for now, from the wilson building, richard jordan, news4, barbara, back to you. >> thanks, richard. >>> right now, the funeral vaunld way for new jersey senator frank lautenberg. here is a live view from where the service is happening. joe biden and hillary clinton are among those delivering eulogies. after the funeral lautenberg's casket will held to the u.s. capitol where lit lie in repose. lautenberg will be buried on friday. he died monday from viral pneumonia. >>> new jersey governor chris christie announced a special election in october to fill lautenberg's senate seat and will happen lee weeks before the general election in november. he says the law, not politics, determines the special election being on a different date from the general election. the state of new jersey spends $12 million to hold an election.

news 4's richard jordan at the live desk. >> take a look at video that will have people driving extra carefully this morning. a massive pileup in central china. 56 cars involved here. 16 crashes all together. it was a deadly chain reaction. chinese officials say thick fog made driving conditions treacherous this morning. state-run media says nine people were killed. the pileup did temporarily shut down an expressway. that left about 1,000 drives stranded on that road for a while but traffic is moving again. definitely a lot of damage to clean up there. at the live desk, i'm richard jordan. >>> a report coming up on the "today" show this morning you want to see. a new wave of car thefts is hitting our country and have police baffled. police say this thief has a small device in his hand, ames it at the car and pops all of the electronic locks without any alarms going off. police say the biggest problem, they have no idea what this high-tech gadget is. >> we've reached out to car manufacturers, the manufacturers of vehicle alarm systems. so far nobody seems to know what this technology i

i'm richard jordan. >> north and south korea will resume talks to reopen the jointly run complex. tensions grew between the two governments after the north's nuclear test in february. a date for those talks to happen has not yet been set. >>> president obama heads to north carolina to to visit the charlotte area and talk about his plan to boost the economy. the president will speak to promote digital earning. it's the third stop on middle class jobs and opportunity tour. he visited austin, texas, and baltimore last month. >>> the first lady will be in campaign mode in virginia headlining a fund-raiser in tyson's corner. tickets are $100. supporters who donate $5 or for can be entered into a contest to attend the event. ken cuccinelli's camp is asking supporters to donate $5 to show they can compete with white house star power. >>> the new jersey democrat will lie in repose in the senate chamber today and will be buried tomorrow at arlington national se cemetery. vice president biden and hillary clinton were among mourners to pay respects there. lautenberg died on monday. >>> the r

at the live desk, i'm richard jordan. >>> new this morning, d.c.es the top ten list of best city parks. according to the trust for public lands park source index, the district ranks sixth among the 50 largest cities. park source rates city park systems on a scale of zero to five park benches. we earned a score of four park benches for being accessible. d.c. didn't get the fifth bench because of low scores on park sizes and a lack of playgrounds. minneapolis took the top spot. new york slid into second place. boston, sacramento and san francisco tied for third. >>> today purple and gold will be the color of choice at the white house. the super bowl champion baltimore ravens will take a trip down i-95 to be honored by president obama at noon today. this is video from march when torrey smith presented the vince lombardi trophy to maryland lawmakers in annapolis. three players who left the team in the off-season won't make the trip, though. including anquan boldin who plays for the team the ravens beat in the super bowl, the 49ers. >>> "4 things to kno

richard jordan at the live desk with breaking news. >> we're watching developments out of philadelphia where the building collapsed yesterday. this morning there's questions into the work conditions at the building before it came crumbling down. we also have new video. you have to stop and see this. a 61-year-old woman was pulled from all that rubble late last night into early this morning. she is the 14th survivor and she's believed to have been in that collapsed building for several hours before she was reached. of course 14 survivors now. many of them have gone to the hospital. one person at least is in critical condition. six people were killed here when this building collapsed adjacent to a thrift store where most of the victims were. we're hearing from the wife of one of the men killed. her husband is an employee at that thrift store and described what he was doing just a few minutes before the building came crumbling down on top of him. >> my daughter called me and said, mommy, put the tv on. i put the tv on. it was bad. it was at 22nd and market. 22nd and market. i call. i took

