meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> we reached out to the company that owns the building. when they say the air-conditioning did go out this aek last week but they say they called crews in right away to fix the problem. a spokespersonwent on to say when they receive complaints from the tenants they work quickly to address the problems. >>> when we come back after a break making progress, we have a status update on quarterback alex smith after that horrific leg injury he suffered last season. >>> plus, where you live matters when it comes to towing laws. the news 4 i-team explains why one northern virginia neighborhood is all fired up about a recent tow incident. but the county says it was perfectly legal. with this one little nexgard chew comes the confidence, you're doing what's right, to protect your dog for a full month.cks it's the #1 vet recommended protection. ieand it's safe for pupps. nexgard. what one little chew can do. >>> we all remember that horrific leg injury suffered by redskins quarterback alex smith >> we all remember that horrific leg injury suffered by

meagan fitzgerald, news4. >> there is a good chance you are covered by your auto policy. nearly four out of fiveiv drs purchase that comprehensive coverage as part of their insurance package. >>> rain like we have seen this week is more common. our temperature change is partly to blame for tha t as temperatures get warmer the atmosphere can hold and release more moisture. that leads to heavier downpours across the country. pat lawson explains why that trend is only expected to get worse. >> reporter: rain is an essential part of the world's weather system. but a lot of rain in a short amount of time can overwhelm oorm drains leading t accidents on the road, damaging homes and infrastructure. a new sty in the journal water resources research shows heavy downpours are on the rise. it is a trend we have witnessed over the last three to five decades when global warming started to intensify. >> the earth goes through warming and cooling processes. what we are seeing right now is it is contributing to the amou of greenhouse gases we are putting in the atmosphere. like carbon di

. >> the boys are now speaking for the first time only with news 4's meagan fitzgerald. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: there's nothing average about ranal and his brother any more. he was once a teenager like his iends, with big dreams. >> i smile through the day. >>> famous as a writer or rapper, a famous rapper. >> reporter: but on may 4th,is life changed forever. >> i was standing on the fence and i heard someshots, some shots ring out. >> reporter: he was shot. the bullet striking his spine. he spent weeks in the hosphoal ng for a full recovery, but it was his mother ebony who told him the prognosis. >> she told me, you'll be all rinht, but you're gog to be paralyzed. i said, i'll stillliv right? she said yeah. i said that's the only thing that mattered. >> reporter: he understood how precious life was. three months earlier on brother was ay his shot steps away from thr home near kennel worth avenue in northeast. >> when he was shot, i was running. then i pushed him out of the way. >> at2 years old, he said he saved a girl's life while almost losing his own. now he's too scared to go

reporting ini] prince georges ounty, meagan fitzgerald,lp news4. >> what a scene back there,e1 thanktate police issued an he was xtreme danger. they say thexde1 toddler waslp kidnapped wednesday afternoon in warren county, just before noon yesterday. someone returned him to his home unharmed. searching for this man who they belve kidnapped the toddler. >>> new this morning, the fourth of july holiday took aok dangers turn in chicago, while people were enjoying their xdfirewos. axd stabbing and shooting scare sent people on ac stampede, injuring more than a dozen. thisvideo from someone in the thick a&u ijdws sho the immediah afterma. officials say three people were stabbed just after the fireworks show began. all three vicms are listed in serious to critical condition. after that incident, at least 16 people we hurtç?$r' aw3xd stamp. they are expected to be okay. police saye1 someone th-m!q the had been a i]shooting. >>> and back herexd at home, wee learningbout a second case of someone throwing a t(firework aa police officer. on thursdayor prince gees county police say a teenagerxd

. >>> good morning to you, i'm meagan fitzgerald. thanks for joining us on this hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. that is why we're in weather lert mode this morning. another dangerously hot day is on tap.he foratest we'll check in with lauryn ricketts. it's like ablanket. >> it's that heat blanket covering you out there right now. even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. see if we canet that sun for you. but again it is a hazy day out there already. of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6:00 a.m. on your saturdaymorning. in the 70s right now in d.c., coming in at 81 degrees. but let's go ahead and factor in that humidity. it feels like 86 out there. and last hour it felt like 88. it's come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. and so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. that's why we ha

i'm meagan fitzgerald. we are in store for a beautiful day ahead.nd you know what i ay, we deserve it. you remember last week, it was so oppressive hot, you couldn't go outside. sweating everywhere. face melting off. maybe that was just me. >> it was all of us. yesterday was gorgeous. the day before was gorgeous. i was off the last two days. it's been absolutely fantastic . weathe it's been a littlehot but it hasn't been that bad. from the live city camera, you can see the beautiful orange hues out there right now. it's a perfe sunrise. before the sun came up, it's on mynstagram page and all my social media, facebook and twitter, all of that. it's a beautiful sunrise, coming up about five minutes after 6:0 72 is our temperature right now. it's comfortable too. you walk outside and you're not hit with the humidity in the face. very comfortable conditions. might need a light jacket in the shenandoah valley. we have plenty of sunshine, could have an isolated chance of a shower or thunderstorm pping up later this afternoon. same deal heading into tomorr

