>> 4:35. a huge sendoff party at dulles international for one of americs oldest world war ii army veterans. >> sidney walton is 100 years old. he's on a mission to visit all s 50 statnd meet as many people as possible. yesterday mr. walton headed to normandy, france, t for 75th anniversary of d-day. he and his son paul are flying first class courtesy of united. >> oh, my gosh. i not he's going stronger than --o think he's gg stronger than i am. it's amazing. every

welcome to the kingdom the same names you mcgrath. today when you have passed the interview you have had your case referred to us by the u.n.h.c.r. you guys are going to be going to regina. road just a good question regina is the capital of the provinces the sketch one which is located in the middle of canada. beautiful stars when you arrive it will be spring time so you'll see flowers and animals good. beautiful start for me you can see for miles you'll be able to receive treatment for your eye i noticed that you had difficulty in the bright light will definitely be able to see a doctor in canada. everyone has access to a physician. sauce so. it was i will last 11 on. the last time we traveled we were escaping the bombs in syria. but. after all they cared about was my high school certificate it was my only chance to get to university where you could avoid the worst of it. it was hard not to think about our lives back in syria in the last moments. as you look. at the career and the regular at the get at them of their. mind if that min

an incident overnight that megan mcgrath will talk abo in hear live report. -- in her live report. and losed between d constitution earthwatch. this could last a couple of more hours and may not reopen until weet some daylight on the scene for investigators. eastbound 66 near nutley, s have a police incident and a lane blocked. silver spring, northbound new hampshire near adelphi, right lane gets by the milling and paving. and the beltway outer loop, inner loop, no major issues. eun?u. >> thank yo >> new this morning, we've learned a maryland man pled guilty in a crash that illed five people. alvin hubbard iii pled guilty to several counts. the crash happened in delaware last july. the new jersey family was driving from a trip to ocean city when a pickup truck driven by hubbard crossed a median and hithe t minivan. a father and his four daughters died. hubbard is set to be seseenced in tember. he faces up to 14 years in prison and nes. >>> it's 4:55. the newest employee at d.c. superior court iseady to serve in the most touching way ossible. >> meet pepper,e dog you see right here.

people know amy mcgrath around the country, the former air force pilot who ran for a congressional seat last year and barely lost. she developed a great following here in kentucky. a great political operation as well as a national following. she is looking at the race seriously. i think she is going to make the race. if she doesn't there is a guy , named matt jones here. race. if she doesn't, there is a guy named matt jones here who has a state wide sports radio talk show. he has a lot of actually conservative republican listeners who i think would vote for him. i think amy is probably the first target. they have talked to her. i have talked to her. she is dedicated to public service. it will be the beddoe o'rourke ted cruz race of 2020. the nation will be closely focused on that contest. >> the democrat in the beto ted cruz race, the democrat lost. do you think a democrat can win especially against mitch mcconnell? >> is going to be interesting. if the race were in 2022 or 2018, i would say there was a much better chance. it is hard to tell with donald trump at the top of the ticket. h

the coming decades because of global warming, let's speak to our environment correspondent, matt mcgrathclimate change conference in bonn. how far can we say this is man—made? scientists balked at linking single events like heatwaves to climate change but there has been a growing body of evidence that connects the two. last yea r‘s body of evidence that connects the two. last year's summer heatwave was said by the met office to have been made 30 times more likely by the rising temperatures we have seen over the last century. these scientific arguments about the human influence on climate change are not just confined to heatwaves. here we have had scientists arguing about a much bigger thing, a scientific report on how the world would cope with the rise of temperatures of 1.5 degrees over the next century. this report came out in october and said that it was possible to keep global temperature rises below 1.5 degrees but it would require the countries of the world to cut emissions by about half before 2030. in this particular format the un a about half before 2030. in this particularforma

