. >> that's right, melissa mollet is standing by with first 4 traffic but we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell because we have good weather to report today. >> yes, absolutely right. no weather alert needed for today. now if we could just keep melissa mollet and first 4 traffic in line today, yesterday so many problemsaround. probably still waiting to get to work from yesterday still. temperatures this morning have fallen into the 60s in tee wes suburbs. very comfortable indeed from chantilly and falls church, a few spots down close to the 50s now. front royal downto 61. we'll see if anyone can get below 60 degrees this morning. your commute for the day today, a very easy go from the weattr departm there's only the tiniest chance for a stray mid afternoon shower or two. no thunderstorms, no heat, hasz or midity. on the whole, melissa mollet a fine-looking day coming our way for today and looks like the great weather will hang arou to the weekend. ten day forecast later in the half hour. no troubles . today, mollet >> i'm trying. wouldn't i love to tell you no troubles.

our melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. >> let's start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. anotheweather alert day. >> it gets much worse forour friday and your saturday plns. plan to stay out of the extreme heat as much as. we have a heat index already and how indicative how humid it is. upper 70s from the d.c. metro area, eastbound to the bay. not much of a rain chance the first part of the day b heat index is over 100 degrees as early as noon time p.m. high in the 90s. 60% chance of more thunderstorms later today. possible storms for today and sweltering saturday on the way and deep fried friday here today. complete check of then- teday forecast, which has the cooldow at thed of it, melissa. >> i like hat. a cooldown somewhere in the future sound pretty good tome northbound 95 before orcentrep parkway road work so a delay there. after you take a look after fredericksburg you can see. the rest of the beltway and op inner los looking okay. >>> yesterday's storm knocked out power to thousands of people across the d region. this morning, about 5,000 people are st

melissa mollet, a far easier day for first 4 traffic. >> and for you too. quite the afternoon and morning yesterday. in the northwest, canal road is shut down. lanes blocked because of the flooding. no word when that is reopened. we had one of our production assistants drive by lastaight said mud and debris all over the road way. no word on when that will be repaired or good enough for traffic. 270, 70 out of the spur 69 miles an hour gets you theren 26 minute. >>> pure panic and chaos as flash floods swept through d.c. yesterday. >> this is video from potomac, maryland. many of their cars are water-logged now after what seems like a river t over their neighborhood and inside, water washed away a lifetime of memories in some place. flood water rose all the way up to the ceiling and destroyed this homeowner's basement too. >> it hasn't hit me too much becausen i've just bee working, working, working to clean this up. all of the antique in the basement, we just have to consider that they aregone. >> here is another sign of the force of the flash flooding. the

melissa mollet, what we like is a smooth commute. what with you do to help that?>> well, sometimes not much, right? outer loop ramp chopper 4 looki this problem. 450. a closure there as far as we know and westbound 450 and eastbound there on to the outer liop, the ramp is shut down because of an ear crash. listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. >>> i'm kate gers. ep an eye on nemt fltflix. he stock is slammed after they reported first quarterly decline in decade. underwhelming performance and number of rivals including disney and nbc universal set to launch their own service the coming months. netflix contributing to lower growth partly to the lineup change. the new season of "stranger things" didn't premiere until later thismth. that is your cnbc morning report. i'ate rogers. >> it is the middle of the summer. before you know it, schools bells will ring again. >> we are working for you. lour molette green isive at backpack kids collection in prince george's county this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are here at the whole foo

thank you. >>> melissa mollet will join us with an update on thesish. itke sure you're following first 4 traffic on twr for the update as they come in and download the nbc washington app for updates as we in the house and hundred more in the senate. >> but tomorrow all eyes are on just one man. >> special council robert mueller will testify before two house committees in a little more than 24 hour from now. focus on his russia investigation. nbc kristen welker has this report from the white house. it appears we may be trouble getting her package there. we do know she will have much more on this story coming up on the "today." >>> in the meantime, we have new detail on atory we first told you about yesterday on "news4 today." equifax will pay up to 700 l million dolars. >>> this is one for the books, melissa. >> quite a mess here this morning. let's start with the inner loop at connecticut avenue. you are getting by on the left side. tractor-trailer lost its load this morning. it has been a mess for hours. inner loop at connecticut a four-mile backup. yo

melissa mollet getting you off with first 4 traffic but we want to start with storm team 4 meteorolog st chuck belltoday. >> there's the teeniest chance of a popup shower or two. ardly morell not see than a few fair weather clouds in the sky today. and comfortable this atorning. nal airport down to 70 now, but dulles down to 66. 61 in winchester and front royal. 76 by the bay. annapolis, comfortable way to get your july morning started. more than enough sunshine today. but temperatures staying 3 to 4 degrees -- wait for it, melissa, cooler than average in july with sunshin that's a win.at >> ths absolute aa win. that looks amazing to me. 66 west of nutley street into town, out of town. we don't have anyorries right now. beltway is looking good, inner loop, outer loop, no delays r and no construction even. that's a nice treat for this morning. northwest broad branch road at brandy. tree down. 270 from 70 down to the spur, 67 miles per hour getsyou there in 27 minutes. >>> the work speaks for itself. any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report. and the report is my tes