. >> meagan fitzgerald, thank you. >>> today, the public will have a chance to pay final respect to the late supreme court justice john paul stevens. a private ceremony and internment will begin at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. the public is invited to pay respects from 10:30 a.m. until 8:00 p. a private funeral service will be held at national arlington cemetery tomorrow. the 99-year-old died last tuesday after suffering a stroke. he was the third longest serving associate justice in the history of the supreme court. >> in the week ahead, former special counsel robert mueller will testify in public beforio two congressl committees. mueller will testify before the house judiciary and intelligence committees on wednesy. house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says mueller's report presents a very substantial evidence that esident trump is, quote, guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. mueller subhit his report backa in mrch and it details his 22-month investigation into the russian interference into the presidential electavn. we will hlive testimony of his coverage on wednesday morning. t

. >> news 4's meagan fitzgerald explains who rush to the aid of patients and who was nearly hit by the gunfire. meagan? >> reporter: yeah, doreen and wendy the shooting happened in broad daylight just before 10:00 this morning. amother and newborn child, they were inside the howard university hospital when a this almost dismisses woman's head, but tonight the employees here are saying it's one of their own that's hero. >> this is not a site neighbors who live in this shaw rh neighbod thought they would wake up to on monday morning. crime scene tape was up while police were out investigating shooting. >> i woke up and started working. my desk faces the howard l, hospita and the next thing you know i hear a couple of pops. >> reporter: brett porter was inside his home when d.c. police say two suspects started chasing and shootint a a man who was running away on fifth street right near the entrance to howard university hospital. one of the blets struck a window and a nurse who worked in the ob-gyn office at the hospital sent us these pictures. she sa the bullet went through the wall of he

. >> reporter: news 4's meagan fitzgerald is live at the scene with the very latest. meagan?t. police tell us the suspect is running along fifth street here. a bullet went into a window right here at the howard i univers hospital. it was inches away from striking a mother hol wb ba. hedi snghoing. h it so close to home, so just weird to say. >> reporter: it was an unsettling and scary way to start the week for neighbors who live along fifth street in northwest. >> i woke up, started working. my desk faces the howard ta hospi and the next thing you know i hear a couple of pops. >> reporter: brett porter was inside his home when d.c. police say two suecspstdar te running away on fifth street right near the entrance of hoitard university's ho. one of the bullets striking a seindow. a nur would works in the ob-gyn office at the hospital sent us these pictures saying the bullet went throug the wall of her department just missing this woman who is sitting down with her newborn baby waiting for an appointment. i spoke with the new mother who says the bullet nearly missed her house.

meagan fitzgerald is looking alsot a tractor-trailer on the outer loop. right? >> reporter: exactly right. before t:00 this morningt a vehicle was involved in a single-vehicle crash and coming in to our newsroom, we are learning that person haspassed away. if you take a look behind me here you're looking at the aftermath of that crash. traffic very slow moving on the outer loop of the westbound side before the university exit. i want to get to chopper 4 to give you a better look at what we are seeing out here. slow moving traffic for the last 45 m or so. this is actually an improvement from what we saw earlier this morning when traffic was at a standstill. maryland state police were out here for hours investigating that single-vehicle crash. they tell us that driver somehow lost control of their vehicle, slamming into the guardrail and then immediately, of cours being transported to the hospital. we know that person has lost their life. right now, 3 out of the 4 lanes that are open here on the beltway. if you g areng to be commuting this morning for work and goi

news 4's meagan fitzgerald has the latest. >> reporter: the call came in just after 2:00 this morning for three vehicles involved in a crash here on powder mill road in beltsville in prince george's county. i want to give you how bad of a ash we're talking. take a look at the blue car there. you'll notice th the roof was cut off. it's on the ground. a lot of debris from that vehicle scattered all over the roadway there. three vehicles involved in the crash. we know two people were extracted from a car. a total of seven people rushed to the hospital. if you turn over here, you'll see that this is the third vehic that was involved in this accident just after 2:00 this morning. the roadway, of course, shut down as investigators try and iece together the pieces and understand what happened out here. that is the very latest. reporting fromge prince geor county, meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> we are learningutore abo the victims killed this week in deadly jetski crash in maryland. the husband and wife have a to connection the washington wizards. the team owner tweeting his condolences to the

