melissa: i love that idea.very big deal if a show wins then all of a sudden everyone goes or a nomination, what is that process like, the campaign in hollywood where they campaign for oscars? >> no, we have 50 almost anonymous tony nominators, they go they see everything with opening nightcast. and then they meet in a smoke -- previously smoke-filled room, there are people from theater from peg -- professionals of all shapes and sizes. melissa: do the actors and people who put the plays on on know who these people are, is it a secret? >> a semi secret. we announced it at one point but i don't think that people keep it in the front of their brain. they are so ethical, if they miss a show they recuse themselves for the whole season. melissa: the winners? cristoy ball? i don't know. melissa: what do you think? >> i can't say. melissa: the favorites. >> i think they would say, the actor is between alex sharp in a musical, and the fellow in puppet play. steven brerier . then it is kelly o'hara versus christian cheno

melissa. melissa: that is amazing. how long will it take for victims to clear their names and credit records following this breach, gerri? >> months and months and months. credit monitoring which is what the irs is offering to people with a problem usually lasts only a year. experts say it could take years as the new kinds of identity theft happen, taking out information or taking out social security numbers. taking out medicare, medicaid from the government. putting their arms right into the treasury. this could go on for years and years. melissa? melissa: gerri, thank you so much. >> so welcome. david: it is fodder for republicans. gop has number of candidates that punched their tickets for the upcoming republican primary election. neil cavuto is in orlando for the economic summit with candidates racing for the white house. more from orlando, neil? >> if i had to sum up what this whole orlando summit came down to, it was about job, how you get more jobs, generating jobs, good-paying jobs. when all is said and done, f

melissa, over to you. melissa: new concerns over the irs.gency is reportedly raking in plenty of cash despite complaining of budget cuts. gerri willis in the newsroom with this one. gerri. >> you got that right. you remember koskinen, the commissioner of the irs, john koskinen hue the smaller budget is really hurting what he is doing. he told congress not too long ago, we estimate the agency will lose through attrition, 1800 key enforcement personnel through 2015 that we will not be able to replace. we anticipate the outcome will be fewer audits, fewer resources focused on collection. we estimate as a result of these cuts, the government will lose at least $2 billion in revenue. melissa, we took a look at this. we dug into the numbers. what we found, there are two major enforcement units in the irs. one the 400 field operations offices all over the country and their automated collections service. yes, they put together less money. they collected less money, $200 million less. but that is nothing like the $2 billion that john koskinen was tal

david: melissa? melissa: breaking news.ohn malone eyeing content consolidation according to to "the wall street journal." liberty media's chairman is examining ways to consolidate studios and smaller channels, adding a union between lions gate and starz or even discovery could be in the mix. >>> fifa in free fall. more officials linked to the organization are now facing corruption charges. while the fbi investigates russia and qatar's world cup bids. >>> our exclusive report, "cash for slackers." they are fighting over personal email and putting the country's national security at risk? the details next. ♪ shriek with joy. until, inhibition creeps in, our world gets smaller, quieter, but life should be loud. sing loud, play loud, love loud. dentures shouldn't keep you quiet, life should be ringing in your ears. live loud, polident. "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft clo

. >> hey, melissa. sources close to the situation tell individuals here at fox business ceo rupert murdoch is expected to hand his ceo role to his son, james murdoch. rupert would then become the executive chairman. according to those sources, his older son is expected to be named executive co-chair. now, chase kerry, the current chief operating officer, is likely to step into a new advisory role in the near future. no timeline has been shared for this transition just yet, but a spokesperson says the matter of succession itself is on the agenda at their upcoming regularly-scheduled board meeting. this succession plan, of course, began unfolding last year when james murdoch was brought on as co-coo and lack land as nonexecutive chairman. fox business and fox news are, of course, owned by 21st century fox, and the networks' chairman and ceo, roger ailes, says he expects to continue reporting directly to rupert murdoch. we're watching that investor reaction. shares sank a little bit, about 1% on the news,

melissa: wow.id: coming up, surprising number of states with americans still struggling to find work after the recession which many people say never ended. melissa: hmmm. how much do you have in your emergency account? a new report shows that many americans have zero savings. oh, boy. we'll be right back. ♪ it's a highly thercontagious disease.here. it can be especially serious- even fatal to infants. unfortunately, many people who spread it may not know they have it. it's called whooping cough. and the cdc recommends everyone, including those around babies, make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. understand the danger your new grandchild faces. talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your family getting a whooping cough vaccination today. new york state is reinventing by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates on personal income taxes. we enacted the lowest corporate tax rate since 1968. we eliminated the income tax on manufacturers altogether. with startup-ny, qual