melissa mollet ishere with tips o put together a last than-minute get-away. >> it's already july. we know a little r&r is a must during the summer months. if you don't have anything booked yet, here is what you need to know to get a good deal on a last-minute trip. >> first class travel. scott. how can i help you? >> reporter: travel agent scott karoza owns first class travel and booking trips for clients for 20 years and said summer may be in full swing, right now, there are some hot spots with pretty cool pricing. >> certain locations like panama, for instance,onstop place from here. you can go right to panama and very good value. >> reporter: the key to saving a few bucks?h flexibility wtes and location, location, location. th you could do arizona. vegas. se are two good locations you can get good values in the summer. maine. you can go up to maine really cheap anduthwest from baltimore to take you up to r rtland and up there to harbor. fun stuff. >> reporter: for families, he suggest the gulf coast of florida or certain spots in mexico for couples. he says adult only resorts i

let's look at theoadways with melissa mollet. good morning. >>> taking a look now at these road. as we zoom in northbound 295 only one lane getting by sudland parkway. northbound5 before 123, we have two right lanes getting by that work zone. a aron? >> thank you. >>> next on "news4 today," the push for locally sourced food lead toul new r for gardens and farmers market. >> peopled in one neighborhoo are not happy about these changes and it's stirring up a little bit of garden war. >>> this afternoon "ellen." at 30 and then the new on news4 at 4:00. >>> the historic carousel at glen echo park took its last ride. it is nearly 100 years old and need at of work. willthe coming months they work on it and the cost wi carousel willreopen next you can now gr in your bit of a garden war. >> over there. >>etreporter: neil has somng of a pharmacy in his front yard whether it's her for medicine or food for lunch, his garden keeps on giving. >> this is lettucethat i'm about to eat in my sandwich and it's actually pretty delicious. >> reporter: he and his girlfriend ashley have been building

. >> our melissa mollet has a eye on the roads for you in your first 4 affic but storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is here with a look at the forecast. >> upper 90s for the temperature but the heat index will be past 100 degrees and stay there most of the afternoon. a muggy start y tour friday morning. temperatures still now just droppg below 80 degrees for the first time through the overnight. there is an excsiveeat watch for this afternoon and for tomorrow. likely again on sunday. heat index values today will be as much as 105 degrees. tomorrow actually will be higher than that. there is your friday planner. heat, haze, and humidity all in abundance today. aftdegrees. that would not be a record, melissa, but it will be miserable. >> i was going to say a hot one. here is a work zone blocking the right lane and just cleveland out of wait. only thing 270 is northbnend father hurley boulevard so a slow down there. through prince george's county into town and out, no delays. >>> d.c. police released this imagine of a possible suspect in the deadly shooting of a young boy. 11-year-old karon

good morning, melissa mollet. >> good morning. chopper 4 on the sway to the situation in gaithers burg best deer bark at muddy branch. a report of an accident and we will show you the picture when we get that. waldor5 at poplar hill road accident is there and lanes blocked in both direction so a warning there. you might come across that this morning. both lanes in manassas may be blocked at this crash. 66 and 95 no major problemsre the right now. inner loop and outer loop to the beltway looking okay. >>> back to the breaking news we have been following this morning. d.c. police released this image of a possible suspect in the deadlyhooting of an 11-year-old boy. karon brown was shot in southeast last night and died at tathe hospi police hope somebody will recognize the man you see here. he is one of several people that police areearching for this morning. >>> we have team coverage on the investigation now. >> lt's begin with news4 justin finch who is live in southeast washington. a sad story all around, justin. >> reporter: truly.

our melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. >> let's start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. another weather alert day. tels yo tell us why. >> there is a chance for strong thunderstorms later on in the afternoon so we have a storm chance for today with heat index s around 100 degree and we get rid of the storm chance for friday and saturday but heat ndexes on friday and saturday both would be as much as 110 degrees. dangerous levels of heat and humidity. this morning, plenty of stickiness out e. your planner for your thursday, day time highs today only in the low to mid-90s. that will feel cool by comparison as we head toward friday. we will talk more about that weekend meltdown coming up. >>> let's go over to melissa now. >> taking a look at the road here. rest of the beltway is okay. >> thank y . >>> you can see all of the rain and wind blowing across th parking lot in leesburg. thats the reason homeowners around our region have some cleaning up to do today. >> check out this video from loudoun county. a lightning strike caught a house on re and look at the fla

melissa mollet, that is employee of the month stuff for me. >> definitely it is right now. take a look at this. first 4 traffic alert this morning. different issues around town. multiple issued. a couple of them on the beltway and then one on 270. . a tractor-trailer has jackknifed and lost a load the and we are sending a crew there shortly. the other issue on the beltway, silver spring. left side blocked at the crash. look at this one. overturned tractor-trailer d fuel spell at thissite. more coming up. >> mek ssa, thanyou. >>> that right there is how it sounded, even looked yesterday while mt. airy was under a tornado warning. people are waking up with a big cleanup. >> check out te video from o tower camera here. one of the cells from yesterday iowing across the district. >> severe weath blamed for at least one death in maryland. a tree fell on a home in carroll county killing a man inside that home. treeranches are down including this yard in northwest washington. irefighters found here in tnnily town checking for damage rnoveht. >> drivers all over d.c. had a tough tim