at the live desk, i'm richard jordan. >>> we're learning at least 20 major league baseball players couldended within weeks in what would be the largest perform enanc performance-enhancing scandal in years. this is word that the center of the scandal is expected to cooperate. alex rodriguez, former n.l. mvp, ryan braun and melky cabrera have all been tied to the clinic. the players could be hit with 100-game suspensions if their ties are confirmed. >>> today an american soldier will plead guilty to one of the most serious war crimes in decades. robert bailz admits he went on a deadly rampage in afghanistan in march of last year. the military says he killed 16 afghans in two villages. most of the victims were women and children. he will avoid the death penalty by entering the guilty plea. he'll still be sentenced to life in prison but he may be eligible for parole at some point. >>> also today a second round of potential jurors will be questioned for the trial against accused crimes boss james "white request" bulger. 250 are called in today on top of the 450 questioned yesterday. the judge

i'm richard jordan. >> i'm erika gonzalez. we hope all of our phafathers o there having a spectacular day. let's check on the forecast. >> let's go to meteorologist chuck bell. eye to the sky. no place to do it than the storm team 4 weather deck. >> plenty of blue skies, but clouds will gradually drop and thicken. here is the way it looks from the tower camera, off to the east this morning. plenty of blue out there, but sky gets grayer and grayer with time, temperatures mild. 74 degrees at national airport. 75 at college park and silver spring. rockville town center, 71. ft. belvoir 72. and a couple of sprinkles in far northern maryland. more across northern west virginia. coming in for later on this afternoon. won't be a complete washout. plenty of clouds around this morning with a couple of showers as well. the steadier rain chances arrive mid to late afternoon. so if you are going to give dad a little nap in the yard in the hammock, get it in early. >> we'll do. all of dads, take it easy today. thanks, chuck. >>> crews chec

for the storm to pass and conditions tomorrow might be a little bet perp at the live desk, i'm richard jordan>>> even a tropical storm could not keep a daredevil from practicing his routine on the high-wire. look at this, blowing in the wind, making everyone nervous. he cancelled the walk because of lightning but yesterday afternoon right back on the tightrope practicing for his walk across the grand canyon later this month. quite the sight. he was given a challenge by the winds but made it across safely. >> i don't get it. >> daredevil. thrill seekers. >> whatever gets you out of bed in the morning. >>> 6:41 is our time right now. i want to get a look at the forecast that includes a lot of rain over the next day or so. let's check in with tom. >> area. you can follow what's going on, too, by checking me out on facebook and twitter. get your latest mobile updates. i'll be posting frequently here as tropical storm andrea gets closer to our region. right now storm team 4 radar showing bands of rain, areas of darker green. moving into southern maryland from car vert counlvert county . moving int

i'm richard jordan. in the news today, a solar plane will go on display at dulles airport today.lar impulse landed after midnight after a ten-hour flight from cleveland it can supply day and night thanks to batteries that stores the solar energy it collects. see it 1:00 to 5:00. the crew hopes to attempt an around the world flight in 2015. >>> president obama will leave d.c. and go to northern ireland to take part in a two-day g8 summit. the white house decided to open the door to arm rebel forces in syria. >>> give yourself plenty of time if you are taking metro. track work on every line and trains are only running every 20 minutes or so. the silver spring, tacoma and brookline stations closed on the red line. everything should be back open in time for tomorrow morning's commute. >>> we'll check the forecast, next. >>> good morning, everybody. meteorologist chuck bell. a cloudy and mild start. temperatures in the upper 60s to low 70s. mostly cloudy skies will eventually lead to a little bit of a rain chance. inbound to martinsburg, and a little bit of chance of scattered showers

. >>> let's check in with richard jordan at the news desk. >> we're hearing from the woman trapped in that factory collapse in bangladesh. she spent 17 days under the rubble. she's now out of the hospital and talking. she says she will never work as a seamstress again. she did suffer a very serious head injury. she now has accepted a new job. she's going to work at the weston hotel in their housekeeping department. her new boss says she's going to be a public area ambassador. she is very grateful for all of those that supported her. she's become a celebrity in bangladesh. back in april 1,100 people were killed when that factory collapsed. it's called the world's worst garment industry disaster. >>> new this morning, north korea says it's open to holding talks with south korea on reopening their jointly run factory. the complex closed in april. tensions there between the two governments after the north korean's nuclear test in february grew. a date for the talks has not yet been set. >>> today the late senator frank lautenberg will lie in repose in the senate chamber. he'll be buried t