trump is accused of not disclosing the classified intelligence to congress which is angering to mcgrath's. china's president xi jinping is the guest of honor of a major economic summit and russia is in st petersburg on the 2nd day of his state visit lattimer putin says the relationship with russia's biggest trading partner is at an unprecedented level with exports growing every year the leaders have also been talking about the korean peninsula syria and venezuela. and it's in st petersburg for us as to what is on the agenda for the for this year. yes president changing bring in the main a guest of honor here at this in petersburg economic forum and he has brought a significant delegation of a 1000 people the 50000 people who are attending but there's another name going around during this conference and that's the name of michael caliphate he's a u.s. investment banker and he was arrested in february on those charges. of frauds which he says are being fabricated he is now under house arrest but his arrest has shocked many investors and the u.s. official delegation is not boycotting this ev

matt mcgrath in bonn. you‘re watching afternoon live, these are our headlines. and ready to win. west indies have to beat india to have anychance of reaching the cricket world cup semi—finals. they are chasing 269 for victory and are currently on 50. liam broady has missed out on a place in the main darw at wimbledon. the british player was beaten in the third round of qualifying by frenchman gregoire barrere. i‘ll be back with more on those stores (e.g. i‘ll be back with more on those stories later. scientists say cervical cancer might one day be eradicated because of the success of a vaccination programme targeting the hpv virus. it‘s one of the main causes of the disease, and a new study has examined the impact of the vaccine on 60 million people in 14 different countries. lauren moss reports. when mandy was 44 she had a routine smear test. the news that she had cervical cancer changed her life. it was a huge bolt out of the blue because i did not have any symptoms, but i was treated within 17 days. i had a radical hysterectomy, which means that everything wa

it all started this morning on randolph road in rockville where we find megan mcgrath. >> reporter: pat, it all began with a robbery here at the united gun shop on randolph road in rockville. you could see the damage done when the suspects drove a car into the front of the store. now things quicklyca ested from there. aff responding police oer fired on the suspects afterhey t his cruiser. one of the suspects is now dead. four others are still on the loose. policeou tweeted this picture of the stolen car used to ram the front of the uniteop gun s on randolph road. you could see all of the guns hanng on the wall. the suspects then used a second escape.ar to make their but they were confronted by police officers in the parking lot. investigators say the suspects rammed the policer cuiser. this picture shows the damage. e bumper that was torn off. the officer then opened fire. about two blocks down randolph the getaway car broke dwn in front of loemanns plaza.pe one s was found dead with a gunshot wound in the car and three stolen handguns wereound nearby. four other men bailed out and ran

. >> news 4's megan mcgrath is live at th mcdonald's location in northeast d.c. pretty shocking video there to watch, megan. >> oh, yeah. absolutely. a very very scary situation for the people who work here, the three suspects very menacing at times, aiming their weapons point blank atc mnald's workers. this happened yesterday morning around 5:30 in the morning. and itghwas all cau on videotape. >> a terrifying situation forth employees inside this mcdonald's on south dakota avenue in northeast. three suspects allh armed wit handguns rush in. a customer standingat the counter is knocked in the head with a gun and falls to the ground. the employees are ordered to gec theash from what appears to be safe in the back and then froma the csh registers. all the oile, onef the suspects points a gun directly at the frightenedployees. he robbery was caught on surveillance cameras, investigators hope someone will recognize the suspects and give them a call. here's person of interest number one, wearing a black mask, black clothing and white gloves with red palms. the second

. >> our megan mcgrath has been on the scene and joins us live with the latest on this. >> we have seena real improvement here on th baltimore-washington parkway in last 45 minutes or so. take a live look here. you can see these are the southbound lanes that we are looking down on right now. they had been closed. closed for several hours, but they opened up aroun 6:00 this morning and you can see that the delays in the area have dissipated nicely. we have got traffic pretty much running at speeds through the area. that was not the case earlier. take a look at the video shot ni early this m. we had a fatal hit and run pedestrian accident here on the southbound side that happened between1:30 and 12:00 last night. all of the traffic was forced on the northbound side of the beltway and that was the case fothe beginning of rush hour this morning. we saw significant delays in the area. 6:00 or so, that is wheny the reopened all of those lanes and actually things have cleared up nicely. i guess summertime maybe the volume is a little lighter than usual but we are now seeing traffic running at