. >> melissa mollet is keeping an e on your commute. let's check in with lauren and more storms coming today. >> more storms and higher chance than yesterday. these storms are really taking advantage of this atmosphere, this juicy, moisat sphere we're seeing out there in this first week ofjuly. and it's dry out there right now. beautiful sunrise the sun coming up at 5:48t jus in 47 minutes we'll see that sunome up over the horizon. 4 degrees is yourmperature right now. winds out of thet. southwes so as long as you're staying out of the south, we continue with the influx of humidity. the heat index will be right around 100 degrees by this afternoos temperaturese into the low to mid 90s. 9:00 a.m. those temperatures will be in the low 80s. it will be a very warm, hot day once again. seei a few sprinkles up in western maryland. for the most part we're dry this morning. ntm watching this piece of energy moving i west virginia. you can see how it's weakening moving overst the ate line. more rain tftis noon. let's talk traffic with melissa. t

melissa mollet ishere with first 4 traffic. >> but we begin withckauryn rits who is in forchuck bell. i guess theheat is coming up and so is the humidi s. >> theheet on, guys. absolutely. yo fre going toeel that increasing humidity out there todaywhen you step outside.co pared to yesterday. yesterday was nices but it wa hot. today we will have the heat and humidity out there. sun is coming up in a little bit before 6:00 a.m. should be a pretty sunrise. partly sunny out there today and temperatures, we are near 80 e degrees her in the district. 78 is our temperatureig r now. to the north and west, temperatures in the low 70s. feeling close to a hundred degrees out there. let's timehis out and talk numbers. let's talk about just how hot it will feel out there and that is coming up. >>> first, let's talk about traffic with melissa. >> good morning. on the beltway we are seeing delays here. >>> this morning, people living in prince george's county are upset over a proposed amazon warehouse. >> some neighbors near the proposed site say they were misled about what aually was coming to their

melissa mollet is standing by with a look at our first 4 traffic.et's set totorm team 4 chuck bell and look at the forecast. another weather alert. >> sure is. even aaron and i didn't bother to put a tie on this morning because it's too hot for neck wear today! honestly, it's hawaiian shirt at the sation but was he dent want to go all in with the hawaii shirt. if you got one, today is a great day to wear it. loose fitting and light colored clothing is in fashion today and the weekend.ur temperates in the 70s in the suburbs but 80 downtown and 82 in marynd in annapolis. ot

. >> chuck pell is standing by with your forecastntbut we to begin with melissa mollet following the breaking news on the roadways. t we are talking abou major mess for your morning commute. no matter where you're heading, montgomery county four differe take a look. the picture you just saw there that live picture, chevy cse. the left lane only getting by after connecticut avenue. the tractor trail jackknifed so only get by to the left. debris all over the roadway and a live report is coming up. this is the other major problemb probly a bigger issue travel wise. outer loop shut down before new hampshire avenue. crash n.investigatio single vehicle with entrapment. they have shut everything done. the person was transported. after you get past the one in new hampshire a downed tree crowding right lne and causing delays there. 270 northbound before 109 ride blocked there. overturned tractor-trailer and fuel spill off to the right and not so worried because it's northbound but t southbound traffic will be impacted by this as folks look over at the response. it willake a while to get that

melissa mollet is standing by with a look at our first 4 traffic. but let's set totorm team 4 chuck bell and look at the forecast. another weather alert. >> sure is. even aaron and i didn't bother to put a tie on this morning because it's too hot for neck wear today! honestly, it's hawaiian shirt at the sation but was he dent want to go all in with the hawaii shirt. if you got one, today is a great day to wear it. loose fitting and light colored clothing is in fashion today and the weekend.ur temperates in the 70s in the suburbs but 80 downtown and 82 in marynd in annapolis. a hot one today. heat index up near 105. dog walking weather? look at cute little apache only 5month-old and would be a great addition to your family and apache would appreciate-c airnditioning this morning. go to humane dog rescue alliance for adoption of apache. it wouldn'ecommend dog walking today. it's just going to be too hot. >> we can't hear melissa but we will get back to her on your first 4 traffic. >>> breaking news right now. d.c. police are looking for this man. they

we are helping you t the week started on the right foot melissa mollet is standing by with your traffic. >> but let's get it started with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >>> it won'ting as hot over the weekend. satury and sunday heat index up to 110. today's heat index is 100 but that is way more tolerable than over the weekend. we are in weather alert mode. not just for the heat and humidity but the risk for severe weather later todayd and coul lead to a flood threat late tonight into the first half of your tuesday. all of the immediate d.c. is under a flash flood watch that starts lat theis evening. st. mary's county and cal vert county could be close to 100 h degreat index. the rest of us severe weather between 3:00 a 11:00. rain could be heavy overnight. widespread amounts 1 to 1.5 inches but as cmuch as 3 inches is possible later tonight. your planner is about to 5 to 10 degrees cooler than the sameye time erday. there is your planner.

. >> wtop jack taylor is in for melissa mollet today but let's chart with ouror st team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. i don't know if our region can any more storms. lo> i'm with after last monday's flash f emergency here. we know what the folks in new orleans is dealing with. they had a flash flood emergency yesterday and 5 to 6 inches of rain in a couple of hour and are all too familiar with that around here after monday. unfortunately, another storm team 4 weather alert day today. an opportunityor not only thunderstorms this afternoon and evening but because the ground is saturated, a brand-new flash flood watch has been issued. no heavy rain outside early this morning. the flash flood watch begps at 2:00 . this afternoon and goes until two a.m. friday morning and includes all of the d.c. and baltimore metro area so keep ndat in mi. be weatherlert today. your evening commute could be seriously impact by rain, jack tayl taylor. >>> beltway outer loop breaki traffic. trouble through at least on this morning's rush hour there on the beltway outer loop. so far more of an inbound pattern th

melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic, but begin with storm roam 4 meteogist chuckll. we have been waiting for some nice weather. >> it won't be t hot or too humid like goldie locks just right on your wednesday. couple degrees cooler than average. sun is coming up little more than half an hour from now, 6:02 is sunristt li early morning daylight starting to appear. 63 in loudoun county, virginia. 63 in gaithersburg and frederick. a little warmer, the warm waters of chesapeake bayre holding temperatures for our bay side communities in the low to mid 70s. your commute for today will be unaected by the weather. other than maybe a little sun glare, temperatures in the 60s for the ride in about 80 at noontime todaynd low 80s for daytime highs today. so really nice weather to get out and enjoy it. car washing forecast, you bet.r go foit. dry weather will stick around the next couple days. little warmer trend, though. we'll talk about that with the ten-day forecast. melissa mollet, let's hope today goes easier than yesterday. >> after yesterday, i think i deserve a week of

melissa mollet is starting by with your first 4 traffic. we want to start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell.t >> the las couple of nights, the few folks have had to get weather the last few nights have gotten dumped on with period of heavy rain and parts of a congressional golf course yesterday in montgomery county was flooded four things you need to know. not too bad this morning but likely to be a very stormy afternoon and evening commute home. 3:00 to midnight tonight, possibly severe weather. cool and showers tomorrow. how nice do those two word sound on a summer day after this long stretch?sc rumptious weather for wednday and beautiful weather thursday but we have to debt through today first. a chance for severe weather from richardto new england. thunderstorms in the predawn hours and western pennsylvania. part of the front. the front, its, may not geto the washington area in i-95 until sunrise tomorrow morning. ed tookheatndex today only feelg like 100 degrees. that is before the storms roll in, melissa. >> looking forward t

melissa mollet is standing by witff your first 4 tra but let's start with stormeam 4 meteorologist chuck bell. refreshing out there this morning compared to the last feud. once the rain stopped late yesterday afternoon, skies cleared out. because we never warmed up much yesterday, high temperature only 80 destees yeerday. that relative low gh temperature yesterday allowed temperatures to real drop into the comfortable range this morning. there is a few area with some thick fog this morning. you see the fog hanging over the potomac near georgetown university in d.c. visibility not a huge issue everywhere but willil there w be pockets the visibility is under a mile this morning so you want to be on the lookout for that. most everybody is below 70 degrees. always a bargain at this time of the year. 63 in chan tilly nownd 68 in quantico. this fog will be goneshortly and temperatures in the low 70s by 9:00 and today's high temperature 88 degrees. >>ooks like a beautiful day. thank you, thank you. >>> northwest, a great update. canal road between foxhall and arizona avenue the iconic picture i

melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic but we start with storm team 4 chuck bell. heavy have had period of rain overnight and areas of high water across the region this morning.ss so the poility still exists for there to be additional flash flooding here during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. most of the heavier part of the rain will come here before lunch time today. right now, we are in the 70sro acss the area. temperate wise it is a humid start to the day. with all of the cloud and the i pretty hgh rain chances around, afterno high today will be comfortably lower an average the upper 70s to around 80. take your umbrella. it's the humidity and raince chans today. complete updated forecast zone-by-zone in our nbc washington app and i will post more on my social media pages. rain across thesearea. also rain right here across part of calvert and st. mary's county. let's go over to traffic. >> good morning. we are still slow here northbound i-95 near mfries. you're getting by on the left. i spoke with police and they hope it get this out of the way

melissa mollet is standing by with first 4 traffic. >> b let's start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell who says you can do pretty much what you want outside today. >> pretty much. i think today will be cooperative with your outdoor plans. little chance for a pop-up shower or two. that chance was there yesterday and i mentioned it and i'm glad i did because it popp up right on top of my house yesterday around 6:30 in the evening. yame story again for today. most of the da will be dry, comfortable, low humidity, plenty of sunshine.lo at these numbers this morning. all of the shenandoah valley in the mido upper 50s. the western suburb in the low to mid six. even national airport a relative cool 67 degree. yo planneror today, plenty of sunshine. there will be a bubbling up of cloud later in the day and rain chances are not all the way down to zero today but rain chances, just lik yesterday, are under 20%. it's not likely that you'll get rained on but that doesn't mean that it's imressible. ths a big difference between a low and a zero percent. i know. i know. thank you, chuck. i

our melissa mollet is standing by with your fst 4 traffic. >> and lauryn ricketts is in for chuck bell. >> you'll notice humidity out there. it's a warm day out there. the sun coming up before 6:00 a.m. this morning. as we go through onthe y, temperatures in the upper seventh and flip through 6:00, 7:00. but still warm and by 10:00 a.m. the temperatures in the mid-80sl and feelske the low 90s and looks like this will be the coolest day we will have comin , because we got a big heat dome headed our way.cl a few d out there right now moving into the area. we also have the circulation you can see still from remnants o barry. it is now post-tropical barry so we continue to tr k this moisture because it is headed our way and we will talk about when you can see some rain coming up. first, let's talk about the road with melissa. >> good morning. right now silver spring southbou georgia avenue at the beltway, police investigation on the right so see slightest dlely on the ride southbound. through prince george's county into and out ofown no problem. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. >>> breaking n