melissa. melissa: reporting fourth quarter results. ashley webster on the floor of the new york stock exchange for us. ashley, what are you seeing? >> hey, melissa. we have a miss on both the earnings and revenue. the estimate for oracle fourth quarter was 86 cents on the eps, the earnings per share. it came in at 78 cents. revenue estimated at 10.92 billion. that number coming in at 10.71 billion. so again both a miss on the earnings and the revenue. the stock as you can see moving lower, down more than 4% now in after-hours trade. melissa: all right. ashly, thank you so much for that. >> my pleasure. melissa: the days of corrupt hiring at the faa might be numbered. scrutinizing faa hiring practices following fox business's report. the inspector general of the department of transportation is now on the case. the d.o.t. initiated its audit shortly after the faa announced an internal probe. adam shapiro has the insider information what is next for the faa, adam. >> let's put this in perspective, yesterday, it was just announced today, t

melissa? melissa: wow, chaos, confusion, i don't like any of this. peter, thank you so much. david: we're going to stay on it throughout the hour. before the evacuations at the white house, press sect josh earnest addressed what we talked about yesterday, the snub heard throughout the world. iraqi's prime minister edged out by a trio of world leaders including president barack obama at a g7 summit in germany. all captured on videotape. leaders appear to be unaware of the iraqi leaders presence, josh earnest says the president has all the communication he needs with prime minister abadi. >> i think those who concluded it was a snub were probably telegraphing insecurities dating bag to junior high. the fact is the president completed a long working lunch that included prime minister abadi, and the president was engaged in conversations with the imf director and others. david: i don't know, pictures don't lie. melissa: amazing. closing in on the two murderers on the loose. the latest on the braze

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melissa?elissa: dzhokhar tsarnaev was sentenced today and the 20 union -- 21-year-old apologizing to the victims about the pain he caused to them two years ago. a victim spoke earlier about the insincerity about his words. >> he threw in an apology to the survivors that seemed insincere and just thrown in because he was supposed to. he ended again with allah talking about leniency, implying we should be now lenient to him because allah says so. melissa: joining me, harris faulkner fox report kang or on sunday nights and host of "outnumbered." the fabulous harris faulkner. >> you were on earlier today. deja vu all over again. melissa: after the show i watched this. these people were furious with him, furious. >> so the first two victims we heard from, the survivors, melissa, had hidden injuries they wanted to talk to the world about today. this was their opportunity to do this. it was indicated from what they were saying that they might not have taken such a wide opportunity to do this had he n

melissa. (?) melissa: a few other stories on our radar.nounced today that it is staying the course on oil production. pumping about 30 million barrels a day for the next six months. us safety regulators are investigating a brake problem with jeep's grand cherokee. david, can you take over? david: in particular, 20,000 of these vehicles from 2014 model year. this comes after nine complaints from drivers of automatic braking for no apparent reason. all the controversy surrounding fifa, we're learning its staff in switzerland are among surprise, surprise, the highest paid employees in the country. average pay and compensation, $242,000 per person last year. that's -- by the way, melissa, without any of the perks. melissa: my hero. did you see him save me there? what a gentleman. thank you so much. this is what's great about having a partner. >> hey, it's friday. we count on each other. melissa: we will tell you the best cities for jobs and to call home for relocating. my parents on fox & friends earlier. i was joined by the next julia child.

melissa? melissa: all right. thank you.e rachel dolezal is breaking her silence for the first time since being accused of lying about her race for years while working as a naacp spokane, washington, chapter president. dolezal resigned from her leadership post yesterday but continues to defend her actions, refusing to say she lied about her race. melissa: listen to what she told matt lauer on "the today show"? >> are you an african-american woman? >> i identify as black. i was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and the black, you know black curly hair, you know, yeah, that was how i was portraying myself. melissa: right. but her parents, larry and ruth ann, joining "america's newsroom," didn't remember it that way at all. >> did she identify as black since the age of five? >> no. that is a fabrication. that is false. that did not happen. she has never done that, anything like that as a child. she, you know, was used to relating to people of diversity but she did not ever portray herself