news 4's meagan fitzgerald spoke with the writer and family and how police found out it was all fake. >> write about everything, l poitics, women's issues, gay rights, race. >> reporter: leonard pitts has on several awards as a columnist. >> pulitzer prize for commentary 2004. this is the citation. >> reporter: but if you ask his 3-year-old granddaughter maya, she will tell you he's an aw d-winning grandpa, too. >> you know how i know how to put my feet up. >> reporter: on sunday morning just before 5:00 he temporarily became a murder suspect. >> never been arrested, and technically wasn't arrested then and never had handcuffs on before either. p >> reporter:itts was sleeping when his phone rang. it was bowie police callinga afte9 is11 caller called them about a crime happening inside pitts' home. >> the caller on the line state that had he had murders his wife and that he was going to shoot the police when they arrived on the scene. >> the caller gave pitts' s addreso police called asking him to come outside. >> reporter: they brought me out to right about here, put my cell phone dow

meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> trying to resell that after that. >> yikes. >> after that unbelievable rain, nothing but sunshine today. >> but we could have more severe storms later this wem. >> i'oing to be tracking those on thursday. it's not going to be nearly the flood threat that we saw yesterday, but we are talking ot the ptial there for some pretty strong win b so we'lle watching that very closely. thursday could actually be a weather alert day, but nothing like that today. whth a difference day makes. yesterday all rain early and today all sunshine all day. temperature-wise out there right now, we're sitting nice and warm. temperatures in the mid-80s. normally this time of the year we're around 89 and right now sitting at 84 degrees. 78, a gorgeous night there as well. take a look at the next couple of days, staying d and comfortable for tomorrow, but then possible severe storms for thursday. i'll break that down for you, and i'mracking the tropics, yeah. we could have a tropical storm sr a hurricane over the next couple of day making its way on the land and in the u.s. see yo

meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> i would go with don't salvage. there is a good chance you are covered by your auto policy. according to the iurance institute institute four out of five drivers purchased comprehensive coverage as part of their overall plan. wendy? >> and a local reminder, irginia's segregationist past destroyed by the rains. a portion of thesoalled segregation wall in arlington collapsed in the high water that. wall was constructed in the 1930s separating the white waycroft woodlawn neighborhood from the black halls hill neighborhood. arlington took down most of that wall for development in the '60s, but, a portion remained ue and a plaq educated people about its history. >> fairfax county working to repairam ded roads today. chopper 4 shows you the damage on prosperity avenue at morningside dry.ok lo at these big deep cracks. this road near the creek bridge s.s huge cracks because of yesterday's ra the road is shut down while crews work to repair it. we'll have an update on ow long the repairs could take. that's coming up at 5:30

. >> news 4's meagan fitzgerald talked with the woman who put the flag up in the first place. >> you know, d.c. is normally a place that is very inclosive. >> d.c. is an inclusive city and betty rhodes says her neighborhood here isn't any different. >> we flew the flag for june even though it's july now. hadn't taken it down yet just to recognize pride month. >> reporter: and when she came home this morning and saw her flag on the ground she didn't think twice until she saw her security camera footage. >> it feels so devastating when sone takes aty pret passive thing and turns it into an act of violence. >> she's talking about this. a man walking on to her yard, tearing down her pride flag and slamming it up against her gate while hurling antugay sl. >> he just like ripped it completely off. >> reprter: she showed the broken pole that she found lying on the groundhe when s returned home this morning. >> to hear him being so disgusted and have such violent verbal reaction to a flag was really discouraging. >> she said she and her husband were flying the flag that showed support for pr

. >> meagan fitzgerald reporting live. >>> a massive fire creates quite a stir across the region. take a look at this scene from chopper 4. this happened around 3:00 this afternoon. flames broke out here destroying a barn and a greenhouse on route 96. firefighters say th e weren't any chemicals or animals in thee barn, and were no ins ries. there'ill no word on the cause here but the thick blao smke could be seen for miles around. it even appeared on our storm team 4 radar. >> a man danding methadone killed a person and wounded a police sergeant before he was shot and killed by police. baltimore's police chief says the sergeant who was injured is5 ear veteran billy shiflic who isab in st condition before undergoing surgery. >>> the man who plowed h car during a white nationalist rally in charlottesville will spend the remainder of his life in prison. a judge upheld the jury's recommended sentence for james n field i the 2017 attack that killed heather heyer and injured several others. the judge called the video ofc hi driving into the crowd one with of the more chilling and distur

meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> now to a story ported first here on news 4. two d.c. firefighters are charged with assaulting three d.c. police officers in an altercation at a local pizza shot. court recds show firefighters courtney barnes and kimberly gorhamwere off duty when that cronnor confrontation happened on connecticut avenue at 3:30 sunday morning. one of them t reportedly sa the officer that i hope you take a bullet to the head because i'm not going to revive you. on paid fighters are leave right no >> local senators are protesting plans to move another major federal office across the country and out of washington. that could potentially force local workers out of a job. as scott macfarlane reports, there's growing concerns about growing plans to relocate federal agencies. scott? >> reporter: last night onashis broadcwe told you the u.s. interior department has plans to move a federal land agency from m street in southeast d.c. to colorado with dozens of locke rall jobs at stake. virginia's senators are asking the u.s. department of agriculture to move the u

meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> you see the last shot of the boy -- the child going down the stairs.ndicapped accessible, and we did reach out to the d.c. housing authori which tells us that their mother is at thetop of the waiting list to receive one as soon as available. also no one has been arrested in either child's shooting. >>> next on "news 4 at 6:00," computers, desks and showers. what ae're learningbout what ae're learningbout amazon'slans for p z3a5wz z16fz y3a5wy y16fy >>> hey, we are getting a first look now, an early one, at how amazon plans to into the neighborhood with its new hq2 in arlington county and so far it looks pretty good for walkers,c ts and public transit users. now the first proposed buildings are twin, 22-story towers. the metropolitan park on southeast street in pentagon ty. according to washington business journal, amazon expects about 64% of hq2 employees will use metro, rail, bus or walk to work. about 6% will bike and there will be 500bi long-term parking spaces. 58 showers, yeah, for all those bikers and 750 low, too, and as for public transit the t

. >> news 4's meagan fitzgerald talked with the homeowners and has the story that comes from southeast d.c. >> we flew the f flag june even though it's july now.ha we dn't taken it down yet just to recognize pride month. te >> repor betty rhodes will tell you her neighborhood along independence aven in southeast is very inclusive and welcoming. why she and many other neighborhood flied the pride flag so when she came home this morning and saw the flag on the ground, she didn't think twice until she saw her security camera footage. >> it feels so devastating whne someoakes a pretty passive thing and turns it into an act of violence. >> reporter: she' talking about this, a man walking on to her yard, tearing down her pride flag and slamming it up against her gate while hurling anti-gay slurs. >> he just lake ripped it completely off. >> reporter: rhodes found the lying pole that she fou on the ground when she returned home this morning. >> to hear him just be so a disgustednd have such violent verbal reaction to a flag was really discouraging. >> reporter: she says she and her husband we

meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >> makiyah'sas familyet up a foundation in her honor. can you find a link to learn more about it in our nbc washington app. just go to oe s and search owkiyah wilson. >>> right two dozen protesters have shut down the entrance to i.c.e. headquarters in downtown d.c. t >> reporter:he group is calling on speaker nancy pelosi and all elected officials to find a comprehensive solution to the immigration crisis that doesn't include deporting people. protests were organized by never again who are equating what's b happening on tder to encampment centers for yous. >> i'm here never again as a jew. never again means never again for anyone. >> so far no one has been arrested. >>> the unitedations is the latest organization to denounce the new trump administration asylum regulations. yesterday the administration unveile a new rule to stop almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the southern border. this interim final rule is expeckseding to into effect today shifting asylum cl ims from mexico and guatemala instead of the united states. th

meagan fitzgerald reporting live. >> let's get to chief meeorologist doug kammerer. it's amazing that we had those scenes yesterday and today it's so nice. he got socked in yesterday with the clouds and t rain. high temperatures in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees what, a difference a day make. the only clouds are back heres towardthe mountains and the rest of us, abundant sunshine. it's been a fantastic afternoon. temperatures getting closer to advertised. it's around 89 g grees. sitt 85 degrees but 85, blue skies and low humidity and that's a beautiful day coming off what was a disastrous day yesterday one of the wettest days of all time in the month of july. guys, that's saying a lot, and most of that full in oneou h. now over the next couple of days, we can take a little reprieve here today and tomorrow staying dry and comfortable tomorrow but here we go. possible severe storms coming up on thursday we'll tare about that, and then i'm tracking the tropics, too, a couple of things to watch out for. >> doug, regarding the storms, possible storms ony, thursda are

i'm adam t >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. we are probably seeing another day like yesterday. >> yeah. >> it's going to be hot, hot, and even hotter. so, lauryn ricketts, when can wet get some relief around here? >> i think that's coming lat tomorrow, guys, and into tuesday. y.d wednesda but it's going to be hot around the area. maybe just not quite as humid. it will definitely be on thee. drier sid but we are dry right now. for now, i mean, it feels steamy when you walk out there. let's take a look outside. we have got the cloud cover and that's the way it's going to be today. not the best pool day out there, but definitely feeling like you need to take a dip somewhere only because it is so steamy and it's already warm. 80 degrees is our temperature right now already. we are dry across the ara, but then we are also looking at a few showers just trying to scoot own really coming out of the frostburg area. this has been moving rally slowly out of pittsburgh as we t saw ithe last couple of hours. a few showers possible into west