. >>> first up, let's go to first 4 traffic who has been on top of this with melissa mollet. >> th270 souund before germantown road, it looks to me from that camera like wemiingg . before all of that, as you're hittiy father hurle boulevard and heading southbound, a two-mile backup because it is just very low. this happened around 1:00 in the morning and tractor-trailer into a cruiser and that cruiser into a second cruiser. because of this we also have a closure on a ramp. duthbound 270the ramp to 118 is still shutown because of this accidenlo outer op after 50 in virginia a crash there as yoll. can see on the left side oy, the roadwa that is getting by so that s not too much an issue. megan mcgrath is out on the scene there on 270. megan, what are you seeing? are there twoanes open there? >> reporter: just wthin the last a couple of minutes they startedno open lanes o 270. il peek over here. it was two lanes that were reopened. now looks le we may have three sanes. yes, three lane on 270 now open. what is still impacted by the cra, though, is the ramp for 118. germantown road, they a

we will start with the forecast in a moment with chuck bell but melissa mollet has nor information on that crash. so lucky nobody was seriously hurt here. take a look at the first 4 traffic alert. germantown 270 before germantown road the left lane is blocked by this crash. tractor-trailer into a mur montgomery county police cruiser who went into another police cruiser. luckily, nobody was closed. the ramp is shut down because of this accident. eigan mcgrath is on the way and we are se delays southbound. this worries me because of how important 270 is early in the morning for so many of our viewe a. inner loop outer loop looking nice and clear. nothing to worry about. good morning, chuck. >> good morning, melissa. friday forecast time. wow. mother nature really going to be treating us with great care for our friday and your weekend plans. not too hot and not too humid. no real rain chance anywhere from the mountains to the beaches for your weekend traveling plans. temperatures now have fallen into the upper 50s from o winchester t front royal to harrisonburg to warrenton, ni virgia. s

melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic but we start with storm team 4 chuck bell. heavy have had period of rain overnight and areas of high water across the region this morning.ss so the poility still exists for there to be additional flash flooding here during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. most of the heavier part of the rain will come here before lunch time today. right now, we are in the 70s

of course, melissa mollet is tracking the road ahead of your morncommute. >> let's start, though, with chuck bell. are we going to see some sunshine? because i'm freezing. >> we are waking up with temperatures in the 60s around thy. cit low 70s right next to the warm waters of the chesapeake bay. even more spots have dropped into the 50s this morning than we had yesterday morning. all of the shenandoah valley is in the 50s now. gaithersburg 60 now. 61 manassas and 58 warrenton and 55 in winchester, virginia. summertime ff for for sure. your planner today. more sunshine than yesterday and a bitan warmer th yesterday as well but rain chances are low and not quite down to zero. rain chances are under 20%. just like yesterday but yesterday it did raint my house around 6:30, 7:00. >>> taking a look at the beltwa inner loop and outer loop okay near 50 a lane blocked because of a work zonee rest of theway looking just fine. here is ather situation. gw parkway turkey run because of work zone there and laurelpa bw way between 198 and 32 left lane is getting by and silver kpring georgia avenue n

let's get a look at your weather off.traffic to start things >> melissa mollet is standing by in first 4 traffic. we begin with meteorologist chuck bell a not a whole lot to talk about for you, right? >> on to you, melissa. >> that's at good ng. >> relatively quiet weather day today, much like yesterday. plenty of sunshine, skies are clear here this morning. temperatures not too terribly bad. 69 at dulles airport. 73 washington now. 75 in annapolis. not quite as cool and comfortable as yesterday morning, but thekies are clear and there's a littl t less fog contend with. your hour by hour planner sunsu before 6:00 a.m. this morning and it will be bright and sunny start to fnish today no chance for rain today. afternoon high temperature expected to reach 89 degrees. now rain chances go w up we get into your thursday afternoon and evening. we'll time out that and talk about your severe weatherre ths for your thursday and a look at the weekend, too. melissa, i hope you have something to say. >> we he a couple things happening. branch avenue crash on the left side. not seeing a actual slow-

let's urn to melissa mollet with a check on the road. >> southbound 270 appear old georgetown road a crash there on the ride of the roadway. everything else looking pretty good. northbound/southbound on 270 no big complaints. silver spring. this on the ride and doesn't sound like it's on the right shoulder and not blocking any lanes. top of the beltway when you're talking about 95, bw parkway everything looking good in and town.f no problems on 66 eastbound or westbound. 95erhad ear problem near woodbridge and it has now . cleared aaron? >>> it's5:02 now. weekend in the district killed one man and injured several others including two young children. >> news4 justin finch is live this morning outside d.c. police headquarters with details. >> reporter: good morning. fm southeast to northwest, d.c. police now looking into at least two shootings that left five people in total injured, two as you mentioned are children. sne man has died and one of those shooting taking place in broad daylightclose to 5:30 on sunday afternoon, yesterday, crime tape blocking off an alley between 14th and 15

. >> melissa mollet is standing by with a look at our trafc. we begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >>> we would have 8 billion gallons of water dropping in ono r just on the district of columbia. that is how much water that was in the morning in a one-hour time . span >>> this morning, all that water yesterday and a clear sky overnight is leading to fog early today. some areas dow to visibility under a mile. front royal down to a visibility of zero now. becareful with the fog early. 61 winchester and leesburg 59 and commuter forecast for today. the only impact on your commutee weather witoday is a little fog around early this morning. sun up at 5:51 and put off the fog relatively quickly and a beautiful day with temperatures in the mid topper 80s and nice weather tomorrow. more about that coming up. thursday chance of rain coming up in a few. >>> taking a look at the road here in virginia. as we take a look at 66 here this morning. rkying in. fairfax county pay to the beltway we don't have anything in your way. 66 miles per hour.