rather, melissa the dnc said, debate is settled. melissa. melissa: thanks so much, blake. numerous health care stocks rallying on the supreme court ruling. several names hit lifetime highs. this list is dominated by hospital operators, like community health systems and universal health services. health care services and equipment stocks that focused on infant care like med vacs which provides neonatal services. not a hue r new lifetime how, check out tenet, hospital operator ending the day way in the green. let's bring in scott martin, united advisors, a fox news contributor. what do you think of health care stocks at these levels? >> i still like them. today's ruling, melissa, adds to the story. way we play this, is an etf, xlv as in victor. it has everything you mentioned, some providers, drugmakers, some medical device companies. certainly some of the hospitals. you're getting the best of everything. i think big beneficiary here is providers. think about it as demand goes up, as subsidies continued to be confirmed for so many americans, guess what happens? the demand fo

melissa? melissa: new warning on the dangers of isis here in the u.s. 19-year-old north carolina man is arrested, is under arrest for planning to quote, gun down a large number of citizens in attacks to support isis. that is the 10th arrest of an isis supporter here at home just this past month, 10 in this past month. our next guest warns that isis could be winning the war. joining me with his perspective, john mcglothlin, former cia deputy director. let me start with the latest reports. seems to me we've seen some come under arrest now for suspicion of working with isis online but we haven't seen attacks to the homeland of the does that mean at least in that sense, in the detection of threats here at home we're winning? >> well i think we're getting much better at this, because we've had a lost practice since 9/11 and all of our agencies are tuned up to do this. what i would say though is, that the volume of threats is increasing dramatically, and could really tax our ability to keep up with them. you just mentioned that we've had 10 of these in the la

melissa. melissa: apple is expected to announce -- streaming music service at its developer's -- to directly compete with spotify and pandora. in fact, when the news came out this afternoon around 2:20, look at shares of pandora. they fell off a cliff and struggled for the remainder of the day. david: all right. it is the deal of the day. intel buying a small arrival, altira. $16.7 billion. it will allow intel to expand beyond ships for personal computers into hotter markets like smart cars. it continues a wave of expansion. a 17 billion-dollar deal between abago and broad come. >> rand paul delaying a final vote on the patriot act causing key provisions to expire. (?) blake burman is in d.c. with the details. >> the senate -- monday afternoon. it resumed the debate over the usa freedom act. >> it falls on all of us to work diligently and responsibly to get the american people the best outcome that can be reasonably expected. in this reality. >> senators addressed that bill as hours later thre

melissa. melissa: two escaped murderers still on the loose now. the link between prison worker joyce mitchell and two escaped convicts in upstate new york is getting closer. prosecutors said she gave them a legal item. the manhunt has stretched now into the seventh day. david lee. david: that's right, melissa. this was a significant development. we heard from the district attorney today. he confirmed, joyce mitchell did bring into the prison a number of items that were contraband. he would not however say what those items were. the list of banned items in the prison -- joyce did not provide the inmates. that was the powered tools they used in the escape. >> joyce mitchell, based on our investigation has not provided power tools. she has not provided any form of power tools to either sweat or matt. >> a source confirms that mitchell did agree to provide the transportation for the two inmates, but at the last minute changed her mind. in another development, authorities are looking into the possibility of joyce mitchell also bringing contraband into

melissa: wow.acare cleared a second major hurtle at the supreme court but troubles may be far from over. the court's decision to uphold insurance subsidies is a win for the obama administration. the law is highly unpopular for americans and a host of legal and political challenges remain. joining me grace marie turner is an expert on obamacare, at least four issues related are sorted out in the courts? is it like this? like what we just saw? >> i think supreme court justice roberts has indicated that he really does not want to deal with this issue anymore. he's had it with obamacare, whatever case you bring to him he's going to decide that obamacare is going to stand. but there are specific targeted cases that don't address the core of the law. the little sisters of the core on religious liberty issues. if you see cases that reach the supreme court, they're going to be external to the substance of what obamacare does, which is extend coverage, and he is going to say basically send this back to the

melissa: talk about that.e hit hong that right away he does have a strong record on financial matters and cut taxes by $19 billion, vetoed a $2 billion of spending and that is really differentiates himself who was not as fiscally conservative edge as those on the rights would have liked. how will he be able to make that differentiation? >> that would resonate with the base and to take a shot at marco rubio i have actually governed. i have made hard choices and balance the budget each year. that is an entry point. melissa: he also went down the road of common core. but received he was distancing himself that the decision should not be made at the federal level but instead to bring in the idea of a charter school he was the first in the nation to put one into place but then was taken away by the courts woody distance himself? gimmicky through the gauntlet down with immigration and that he embraced fully and speaking house spanish was a testament to that but how with common core you are right. talked-about teache