i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'mso adam tuss. elief from the summer heat today. >> it was hot yesterday. looks like it might be a little hotter today? >> yeah, a degree or two. we were 89 degrees yesterday. so here in.c. that didn't start the heat wave. we have to have three or more consecutive days at or abovefo a heat wave. but don't worry. just in case you were counting, i think we will manage to make it into the 90s the next several days, which will constitute a heat wave. hot as two weeks ago. but again it's going to be warm. we had a lonely shower to cool us off. same deal today, a spotty shower. then tuesday better chance of isolated showers and storms. but it's a beautiful start out there. our view from our national harbor camera. gorgeous conditions out there. 80 degrees is thee. temperatur low-to-mid 80s before the hour is over. topping out in the low 90s today. shower f an isolat north of d.c. let's talk about rain for this keekend. also let's tal about the heat. i'llh show you tose numbers on that ten-day forecast com

ws 4.porter: meagan fitzgerald, >>> two years ago when millions of people in the u.s.witnessed a solar eclipse, remember that, today millions in south america were able to see that rare celestial event, check itout. this was one of the best views from chile where the lack of humidit and city lights created some of the world' clearest skies. the totalto eclipse place a little after 4:30hi t afternoon or yesterday afternoon lasted dbout two and a half minutes. astron mists sai the region had not seen an eclipse since the year 1592. amazing. >> how about that. >>> check this out. some extra pool time for penguins and seals in serbia. i love penguins. >> i knew this about you. >> i'm big on penguins. >> i think it's becse they're wearing a tuxedo. >> the zoo getting ready for a heat wavepo the ol is kept at a refreshing 68 degrees. expecting temperaturr to soa over 100. this is the same heat wave that hit europe the past fewweeks. >> we talked about the polar bears. the penguins need to stay cool, too. >> absolutely. they're not used to dealing wit that over there. that's

the couple spoke to meagan ab fitzgerald t what this past year has been like. it's an interview you'll only see on news 4. >> my life has changed. >> got that call that still to this day haunts me, to this day. >> the frantic call was made toa mas dad just after 8:00 in the evening. their daughter was shot to death on her front porch when masked gunmen opened fire in the courtyard this. past year has been incredibly difficult for hem, but's also been a year filled with an undying will and desire to make sure makiyah's spirit lives on. tonight the family is hosting a wa and celebration through the clay terrace neighborhood to celebrate and remember makiyah's life. coming up at 5:00, h parents explain to meagan fitzgerald what helped them get through this past year. >>> newht developments rig now after the justice department announced today that it would not bring charges against a new yorwacity police officer wh accused in the death of eric garner five years ago. that case prompted national protests and started a conversation in the couuntry ab excessive use of

news 4's meagan fitzgerald was there. meagan what, did he have to say? >> reporter: pat and leon, first i have to say that the judge and even his attorney was trying to stop the 17-year-old from speaking, warning him about his rights to remain silent and reminng name there's a courtroom full of prosecutors but he decided to speak anyway, telling the judge that his father was controlling his mind, and he says because of that he decided to kill him. reporter: the teen's mother seen here walking out of court in the long tan skirt moments after hearing h son confess to killing his father but shortly he spoke his mother decided to address the court telling the judge her son lived withis ather the last few years in bowie and that's when she noticed behavioral changes. she encouraged hisfather to be evaluated. the suspect's mother says the teen wasas evaluated week and one day later he was arrested for stabbing his father to death inside his suv. investigators say that vehicle thenollided into a fence in allen pond park before the teen dragged his father's body

meagan fitzgerald. i'm cory smith. we are starting with the weather.the gulf with tropical storm barry. also here in the region a beautiful day in the dmv. now, if you got your hair doner fo church or brunch, good luck to you. that humidity is not playing around, lauryn. >> it's not.ut p the extra serum in it, all that spray and everything like that, because it's going to frizz as soon as you walkts oue, which is clearly what i'm used to because i have fly aways constantly. puthe extra serum on today, the extra hairspray. compared to yesterday a lot more humidity today. it's building. temperatures right now from the upper 70s, mid-to-upper 70s in the shenandoah valley to the low-to-mid 80s here in the d.c. area. so it is a little on the warm

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victim of the same name crashed i his suv into a fence bowie shortly after the attack.w ne4's meagan fitzgerald explains why the teen killed his father. >> reporter: new detailsrg emeg as to why a 17-year-old says he murdered his own father, an accomplished man whose family man say supported and loved his kids. barba koroma ignored warnings not to speak and told the judge his father ctrolled his mind and mother and said, quote, because what have my father has done to me, i committed the murder. the rteen's mothe seen here walking out of court in the lono tan skirt als addressing the judge. she said her son lived with his father in bowie for the last year and that's when she noticed behavioral changes. she said she asked koroma's father to take him in for an evaluation. his latest appointment wasast week, but one day later she says he was arrested for stabbing his father to death inside his suv. investigators say thatehicle hen collided into a fence in allen pond park before the teen dragged his father's body into a wooded area. theprince george's county tate's attorney was also inside the court