melissa mollet, do we have a smooth ride? >> not too bad rightnow. we were hearing about a problem pshire avenue h at oakview drive but we are not seeing anything and chopper 4 is over there looking around andou let ynow if we see something. multiple trees down in loudoun county so warning if you'reea hng out soon you might have slow downs because of that anso al trees down on the tracks on the brunswick line so check before you leave today. remember listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. >>> are you ready for the summer games? this week marks one year until the 2020 olympics in tokyo, japan. >> organizers say the preparations are right on track. this is a look at the olympic tadium. the games begin july 24th, 2020. the olympic village will host more than s10,000 athlete and that is being built on the edge of tokyo bay. >> more than 3 million tickets have been sold already. don't worry. if you didn't b your ticket and don't plan to go, you can watch the games on news4. >> sometimes you have the best spot right here on your couch. >>>

melissa mollet is checking on your commute with your first 4 traffic. >> first, though, chuck bell is here with a weather alert day today. what's going on, chuck? >> a weather front to our north and west is going to do its darnest to get through the next couple days but will take its own sweet time getting here. as a result, we'll be sort of in the prime area for strong to severes. thunderstorm even early morning thunderstorms there just across parts of southern pennsylvania. so pretty unusual to see thunderstormis time of the day in pennsylvania. so we'll let you know there's a lot of instability in the atmosphere to work with today and there's not much going on in the first part of the darks you get these temperatures which are in the 60s and low 70s now. we'll be back up near 90 degrees aintoday. that will be more than warm mough to generate strong to severe thunderstor to late parts of afternoon. i'll show you future weather and help you get you ready for the weekend coming up. >> chuck, looking at the roads here now, outer look at aock road left lane getting by the work zone. res

first 4 traffic melissa mollet is standing by with a look at the road. >> i'm not anti--panda, just f the record. put that out there. >> i'm just a little over the top! >> that is a whole other story. chuck bell is off today and lauryn ricketts is in to look at the forecast for you. >> we were talking about the panda over the weekend and we willing covering this night and day. breaking news. her mike is ff! let's go. we are still talking abut the panda!sh kingly. >>> listen. it is a beautiful morning out there. temperatures not that bad. 60s and 70s. humidy is low when you walk ngtside. sun comip just about 55 minutes from now. 75 degrees. it is very niceut there. we will stay in the mid-70s as we go through the 7:00 a.m. hour. plenty of sunshine once that sun comes up and that will take our temperature into the upper 80s today. now yesterday weere about 94 degrees where we topped out. looking a lot better out there today. not a lot going on in radar. high pressure over us and give us blue skies out there throughout the day today. looking pretty good. now, head down to our friend in a

our melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. >> and lauryn ricketts is in for chuck bell. we will start with you. e she may be having technical difficulty with the equipment but we will keep talking until she is ready to rock 'n' roll. >> my feet got caught in the chair. >> sounds like your microphone is out too. >> it is. >> on there we go. >> can anybody hear me? happening?g happy 5:00 on a tuesday morning, everybody. starting off on a great note. a little warm out there. we have got temperat es that are on their way up along with the humiatty. is the main thing you'll notice out there today. the heat and o humidity isut there. not the bl skies we had yesterday. 77 degrees is our temperature ttght now. we will slip a bit as we continue through the 6:00 a.m. hour and start moving back in the right direction. 8by 10:00 a.m. it's going to feel like 90 degrees by that time. mix of sun andl cd out there. more humid today. afternoon, we could have a chance for storms and same with the commute soim we will t those out coming up. >>> good morning, melissa. >> good morning. taki

on your commute with melissa mollet westbo66fter the fairfax still los like we have just parkwa it is moving just fine. capita heights northbound, kennel lane and ramp still blocked by that accident. burt e,tonsvill that crash inner loop/outer loop no major 270 southbound nice and en. eun? >> 4:33.ar ea pastor is charged with congre messen god in silver spring servic are held inside his home. detect tell us that joseph the victim and her fily were suspec arlington. office say johannes juravis he made inappropriate comments invest boklieve he t >>> r&b singer r. kelly has been deniedbond. he will remain in jail. those charges include prosec saying he had sex rg prosec aued that kelly minors judges are still trying to work he faces charges in both chicago and new york. >>> protests against immigratioo agents ntinued in the distri entran to i.c.e.'s washin >> your door. >> the group is calling on includ deporting people. it was begun by a group of ut studen fure clergy to say here's a look athe other top a montgomery county art accuse sexually abusing two childr gene say works at the art

. >> melissa mollet of course standing by for us. we'll begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck and what we need to know about today's weather. >> all right, aaron. you need to know that it's going to be sunny and it's going to be hot. typical for july in washington. nice, quiet weather for today. back up close to s90 degreehis afternoon. not all that unusually hot. our average high is 89. still watching for a very high chancof thunderstorms coming our way tomorrow. it will be a storm team 4 weather alert in addition to a thunderstorm chance. there's also ing to be a pretty high chance for some localized flash flooding tomorrow. viously the ground is saturated because of what happened around here on monday. but for now, your wednesday morning getting off to a beautiful start acss the region. visibility not as much of an issue today as it was yesterday. there are a few pockets of foggine fogginess. your planner for today, temperatus in the low 70s by 7:00. mid 80s by lunchtime and upper 80s to right around 90 degrees for a high te