but melissa is not naive. neither history nor demographics are on her side as a republican in this overwhelmingly democratic city, so can she overcome all of that -- history and demographics? we're gonna ask her. melissa, last week we welcomed your democratic opponent jim kenney. today we say welcome to you to "inside story." >> thanks so much for having me. >> good to have you here. let's be blunt, maybe even painfully so. as i mentioned, not a lot of people have heard your name before, except in news coverage, in the last couple of weeks. so, let's start with this. who is melissa murray bailey? >> yeah. so, i moved to the city a couple of years ago. growing up in south jersey looking to philadelphia, it was always kind of the place you went when you made it. so, when i had my family and we decided to settle down, we chose philadelphia. unlike a lot of people who choose to move out when they have children, we decided to move in and come to the city. over the past 15 years, i've been working at companies and h

bob. >> hello, melissa. we're waiting for word from the world's largest indexing firm, msci, which will rule momentarily on whether shares in mainland china will be included in the firm's global indexing scheme which is used by fund managers and etf providers around the world. msc sxichlt other indeckers already include hong kong stocks in their indices but they don't include the much bigger mainland china market. that's because authorities there have previously restricted ownership of mainland china stock to chinese citizens. that's all now changing. the question is whether it's changing enough to satisfy msci and other indexers. this is a big deal for a simple reason. indexers rule the world. many investors are increasingly investing through these indexes, which are used in the 1600 etfs that are traded every day in the u.s. and talked about here on cnbc. it could be billions of dollars come out of other emerging market countries like brazil and south africa and flow into mainland china stocks. let's take

we're here with melissa mccarthy.you. i try. >> jimmy: you don't hold back. >> well -- >> jimmy: you don't hold back. it's good. >> you're not a shrinking violet, yourself. i have to say. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you very much. talk is cheap. so let's put our instincts to the test. it's time for "random picture word association!" ♪ random picture word association ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: all right. >> wow. >> jimmy: now, here's how it works. >> thank god you had a button. >> jimmy: yeah, i have a a button. i have my very own button. that's what happens when you get a talk show. [ laughter ] we're each going to take turns pressing the button here, which will generate a random picture up on the screen. >> okay. >> jimmy: after the picture shows up, we have to yell out the first thing that pops into our heads, but you can't just say what the image is. like if it's a pineapple, you can't say pineapple. >> pineapple. >> jimmy: no, you can't say that. >> no. i was kidding. i'm not an idiot. >> jimmy: yeah, al

melissa? >> right now some problems on metro, delays on the blue and yellow lines because of an earlier problem on the green line. and then remember that water main break problem now has closed a school. this is alabama avenue at stanton road in southeast. >>> thanks, melissa. it's 6:47 and the "today" show is coming up next at 7:00. >> nbc's gabe gutierrez has new developments in the on going scandal involving former house speaker dennis hastert. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the mystery surrounding what allegedly happened here at the yorkville high school several decades ago is only deepening. more members of dennis hastert's former wrestling squad are coming forward and expressing disbelief against him. hastert is charged with trying to evade federal banking requirements and lying to the fbi but a source tells nbc news that the alleged conduct he was trying to cover up with was sexual in nature. now a sister of steve reinboldt is coming forward. now, hastert it's been a week sinc

melissa now looking at an update this morning. >> update on the crash. we have some live pictures from the scene for you. this is in clinton, old alexandria ferry road. take a look. you can see the tow truck on the scene. this is is a fatal crash from overnight. already closed overnight. they have flipped the car, trying to get it out of the way to reopen things. your best bet for an alternative is woodyard. 95 virginia, lorton road, everything is moving just fine. and 270 at montrose, again, looking good. whether you're headed from frederick or to frederick. not having any big issues this morning. a wide look at the beltway, overall, fingers crossed things are looking good this morning. back in ten minutes with a live a look at 66. >> thanks, melissa. >>> four tourists in malaysia may face jail time for posing naked at the country's highest peak. this happened days before a deadly earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain. they were not shy in sharing those naked photos. some malaysians say the disrespectful act angered the spirits of the mountain a