meagan fitzgerald. i'm cory smith. we are starting with the weather. acking things on the gulf with tropical storm barry. also here in the region a beautiful day in the dmv. now, if you got your hair doner fo church or brunch, good luck to you. that humidity is not playing around, lauryn. >> it's not.ut p the extra serum in it, all that spray and everything like that, because it's going to frizz as soon as you walkts oue, which is clearly what i'm used to because i have fly aways constantly. puthe extra serum on today, the extra hairspray. compared to yesterday a lot more humidity today. it's building. temperatures right now from the upper 70s, mid-to-upper 70s in the shenandoah valley to the low-to-mid 80s here in the d.c. area. so it is a little on the warm side out there and we will e to see some warm conditions out there today. temperatures are going to be rising. low-to-mid 90s. we do have that slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. we are looking at some more showers and thunderslyrms possibs we get into your we will see more s

i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'm adam tuss. no relief from the heat today. >> looks like today coul be hotter. want to check in with lauryn ricketts. good morning. >> good morning, guys. yeah, a few degrees hotter than yesterday. not really that bad out there. >> the humidity is the killer? >> yeah, the humidity is not going to be that b. did you like yesterday? >> yeah, i thought it was actually nice. one of us did. >> we will talk about that later. ag >> i know me was sitting at the nats game with the sun in her face the whole time and the angle of that sun, that game was getting going at 4:00, 5:00, woo, yeah, it was good out there. i was in the shade. yeah, but it was bad if you were just hanging out in the sunshine. same dealay. if you are in the sun, grab some shade iebse it's going to be hot. temperatures in the low 90s once again. the humidity is not going to be that bad out there today, as i was saying. we will still have the heat. 73 is the temperature right now. low 90s for daytime highs today. we could have an isola

. >>> good morning to you, i'm meagan fitzgerald. thank you for joining u on this beautiful saturday morning. it looksar like we e in store for a perfect day ahead. and here's a live lookutside over washington this morning. it'soing to be perfect. you want to go outside, do a a run, bike ride, whatever it is, sounds like tody is the dao do it. for more we'll check in with lauryn rickett who's tracking the beautiful weathe i was thi looks so beautiful on the potomac riv right now. if you're getting up and out early, getting down on the potomac river, perfect morning to do that. it was a perfect sunrise. the sun is coming up at 6:05 this morning, i posted a picture about three minutes before that sunrise. but lookt it now. i mean, it's gorgeous out there right now. you should have seen it this morning if you weren't with us. beautifue hues of som oranges and yellows outre the and the reflection on the potomac was undescribaowe. this is h it's going to look throughout the day today. gorgeous conditions out there. temperatures also comfo

it happened on powder mill road and beltsville drive and our meagan fitzgerald is there live. >> we know three vehicles were involved in a cash after 2:00 this morning on powder mill road. want to show you how intense this scene it. it appeues the roof on that bl car was cut off. you can see pieces of the vehicle scattered all over the roadway here. we know two people were extracted from a car. a total ofe seven peopl were rushed to the spital. one person has life-threatening injuries. now i want to draw your attention to this vehicle here nob mill road. this is the third streak involved in the crash. it's still early in the investigation. we talked to police about what would have led up to this and they are still investigating but we know seven people are in the fightingand one person for their life at this hour. a no fatalitiesthis time but the roadway is still blocked off as police continue to investigate. back to you. re really awful scene t behind you. thanks so much, meagan. >>> a lot of folks inc. d. waking up without water. they are work to go repair an eight-inch water main in t

meagan fitzgerald is live on the scene. what are you seeing?>> the westbound lane of the outer loop is backed up for several miles. you can get an idea of what we are seeing here. first responders scene here. just within the last a couple of minutes, we have seen some vehicles turning around going the opposite direction on the westbnd lane of the outer loop here. seemingly because maryland state police tell us tis could be several hours as they investigate this crash. here is what we know. it was just before 4:00 when a single vehicle was going down the westbound lane here of the outer loop just before university boulevard when it somehow lost control of their vehicle, crashing up against the guardrail, up against the wall andi los control of the vehicle. we kn that that person w taken to the hospital but at this hour, it's still unclear as to what their condition is. we can tell you that the westbound lane of the outer loop is slow moving, if at all, at this hour. back to you. here is a big problem. chopper 4 showing you the inner loue after c