joining us is meghan mcgrath and skylar olson meghan, let me start with you.do you see happening? in my town there is a lot of inventory on the market. it does seem to be moving and i can't help but think that lower rates are helping it >> i think you're right. i think lower rates are helping. inventory is going up a little i think low inventory has kept people out of the market things aren't great. they're not booming but they're better than they were a couple months ago that's why you've seen the home builder shares continue to go up this year. >> my guess, skylar, is they say all housing markets are local, but there are two distinct ones in the united states there's one that exists on the coasts, and runs from boston all the way down to miami. and the other one runs from seattle all the way down to san diego. and there the prices are high. mortgage rates, coming down is a help but maybe not that much and then there's the other market, pretty much everywhere else, except denver, which i gather is very hot as well >> i think right now you kind of hit the nail

welcome to the kingdom the same names you have mcgrath. today when you have passed the interview you have had your case referred to us by the u.n.h.c.r. you guys are going to be going to regina. road just a good question regina is the capital of the provinces to sketch one which is located in the middle of canada. beautiful stars when you arrive it will be spring time so you will see flowers and animals good. beautiful start for me you can see for miles will be able to receive treatment for your on i noticed that you had difficulty in the bright light will definitely be able to see a doctor in canada. everyone has access to a physician. self so. if you're like. me and. it was i will last 11 on. the last time we travelled we were escaping the bombs in syria. but. after all they cared about was my high school certificate it was my only chance to get to university where you could go where the best interest is. it was hard not to think about our lives back in syria in these last moments. as you look. at their career in the regular about how do

megan mcgrath is live at theoo swith details on the allegations. meghan?porter: well, good morning. oach patrick cilento is on administrative leave, accused of pushing his wife down a set of concrete stairs. cile cilento's attorney says that her clients is innocent and is going to fight the charges. cilento is a well-known footbale coach at bullis school in potomac. according to court documents, cilento got into an argument wh his wife at their home on sunday and allegedly pushed her down the stairs. the police were called but didke ot ma an arrest at the time. his wife,though, later filed ao aint on her own, and the commissioner issued and arrest warrant. cilento's attorney says her client ha been wrongly accused. >> any charges of assault are serious. my client did not assault his wife and did not engage in any a of domestic violence. >> reporter: coach cilento has d-degree ged with sec assault. again, the school has placed him on administrative leave. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 6:34. let's look at your top stories. we start with breaking news. bc ne

megan mcgrath is following the latest developments for us from the embassy of the dominican republic.porter: well, good morning. yeah, a lot o unanswered questions with all of this. and a prince george's county family is hoping to learn either today or tomorrowanhen they c bring the bodies of their loved ones home. 50-year-old cynthia day and her fiance, 63-year-old nathaniel holmes, were found dead in their hotel room at the hotel in the dominin republic last ursday. now according to dominican today, a local news service in the area, the bodies showed no signs of violence. the family says they still don't know what happened, and they're just shocked and devastated by the loss. day and hoemps had been posting pictures of their vacation on facebook, lots of shots of them at the beach, smiling, having a good time. refbts sa relatives said they were really enjoying themselves, and they just don't know what happened here. again, later tod our perhaps tomorrow the family is hoping to get somere mo information and learn when they can bring the bodies of their loved ones home. >> thank you.

megan mcgrath, news4. >> all right. >>> still ahead on "news4 today," could fitness tracker you use tomprove your health actually be having an adverse effect? why some say yes. >>> plus, pride swag flap. what had to be removed to make way for a rainbow flag inne cal county that didn't sit well with a lot of people. >>> how about weather, lauryn? >> a beautiful sunrise coming up at 42 this morning. then we've got the wind with us. any more rain in the forecast, we'll talk about that coming up. we're the slowskys. we like drip coffee, layovers- -and waiting on hold. what we don't like is relying on fancy technology for help. visnail mail! we were d to a y2k party... uh, didn't that happen, like, 20 years ago? oh, look, karolyn, we've got a mathematician on our hands! check it out! now you can schedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. today's xfinity service. simple. easy. awesome. i'd rather not. ♪ ♪ rhythm is a dancer ♪ it's a soul companion ♪ you can feel it everywhere ♪♪ lift your hands and voices ♪ you can feel itthe air us i ♪ oh sorry, we were r