melissa: as usual, mrs. clinton is deflecting from the talk about her own finances to talk about a 15-dollar minimum wage. she must feel like it's a winning issue for her. it must be working. >> you're absolutely right, melissa. this is a chance for hillary clinton to say, look, i'm not paying attention to these negative stories. instead, she's trying to focus on kitchen table issues. have we heard that before? bill clinton during impeachment. i won't focus on these attacks. i'll go back to work for the american people. hillary clinton calling in to a union forum in detroit where they were talking about the minimum wage. which you referred to. if you look at that new york times piece, saying that hillary clinton's strategy is to not worry about the middle. not campaign like her husband, instead, focus on the blue states and hit issues like the minimum wage on the left so she can really get the turnout, not just in the primaries, but potentially in the general election and try to rebuild that obama coalition

meteorologist melissa magee has a first check of your accu weather forecast, melissa. >> yes czar, we have had a nice finish to our weekend and dryer as you mentioned as well after that torrential rain for our saturday. temperatures are definitely responding to the sunshine we had out earlier today and we have wind coming from the west/southwest making a difference. it is 77 in the city at this hour. seventy-two in reading. seventy-nine there in beach haven. this 24 hour temperature change is 12 degrees warmer in philadelphia then it was this same time yesterday. 14 degrees warmer in reading then we were just 24 hours ago. we will talk about what is ahead, it gets comfortable for us back to work on monday, but we are tracking storms on tuesday and believe it or not fourth of july, is next saturday. we've got the early call from accu weather and what you can expect. i'll have those details with the full, exclusive accu weather forecast. >>> melissa, thank you. >>> for the very latest on the forecast as you start your workweek, check out six abc to the come/weather. our live storm track

but for you we'll send it over to melissa. what's the latest? >> we have this closure in north potomac. all lanes blocked as that investigation continues. we'll let you know when that area has reopened for the morning commute. 66 west of ox road no problems. eastbound or westbound. everything looking quite good this morning. again, in alexandria we have a blockage here. this is north beauregard at north arm astead. same thing when you look at prince george's county. back at 4:41. >>> a developing story now. tourists are dead from a cruise ship in alaska. they were out on a sightseeing excursion. flying on a small float plane. take a look at the location here. southeast alaska is where the plane crashed. it crashed into a granite rock. nine people are dead. including the pilot. they were sailing on the westerdam, a seven-day cruise that left seattle on saturday. aaron? >> all right, kristin, thank you. >>> 4:32 now. he began preaching at 13. he was ordained at 18 and today a funeral will be held for 42-year-old clementa pinckney. he was a state s

melissa. >> that hurts, gyre rei thank you. over to you. >> still ahead fitbit still on a tear a day after the massive ipo any fear of a one trick pony. debate coming up next. a real good thing shares of martha stuart living on the media soaring as the diva considering giving up her empire selling it all. details straight ahead. >> so fitbits ipo sure hit the ground running no sign of stopping for the wearkt tech giants after jumping 50% in the debut yesterday. here now to discuss whether this is just a fad or not of capital big huge fend fox news contradict tore also senior editor jack. i'll let you go first. bad or fabulous? >> i think it is -- i guess a fad this is a company that is commodity hardware company a difference between this and apple watch i don't have that much confidence in this version of the apple watch maybe to get better. but clearly and ecosystem with apple that people want to be part of. software apps with this you have a piece of hardware and a lot of competition out there. without ecosystem there's no re

tonight -- melissa mccarthy.my award winning actor, robert duvall -- author, hanya yanagihara. featuring the 8g band with jon theodore. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, everybody. i'm seth myers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] good to hear. any soccer fans? any soccer fans here tonight? [ cheers and applause ] well, the big news today -- there's some big news in the world of soccer after the arrest of numerous other officials. fifa president, sepp blatter, announced his resignation this afternoon. i will say -- [ applause ] yeah. i have to say sepp blatter doesn't sound like the name of a guy who's stepping down. it sounds like the reason. [ laughter ] [ applause ] all of this stress is giving me a bad case of sepp blatter. jeb bush, a lot of talk about 2016. a lot of candidates saying that the things jeb bush said this weekend, that he has learned from his brother's successes, which i say is