we are working for you on a wednes it is a storm team 4 weather storm team 4 melissa mollet is h we begin with -- yeah, it's already hot. f bigg today. you're going to have to dohis temper going to be add in the humidity and heat index, will be above 100 degree 80 at national airport. 78dulles. 79 in gaithersburg 78 in prince george's county. there no improvement cing foreca today, by 9 a.m. mid 90s by lunchtime. the only way don't get to there' a likelihood of some so eather alert for dangerously high heat indexes andh, >> ye that's a little bit w m. thank chuck. capito heights, right lane and outer loop of the beltway, we one of them falls church inner eft side blocked by the work zone. 66 headed in bound, fairfax m 64es going to get you there temper feel like it's pretty warm out policen richmond say someone aftern because they saw a the mo10-h-old girl was hospit baby'sdeath. pr le are the most at risk on extrem hot, humid days like this. that's why it's a good idea to rememb to stay hydrated even if you are out in the heat, you if you don't have air condit local government's offeri c

let's start with a look at the roads with melissa mollet and first4traffic. ge park inner loop, ash on the left side of the road. northbound bw parkway, a downed tree. 270 southbound after middlebrook, an accident there. taking a look at virginia, eastbound 66 at 50 left lane blocked by a crash. >> all right, millions, thank you. we'll take a breaknd check the forecast when we come . >>> good morning. i'm storm team4 meteorologist chuck bell. coming up on 9:00 in the morning, coming up onfo mid-80s temperatures across the region, it's going to be a sizzler today. heat advisory is issued for the entire d.c. metro area. also code orange air quality. today's high ain ste 96. a chance for some strong thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening. keep a weather eye out for thato mores tomorrow before we turn hot and rain-free >>> live from sdio 1a in rockefeller plaza, this is the third hour of "today." >> wow. >> good morning. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the third hour of "today." i'm sheinelle, and we have the whole gang here this morning. >> is this e

. >> melissa mollet is standing by with a look at our traffic. we begin with teorm team 4 ologist chuck bell. he has a look outside for us. >> i din deed. yesterday a saturated grouncr as the area. clear skies and some of the moisture has formed into fog and lifting back up off the ground. you can see her from our tower camera. there is the spire at georgetown university there and the united states air force memorial in arlington county. fog hanging right over the potomac. f f you're doing some oe river crossings, especially the american legion bridge this morning or driving in the rural are, pockets of fog to be dealt with. the sun is up on a tuesday and it is going to be a good day to be outside today. not too hot and not too humid and not much of a breeze either. thickest of the fog towards fauquier county and prince william county. upper 60s and a few spots in the 50s this morning. tuesday planner nothing but sunshine all day long afternoon highs mid to upper 80s. more about tomorrow and the weekend coming up in a few. 4 traffic. fir >>> good

let's start with look at the roads with melissa mollet. >> good morning.med. allow a lot of extra time. west to main avenue crash is cleared. still have delays on 295. ooe right lane isinmpnets.p of>>he t we'll have a check of forecast when we c. >>> it's not too bad out there right now. temperatures in the 70s. more humidity out there today. stray chance of a shower popping up around the region this afternoon. only about a 10% chance you'll see to 30% chance of storms west of d.c. tomrnrow aften. we start off wednesday on the dry note, but a frontal system will be edging toward the area, scattered showers andth derstorms expected on wednesday. could be strong. that will be our best chance, but the frontal system stalls to the front, so then we have daily rain chances leading all the way . >> all right, lauren, thank you. you can get the latest news and worth anye on the nbc .ashington app. >>> back now at 8:30 on this monday morning. july 29th, you can alrey feel it, it's so early in the 'smorning. oingo be a hot one. >> and on the sticky side. 10 million

. >> our melissa mollet has the first 4 traffic alert. tell us what is going on. >> here is the situation with this. southbound new hampshire avenue near endolph road, buse of this fire some lane are blocked. a a couple of minutes ago, everything was shut down southbound new hampshire avenue at randolph road. you can see it looks li we are closed. everything shut down southbound new hampshire at randolph road. northbound lanes are not impacted. we have poln e out there oe scene shutting things down so all of the apparatus can get in and out safely. lauryn ricketts, pretty out there this morning. >> not bad. you're right, melissa. a beautiful start. sun just came up. or just coming up about three or four minutes ago. beautiful out there right now. we will continue to e a autiful day. a few more cloud around today compared to yesterday.e a littlt more humidity. 76 is our temperature right now. you'll start to feel that humidity if you have not yet. 94 is where we are today but look at the temperatures. we go up on wednesdayand definitely on

our melissa mollet is standing by with a check on your first 4 traffic.ut we begin with the illustrious strm team 4 merologist chuck bell. >> who is suddenly ready. >> yes, hi, chuck. >> suddenly. >> i don't have people prepare all my stuff like iyou. called you illustrious, chuck, did you miss that? >> computer generates the data. >> there's an app for me alreadyu so i'm j here for personality. clear skies this morning, little early morning color as well. hetemperatures are in t 60s and 70s to get your wednesday going. hump day is here. 72 now in ngarticlip. 73 in quantico. 74 in annapolis.pe temtures in the mid 60s in the shenandoah valley. nice and mild this morning. ayre than enough sun. temperatures todill be in the upper 80s to almost 90 degrees. not worried about rain chances for today. tomorrow, that is a different issue. today will be sunny and dry. tomorrow hot, humid and an increasing chance for storms not only strong storms but locally heavy rains means that tomorrow's flood thr will be high. melissa, good morning. >> good morning to you. so c