. >> i'm richard jordan. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. happy father's day.g, a state of the art solar plane at dulles airport about to go on display. you can see it. details from chuck a little later. we were there when the solar impulse landed after a ten-hour flight from cleveland. u.s. making a cross country trek. solar impulse as wide as a boeing 747 but as light as a passenger car. it can fly day and night. >> if the world would use today, literally all the technologies we demonstrate in polar impulse, we would divide by two our energy consumption and produce half our need with renewable sources. this would create jobs, make profits, the world needs new, efficient products on the market. >> see the solar impulse today at dulles from 1:00 until 5:00. the crew hopes to attempt an around the world flight in 2015. god weather to fly into. but it may not be sticking around all day. >> the big question, how long can we enjoy some blue skies? sewn it over to chuck bell. >> hey, erica and richard, good morning to both of you. good morning, everybody. father's d

hurting women's health generally, and some of us are old enough to remember the texas of ann richards and barbara jordanthat texas could be a blue state again. a lot of forces coming together to make it a galvanizing night for progressives and i hope more than a night. >> was it something, you know -- molly, was it -- do you see it something that fires up or wakes up the progressive base, or something that bleeds over and in effect affects voters who aren't pro choice, democrats, who looked at this and woke them up more generally. how do you see it? >> something inspiring about the image of the little guy standing up against the majority powers against him or her. what joan was saying sounds exactly what i heard conservatives say about when they saw rand paul do his filibuster. people in iowa said you are the first one who stood up to obama like that. it's not about the issue, not about drones in the case, but about the image on that sort of lonely crusade, willing to go to extremeds to stand up for something they believe in. you have the other state senator's comments, saying she is just a teen mom, it

richard. stand by. i want to go back to tony shaffer. someone brought up jordan.k about jordan's ability to handle any spillover. as we know, they're already dealing with the flood of refugees from the syrian crisis. what are they looking ahead at right now? >> well, i think fundamentally, as richard pointed out, turkey is a democracy. i think that's one of the good and bad points. jordan is a kingdom. within the kingdom, you have a number of stressors, which have been present for years, and i think what we're looking agent here is as you have refugees coming in, you have resources which are going to be taken and obviously the military issues relating to the overall support or not support of the syrian regime. i think what we're going to see within jordan is a potential for, again, a continued downward trend of stability. for us right now, and i'm not getting into any secrets here, we have been prestaging resources there for potential action should there be a call to do so. so the mere presence of our forces there may be some sort of antagonism to the local people

richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> this year, there is a civil war next door in syria. u.s. marines practiced demolition exercises. officials with jordan. are playing down links between the exercises and the psoriasis crisis in syria. the u.s. worked with 19 other countries to share information and skills. >> this demolition shows how to use it to provide mobility to a battalion so breaching any obstacles and counter mobility so if you are trying to stop the mobility in an area you can use demolition to do so. >> american officials said the exercises are going on throughout the country but not near the border with syria and there is no plan to leave the soldiers on the ground in syria. >>> getting a chance to be all you can be is getting harder. as many as 75% of young men and women are being denied. what is the problem? >> reporter: every week the same routine. erik is what the army calls -- >> i might want to make a career of it. >> reporter: his mission -- >> it's going to be a culture shock. >> reporter: special forces. he was a shoe in. not just physically fit, he's also ambitious. >> i graduated from brown university in 2010. >>

jordan and iraq to try to book the etiquettes to brazil. now russia is preparing to host them made unwelcome finals in twenty eighteen and as chief executive alexey several king told richard van port fleet the country is looking to learn from the euro two thousand and twelve experiences of co-host ukraine who won out over initial skeptics to produce a successful tournament. crain is exactly the example of how you can fall with to victim of bad p.r. i think they in the end they delivered a very good tournament but suddenly they they were not in the position to in time offset these strange attempts to bring down their effort and to diminish. in the media the endeavor that they embarked on. we will certainly learn from that and we'll be ready to to fully display what we're doing and to be open to to the interest of the audience but your general impressions just self of ukraine was very core duo very well organized. i expected more people to come there but. still there was there was a lot there was a an amazing number which i heard in the media the in excess of one billion euro was exchanged in the in the banks of only ukraine that means a lot of visitors with a lot of money