. >> i'm meagan fitzgerald.are expecting more showers today after a very rainy aturday evening. >> a lot of lightning and thunder, too. check it out. the rain was coming down. this is video from nats park am after the te beat the royals. they were lucky to get the gamer in befe the heavy rain started warning. we saw severe thunderstorm warnings as well. >> it was a soaker. rain slammed eastern market. and lightning sparked flames at a home and more thunderstorms could be moving through again today. butelhere is some rf in sight. lauryn ricketts is standing by tracking the weather. good morning, >lauryn. good morning. >> where is this relief we speak of? >> it's not coming until late tomorro night. we'll get it. yeah, it's coming. now, listen, it's going to be humid as we get into your tuesday and wednesda the humidity will drop off little bit wednesday night. et not going to -- if you haven be outside just know it is really thick humidity out there right now. we are seeing the cloud cover. look at that. yeah, we

i'm meagan fitzgerald, we'rein trackthe latest developments of this tropical storm barry and how theould affect us here in d.c. we'll check in with lauryn ricketts who is keep ago close eye on this storm as is headed towards louisiana. >> it should be making landfall in the next hour or two but it is moving so slowly. it sped up fom three miles to about five miles during the overnight hours. and so we're going to continue to watch that as it churns through the deep south and then eventually takes a turn towards themid-atlantic. so we will see somets remnan of barry but it looks likee at som heint later on next week. beautiful out tre right now. clear skies,unny ies. we're going to have a gorgeous day out there today. if you're thinking about getting your car washed on this saturday, go for it. we've got some dry conditions, not only today, but all throughout the weekend. and then we also have dry coitions as we continue into next week. current temperatures out there right now not bad. lower to mid-60s in the sh shenandoah valley, lower 70s along i-95. let's talk about this. we've got

news 4's meagan fitzgerald has their story. >> this is a very qet residential commuerty. >> repo the last five years bet ed rhodes and her husband have considered independent avenue in southeast home and feel comfortable and purchased this security camera to be safe and this morning they captured this, a man walking on to her yard, tearing down her pride flag andt slamming up against her gate while hurling homophobic slurs. >> we just ripped it completely off. >> reporter: rhodes showed us the broken pole that she found lying on theround when she returned home this morning. >> to hear him just be so disgusted and have such violent verbal reaction to a flag was really discouraging. >> reporter: she sa she and her husband were flying the flag to show support for pride month in a community that has been the target a ofs of violence here in d.c. and across the country. >> just for anybody walking by to know that this is a house ere you're safe and supported and we're trying to fight for you and for everybody else to -- to be equal. >> reporter: while rhodes is upset by the man's criminal

news 4's meagan fitzgerald spok to the columnist about his terrifying incident.te >> repor leonard spitz an award-winning journalist for "the miami herald" based in prince george's county. >> pulitzer prize, commentary 2004. this is the citation. >> reporter: b he's also a full-time grandpa. >> you know i know how to put my seat up. porter: on sunday morning just before 5:00, he temporarily became a murder suspect. >> never beenst arred, and technically wasn't arrested then and never had handcuffs on before. >> reporter: pitts was sleeping wh his phone rang. was bowie police calling after a 911 callerhe contacted about a crime happening inside pitts' home. >> the caller on the line stated that he had murdered his wife and that he was going toho the police when they arrived on the scene. the caller gave the address in the 500 block of nebraska lane. >> the caller gave pitts' address so poli called asking him to com >> they brought me out to right about here. put my cell phone down right about here. >> putting him in handcuffs before getting his granddaughter, daughter and wife marilyn out

i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'mso adam tuss.lief from the summer heat today. >> it was hot yesterday. looks like it might be a little hotter today? >> yeah, a degree or two. we were 89 degrees yesterday. so here in.c. that didn't start the heat wave. we have to have three or more consecutive days at or abovefo a heat wave. but don't worry. just in case you were counting, i think we will manage to make it into the 90s the next several days, which will constitute a heat wave. hot as two weeks ago. but again it's going to be warm. we had a lonely shower to cool us off. same deal today, a

news 4's meagan fitzgerald has more on an undercover investigation thatound local businesses sellingry. >> reporter: d.c. has been branded as the hub for the sale of ivory which in turn she says is encouragin the slaughter of these animals, and that'sme ing that she's trying to stock market the councilwoman, along with leader at the humane society, showed an undercover video exposing what they are calling illegal activity happening in d.c. hitting cameras to local vendors and antique shops and selling tusks inside their stores. many pieces of ivory are carved into statues and test tu humane society of the united states says these salesteorial sales at local sores are happening without any documentation to show that it's legal ivory that they are selling. >> this is to ban the domestic sale of ivory and rhino horns. it's got to stop. these animals are being slaughtered for their parts. the federal government has saids that this unacceptable, yet there isn't the strength within the district to actually stop the interstate sale of these pr ucts, and our investigators found ivory all ove

dealing with drama and wounds that they could not have imagined, and they are talking about it to meagan fitzgerald stay right there. we'll join you in just a fewnd join us for all the day's news on a >>> a dream one for queen tennis sensation came to a close today. 15-year-old coco gauff was eliminated in her frth round match at wimbledon. >> but there were other american women still live. >>nbc's blayne alexander reports from across the pond. >> really, really terrific. >> reporter: is a-year-old coco gauff, her cinderella run came to an end earlier today on the court. she was knocked out, eliminated in round four by sona halep. now, that's a playerho came in seeded number seven and has twice been ranked number one in the world. so certainly notun a bad for the is a-year-old. her very first time at wimbledon, the youngest player ever to qualify now being knocked out in the round of 16. >> somebody told me this maybe three weeks ago i probably wouldn't believeit. i'm so excited to see if i continue to work hard to see what other success i can do in the future. >> but there is certainly a lot the t