. >> storm team 4 chuck bell is standing by with your forecast but we want to begin with melissa mollet with an update on first 4 traffic. >> a lot of different problems this morning. talking about the inner loop after connecticut avenue is one of them. chopper 4 a picture from above to aackknifed tractor-trailer and debris over the roadway. the backup is building quick because you can only get by on the left side of the road. he tin finch is there on ground. tell us what you're learning down there and what they think as far as when this might get ouayof the w >> reporter: to give you a sense of how big this is here on the grounow there are three t truck here now on the scene. behind that is the jackknifed tractor-trailer. want to get you a sense the traffic is mofng to the left o that. a single lane of traffic is moving along here quite slowly but, luily, it ismoving. three lane of traffic are blocked on the ground. let's give you a closer look at this crash. c you see this tractor-trareer he jackknifner loop of the beltway near exit 33, that is connecticut avenue. we are told what was

speaking of slow downs and travel, let's go to melissa mollet. >> we do have some right inw.t frederick eastbound 70 near 15 left lane, four mile backup as you're headed inbound towards 270 towards 340 or 15 this morning, allow extra time. it is very slow through there. silver spring northbound georgia, all lanes blocked. fire department activity. this is a building fire.hb soutnd turn lane is also shut down because of that issue. southbound connecticut avenue just before the beltway left lane blocked because of a disabled vehicle. lanes blocked because of a work zone. no issues on 66r 95. aaron? >> thank you, melissa. >>> developing in d.c. this orning, police are still trying to find out or trying to find the driver who shot someone after a car crash o 395. >> there were plenty of ne wites, but police still need help finding the other driver. news 4 justin finch joins us live now with the latest on the investigation.st , good morning. >> reporter: eun, aaron, good morning. d.c. police tell us the victim in this case, a man who was shot, remains in critical condition. as you

now it is time to hear from melissa mollet. >> beltway inner loop and outer loop is open. no big complaints. same situation through the bottom of the beltway. pennsylvania avenue branch avenue 110 everythingooking good there into town and ou up top here. bw parkway 95 route 1, 29 rolling without any issues. ndnorthbound is also nic clear. they have had that northbound work zone before montross that is not there this morning. 66 at west ox road, no problems in or out of town. >>> ood, sweat, au=ñ tears aren't what you think of when it comes to ice cream but it's what it took for aet woman toer business off the ground and now this d.c. ice cream shop is helpinthothers. t story is coming up next on "news4 today." >>> make sure you keep it here all dayng lo "ellen" at 3:00 and then your news at:00. 4 >>> westboulcome back. the dream to open a new ice cream store may sound sweet but doesn't come easy. >> we talked to one local store owner who put a lot of work into getting her business off the ground but she is not only providing the treats to customers,he is also providing les

melissa mollet is standing by wi4 your first traffic.but chuck bell has a look at the weather. >> our risk for severe weather is going up as our heat wave prepares to come to an end. we will not be in the 90s tomorrow. thatwill bring an official end to it. hot and humid today and likely to have severe weather in time perhaps inime for the evening commute so keep that in mind. tomorrow cool' showery. beautiful weather and scrumptious sunshine returns for wednesday and thursday but have to get through the severe weather today. severe heat weather for t lower parts of the eastern shore. heat index could be over 100 degrees today. heavy rain ldovernight cou leave as much as 2 or 3 inches of rain. temperatures mid-70s for most of you this morning. above 90 later today. but low o 90s instead upper 90s to near 100 degrees and storms likely later today. car washing forecast, probably not today but sunshine back on wednesday. >>> a couple of problems in virginia. hastbound 66 near 28 in centerville we an accident there taking a look at 95 northbo

. >> wtop jack taylor is in for melissa mollet for your first 4 traffic. >>> let's start with your weather with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. >> the storm today have aib possility of producing strong wind gusts in 50 to 60-mile-per-hour range with the stronger storms. after monday's flood emergency acro here the ground is pretty much saturated so any heavy rain coming withhese storms pose a significant chance for significant flash flooding. the storm threat is highlighted across the the bull's-eye on top of the washington and baltimore area. stay weather alert today and have our nbc washington app and have it ready to go and we will send push alerts as many more warnings or watches coming out. a flash flood watch at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon until 2:00 tomorrow morning ides all of the metro washington area. it's steamy outside this morning. te teratures are already inhe low to mid seventh. fternoon high close to 90 defoees bere thunderstorms get going today. increase just in time for the evening commute. a lot of possibility to snarl the ride home from work today. >> let's try to g

first 4 traffic melissa mollet is standing by with a look at your traffic. >> chuck bell is off today by l laur ricketts is here with your weather. >>> you'll walk outside today and feel a little less humidity out there today. the sun just came up fiveut min ago. it will be be a beautiful day. you can see it right there. yeah, it's going to be a beautiful day out there. plenty of sunshine. blue skies all day long. 73 degrees is our temperature right now. we go through the 7:00 a.m. hour we tve back into mid-70s and then upper 80s for day time highs today which is about normal for this time of year. dry out there. low humidity. also patchy fog in some spots but we are dry and quiet out there this morning not quiet everywhere. we continue to track this moisture and it's a lot of moisture moving in from barry. take a look at the rain moving into louisiana and jackson, pp mississi we will continue to see heavy rain push into the mid-atlantic. we will talk about that and talk about the heat and humidity heading our way and some of the hottest temperatures we have seen yet this year is comi