bring your dreams to life. >>> now, melissa magee with an owe closer look at the weekend. just saturday? >> it will get bad during the afternoon and evening hours but sunday there is an improvement. always hope. stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing you it's dry right now we had showers early this morning during the overnight hours and early this morning and now all of that activity moving offshore, it's mostly cloudy and we have breaks of sunshine we'll show you the picture outside sky 6 hd looking at the center city skyline, a thick deck of cloud cover overhead but as this disturbance passes us to the south and east it breaks for sunny breaks today. 76 in slatington and pottstown 78 and center city 80 degrees and martins creek 79 and down across new jersey, ewing 81 and lower 70s for smyrna and dover. here is satellite 6 along with action radar you can see that is the disturbance we had early this morning and during the overnight hours that exits stage east, but what we are tracking is this cluster of energy from the midwest and pressing into the ohio valley and

melissa what's going on on the road? >> as far as the downed trees got word from kristin wright, macarthur boulevard and clara barton, that's cleared out of the way. no more downed tree. rock creek parkway at massachusetts avenue we have a reports of a tree down. that sounds like the clean-up there is underway and not blocking everything as first reported there. 66 and 95 don't have any big problems there on 66 or 95. taking a look at 29 b.w. parkway here and 95 into and out of town everything there is actually looking quite good. no major problems and remember, again, in northwest, beach drive right there near the zoo, we have the northbound lanes blocked because of a report of multiple potholes and some fixes happening here this morning. back at 5:11. >> see you then, melissa, thank you. a developing story, a patient is at the national institutes of health in bethesda with a rare drug resistant type of tuberculosis. that woman flew from india to the chicago o'hare airport. she was here for seven weeks and then travelle

meteorologist melissa magee is keeping an eye on both a tornado watch and flood watch tonight. she has latest with storm tracker six live double scan radar, melissa. >> we will start with that tornado watch that has been issued for kent county in delaware. watch stays up until 8:00 o'clock tonight. dover you are included and that tornado watch. what we are tracking is a warm front that will lift to the north and as it does so there is possibility of finding some rotation, with any thunderstorm that does move on through. isolated tornado cannot be ruled out this evening especially, south of philadelphia across central and southern delaware. here's storm tracker six live double scan radar. the rain is inundating much of the delaware and lehigh val which stronger pockets in south jersey but i do wanting to in tighter on street level with storm tracker six live double scan and you can see along that i-95 corridor from trenton into philadelphia and wilmington we are dealing with moderate pockets of rainfall. same thing traveling to the north of the sit a long i-76 to the north of mo

back in a few. >>> thanks, melissa. in news4 your health now, children are taken to the hospital every year for concussion, but now new systems to treat brain injuries. when a person has a head injury some of the mental faculties are injured or slowed. this system helps to retrain the brain with a game-like whack a mole. >> it overwhelms the brain in a very good way and gives you that really good training effect. >> experts emphasize this is one treatment program out of many to help those with concussions. and one other positive for it, it can be fun for kids. >>> doctors discovered a blood test that could discover cancer. researchers in england found abnormal cells while checking pregnant mothers' blood. the women with abnormal cells had -- they all had cancer. the researchers say this discovery could lead to new noninvasive ways to test for cancer in the future. >>> your cell phone may be great for taking selfies and texting, but it may not be the best choice for documenting your family's summer vacations. one way to

. >>> thank you, melissa. you may keep to keep your umbrella handy as our storm team 4 tracks some scattered morning showers. rolling across d.c. right now. tom kierein is here with what you can expect as you leave for work. >> good morning. a few scattered light sprinkles on storm team 4 radar. little patches of green in washington in through central fairfax county. a few sprinkles in prince william and fauquier. elsewhere, drizzle falling. radar has a real problem picking up the tiny drizzle drops but we are getting a few of those. the low clouds are passing over under these clouds. in the mid 50s much of the region. little bit of a northeast breeze. these gray skies are not going to clear up but put on a happy face anyway. a live view from the city camera. for the morning commute, midday driving, afternoon caution lights because we'll likely have some damp pavement, wet pavement around because of these areas of patchy drizzle. we'll be hovering in the upper 50s. getting back home from work and school, shoul

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over to melissa. >> we have a slow down on 270 southbound. nothing major there as you're passing the montgomery county bus lot and remember 95 northbound at dale city, a slow area. especially with this brand new crash. aaron and eun? >>> thanks, melissa. >> it's time to move the flag from the capitol grounds. >> that is south carolina governor nikki haley calling for the removal of the confederate flag on state house grounds. it comes less than a week after a 21-year-old white man gunned down nine black people inside a church. today, religious and political leaders are pressing lawmakers to choose to stay in session next week so they can te this issue. a number of leading republicans and democrats say now is the time to do away with the flag. and nbc's craig melvin is live in south carolina following this debate. so craig, good morning. does this removal seem likely now? >> reporter: well, you know what, eun, that's the million dollar question. i grew up in this city, i worked here and i lived here most of my life i lived 15 minutes away actu