i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'm adam tuss. thank you so much for starting your day with us.rm one today, inching up higher towards possibly a heat wave. >> because yesterday was hot. >> yeah. >> today going to be hotter. what we didn't have yesterday is the humidity. you are saying that coming back today a little bit? >> a little bit. you will feel touches out there today and then it will start to really seep in heading into your monday and then by tuesday all bets are off. the heat and humidity are going to be around. we will keep that humidity going all the way to the end of the work week and possibly into the weekend. let's take a look outside right now. beautiful view from our national harbor camera. you can see blue skies out there. pretty quiet, tranquil. it's delightful. it's pleasan right now. not feeling too terrible out there right now given the humidity at the low levels. temperatures are in the 70 78 is our temperature right now. southerly wind coming in at about six miles an hour. that will help increase that humidy little bylittle, especially heading into the a

. >> meagan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> 5:49 now happening today, more than a million people in our region wie travel for th fourth of july. >> that means you can see heavy traffic on the roads starting today. news 4 justin fince is liv on i-95 now in our traffic cam with what you need to know before you go. justin, good morning. >> reporter: ey there,eun, aaron, gwe're on 95making our ways the h wou andts is a e trav ngy find someaffic backup we can tell you people are holiday weekend. going to be a 4% higher number than last year, but that's a small jump, but it means a lot more people. so here is what you need to know that most of those travelers are going to drive. if you are, too, be aware. your busiest tra day will be that sunday which will be a return day for a lot of us between 10: a.m. and noon. in that mix, you have your cationers as well as church goers and others. it will go for a slow mix once h gets together. your miles perr can drop down to just under 30 on parts of 95. aaa says with your slow spots very likely to be along 270, route 50 and the beltway. coming out back flive

i'm meagan fitzgerald. >> i'm cory smith. as you said, a beautiful sunday. a little humid, but that is life the dmv in the summertime. we are also tracking barry down on the gulf coast. let's send it right over to lorm team4 meteorologiauryn ricketts with the very latest on barry. >> yeah, the latest on barry, guys, still a tropical storm. still winds at 45 miles an hour and continues to push into the i coast of louisiana right now and it's going to continue to do so. i would say at least for the next 24 hours before it really starts to make that trek north. now, one thing i want to mention, i believe it's going to y a tropical depressionthe day's end, but still a lot of rain to get through and to get through louisiana and into the deep south. scooting up to the midwest and out to the mid-atlantic. we could see remnants of barry u later on ar here. right now a little haze out there. we definitely have some blue skies. not that bad. my camera is gone and not looking too good. the temperature is at 77 degrees. the pool forecast today, definitely find somebody

good morning to you i am meagan fitzgerald.t with a developing story, an overnight fire forced six people o of lee townhouse as firefighters were c to the home in upperro marlbo. the fire started on the deck bus did notead to neighboring homes. and this morning, the van that wasow swall when the woodbridge road caved in has been pulled out of the massive ho. intense rain flooded the pipe causing the ground above t collapse. the shot shows how daged princedale road really is. it will take at least two weeks to be refilled and reopened. more storms are brewing. stay with us. lauryn will be back with a look at your forecast woi'm blue and i'm an ironrker. work is empowering... ...but brutal on my skin... ...i use the dove beauty bar.d it gets riof all the dirt... ...while still nouriing my skin. it helps me retain my natural beauty... ...to be both strong and beautiful at the same time. dove cleans and cares beautifully. we all care about amazing tastee that's why we'vemaking the best mayonnaise for over 100 years. hellmann's. we'

. >> i'm meagan fitzgerald. we are expecting more showers today after a rainy saturday evening. the rain really came down yesterday. take a look at this video from nats park after the shutout win from the royals. they ere lucky to finish the game before this heavy rain started coming down. we saw severe thunderstorm warnings all night long as aill. >> r just slammed eastern market and arlington fire tellsa home moanre tndstorms coh agryugaiov mg rothinn tt us >> lauryn, what can we >> well, we are looking at some more rain showers coming our way. it is cong our waynumerous show thunderstorms coming our way. that was as advertised yesterday. saw a few showers and thunderstorms. especially tomorrow night. so we are looking at more showers today. numerous showers. be weather ready. we have weather t alert outre for today. now, we have got a mix of sun and clouds out there this morning. it is muggy out there. hose temperatures are the mid-70s right now. so againrs going we through the morning hours, but better chances some nerous o fa region heading into the afternoon and into the e