, down the shore temperatures in the 70s, a great place to go to beat the heat and meteorologist, melissa magee is there and will have our forecast for the shore in a few moments. philadelphia 91 degrees and allentown 88 and wilmington 88 and millville 88 and you can see with the winds off the ocean the ocean temperature is 65 degrees on the beaches temperatures in the low 70s, add the humidity the heat index the way it feels 94 in philadelphia and trenton and 92 in wilmington and dover 96 degrees and the heat will be higher tomorrow and the humidity will be higher as well. satellite 6 along with action radar showing we are not getting a lot of relieve in the form of showers, one isolated one with this fronts and we have to wait for one from the west on saturday and that will bring us relief from the heat, the next 12 hours warm and humid and a stray evening thunderstorm north of philadelphia, 67 degrees and 73 for center city a warm night and tomorrow the heat is on a heat advisory is posted along the i-95 corridor from noon until 8:00, this is where the heat index the way it feels is so

meteorologist melissa magee.e i mentioned before some potentially unstable conditions. >> especially if you're west ever city tomorrow and it's as we get into late evening and into tomorrow night. we'll talk about details walter and stormtracker 6 live double scan radar showing you it's dry tonight and this picture will likely change as we get into tomorrow night as we're tracking unsettled weather moving east ward. so we'll show you picture outside this is place to be. look at all these folks enjoying gorgeous saturday night at the spruce street harbor park and you can see we've got a partly to mostly cloudy sky and things lighting up and looks fantastic. enjoy if you are outside this saturday. was not as hot today as past couple days. thursday high of 92 and yesterday hottest day so far this year at 95. and today in philadelphia not a heat wave because we need three straight days temperatures in 90s to have that and we came in at 88 and above average of 8 for this time of we're year. it's 80 currently in philad

>> no, that was my sneeze. >> thank you, melissa. >> thanks, melissa. >>> developing news right now, millions of government workers attacked and they didn't know about it. what the fbi is warning you to do in the aftermath of the massive data breach. >>> and two of your favorite stores are making it more conve >>> developing now, millions of government workers trying to figure out how hackers stole their personal information. we know this could affect you and we have information that can keep you safe. >>> and scattered sprinkles throughout maryland virginia the district this morning on the storm team 4 radar. they should pretty much end though over the next hour or so and by 8:00 this morning, near 60 degrees with a cloudy sky. by noon, a little sunshine breaks out. should be in the upper 60s. headed back home today, partly cloudy, mid 70s during the afternoon. might get an isolated shower or thundershower in shenandoah valley. >>> a report of a downed pour in prince george's county and in silver springs, layhill, emergency road work is underway. >>> thank you. millions of you are h

it is melissa, good to talk to you. as he stands before a federal judge for the first time later today we will see hastert alongside powerful washington lawyer thomas green. again, that all getting started after noon here today. >> do my legislative home is here on the floor. >> the former house speaker hasn't spoken or been seen publicly since the febl indictment was announced two weeks ago. dennis hastert, a republican retired from the house in 2007 accused of moving funds illegally and lying to the fbi. about $3.5 million, prosecutors describe as hush money. to cover up misconduct. >> the male student was at yorkville high school. where taftert was a teacher and wrestler coach. before he became speaker in congress. >> a student reinboldt alleged he was assaulted by hastert. and a growing number of former students and wrestlers are now defending the former coach. >> until more comes out, then i'm still going to believe he's a good person. >> we were all proud we had him in our area and then when something happens like

melissa? >> we have a problem just outside the beltway here on b.w. parkway. we were talking about the northbound b.w. parkway. the ramp to greenbelt room. single car crash this vehicle went off the roadway here and in the trees. looks like nobody was hurt. the ramp is still open just on the one side. right side. so you have to stay right to get by. chopper 4 over that scene this morning. green and yellow line trains still single-tracking. wide look at things no major problems elsewhere. back with travel times in ten minutes. >> thanks, melissa. >>> today, there will be a special dedication to honor the nine people who died when two metro trains crashed near the fort totten station. the legacy memorial park is along new hampshire avenue near the crash site in northeast washington. news4's megan mcgrath is live now with the look at the park. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, eun. you can see behind me here that work crews are here putting the finishing touches on this park, cleanin

melissa mollet has more. >> good morning. right now, again, this breaking news here in the district. still a problem there. suitland parkway at firth sterling avenue. right now police are pushing you on to firth sterling there. you can take a right and get

it was, as melissa mentioned down to one lane a little while ago. three lanes of traffic are moving around the accident. happened around 2:00 this morning. outerloop of the beltway. truck flipped over. the driver we're hearing, was seriously hurt. but we're trying to find out exactly how they're doing. back here live, you can see some of the equipment and trucks being used for the cleanup. there say tow truck here now, because now the plan is to upright the truck. and that's what's going to take a little bit of time because we have to upright the truck and also move it off the highway. we'll keep you updated throughout the morning. but again could be a little slow going this morning on the way in. back to you. >> kristin, thank you. >>> 5:32, our time right now, good morning everybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. let's check the forecast with tom kierein telling us about another hot day in store for us. hey, tom. >> yes, but comfortably dry and low humidity. waiting for the bus and metro it's go to be rather cool lower 50s and 60s for a

us live with the accu weather forecast melissa. >> walter, we are finding scattering activity popping autopsy across delaware and lehigh valley. storm tracker six live double scan radar, showing spotty activity in north and west of philadelphia even showers moving out of ocean county. there is a a cluster to the south of wilmington and north of dover. you can see we have a severe thunderstorm warning posted for new castle and also, northern kent counties as well there in delaware. this stays up until 6:15 this evening. really for middletown, townsend to the north and west of smyrna. we will track it on storm tracker six live double scan street level and you can see showers and storms for the most part are moving north east at 15 miles an hour, and we have about six lightening strikes, with this cluster that we're tracking within this past 15 minutes. so torrential rain is a big concern with the showers and storms as they move on through and winds in excess of 60 miles per hour. but the feature we are tracking overnight tonight and second half of our weekend on sunday. here's storm tra

back at 5:31. >>> thanks melissa. we're hearing from two people released after a motorcycle gang shoot-out in texas. police arrested william and morgan english along with 200 others for the shooting in waco last month. it left nine bikers dead. the couple says they're innocent. >> they didn't ask, you know, are you innocent, what happened? they just arrested all of us. >> this whole thing is a sham. >> police arrested 192 people and charged them with engaging in organized crime. >>> a toddler has died after being left in a hot car all day in florida while her mother taught class at an elementary school. she died in the car which was parked outside the school in panama city. the mother of the child says she left her in the car around 7:00 a.m. as she headed to teach class. she returned to the car eight hours later. it's not known if charges will be filed. >>> bosnia is preparing for pope francis' visit this saturday. in the capital of sarajevo many are expected to attend the mass. this visit is aimed at building a sens

melissa, what's the latest with the roads? >> not looking so good outer loop at braddock road is starting to build. all lanes at the 11th street bridge are open, but still backups. if you're headed north on 295 a five mile backup because of the problem and south on 295 another five mile backup. avoid it if you can. dufief mill at travilah, all lanes are blocked. that's from the overnight fatal crash. 66 and 95 looking typical. same thing in prince george's county. top of the beltway rolling al nicely. beltway at -- 270 at montrose road, no problems there. guys? >> melissa thank you. 6:54 and today the 2015 world police and fire games will kick off in the district. the games include 61 sports with nearly 10,000 athletes representing 64 countries. the opening ceremony is tonight at rfk stadium. i'll be helping out with those ceremonies. news4's molette green is live at the stadium with more on what's happening today. molette, good morning. >> reporter: aaron, good morning. it will be really exciting to see the first responders f

meteorologist melissa magee is at the big board with first check of the accuweather forecast. >> melissa. >> walter. it was not about the start to the weekend. temperatures still above average. certainly not as hot and humid as yesterday. currently in philadelphia, 8 0. 67 up in poconos. 75le en town and lehigh valley and 78 there in at wilmington. we have changes on the way. stormtracker 6 live double scan radar 3d showing you it's dry across the mid-atlantic region tracking a front all boundary in the south. you notice that activity firing up against across the ohio valley. so this boundary we're tracking with the showers and storms will lift north ward as we go throughout the day. on sunday wane that there's threat of finding severe weather and in fact those storm prediction center placed part of our region in low prob bit of finding weather biggest threat will be damaging winds and hail and major concern west of philadelphia and west of 95 corridor for lancaster up to poconos as we get to tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening. so what's ahead for the rest of tonight. well it s