live here on the national mall, shomari stone. back to you. >> i hate to say know what, i'm kind of with them. it's kind of the logical thing you want to see. you want to see it go up after all this. >> i think the heat's getting to them. >> shomari, keep cool out there, buddy. where shomari is right now he's got a great view but check out this view. wewant to give you this look at the projection from above. just a short time ago chopper 4 got somealew aeri shots of the apollo 11 projection theren the washington monument. isn't that great? this video had folks in the newsroom here pretty excited. >>>.tonight the u.s house voted to condemn president trump's attacks on minority congresswomen that many called racist. only four republicans and one independent voted with democrats on the measure. it was a symbolic but extraordinary rebuke of a sitting president. mr. trump hasn't backed down, either. today he again told the om congres if they aren't happy living in america they can leave. democratic lawmakers fired back on the house flo

we begin with shomari stone on the ground at the theme park in bowie. shomari? >> reporter: well, good evening, lee i don't kn leon and doreen. let me tell you it is hot right now. imagine how it felt around 6:15 today. that is when people were on the fiird ride. we have good news to report. prince george's county fire officials tell me that there were no transports, no one was hurt. let's roll video from social media just to give you what it was like. is video from a guy named jaymes brown on instagram shows people stuck on the ride. now let's show you video from chopper4. it was shot after everyone was safely escorted off the fi bird. a six flags person told us it came to a stop at the lift hill at 6:15 this evening. employees escortid the rs off the popular new roller coaster. the firebird is floorless. there is nothing between the rider feet and the rails below. six flags america officials say interest that's a top speed of 56 miles per hour along a 2900-foot track. now, in a written statement, a spokesperson told me, qfote, the say of our guests is our high

thank you, shomari. now across the potomac from there, the massive clean-up effortderway tonight in northern virginia. >> and it won't be easy for a lot of folks. news 4's jackie benson continues our team coverage now in mclean. jackie? >> reporter: well, take a look behind me here. you can see kirby road is closed, washed out by the storm. it's part of the extensive dame here in northern virginia. and a lot of people think this sort of thing is going to keep happening unless structural changes armade. >> this is where all the water isg cominfrom. >> reporter: this is what it looked like in the 8500 block of lew insville road in mclean. the area was being pounded by several inches of rain. >> this is not normal. unfortunately the infrastructure we built 20, 30 years ago around these streets and the drainage systems is not keeping up with the weather patterns. >> reporter: the damage at one home includes this dead air conditioner unit and piles of t trash t floated in from who knows where. homeowner waspi

live in rockville, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> all right, shomari. thank you. leon? >>> jim, it's bthen neare years since he was gunned down on a late-night walk home. and we still don't know who killed seth rich. but the conspiracy theories surrounding his deth appear to trace back to russia. that's according to a yao! ws investigation. yahoo! spoke with aformer federal prosecutor who looked into the case, and they say that ntys after rich's murder russian intelligence sou a bulletin on an obscure website alleging that rich, who was a dnc staffer at the time, had been assassinated. nbc has not indendently nfirmed that yahoo story. but yahoo is reporting the got an bulletin lat picked up by far right media here, eventually reaching fox news and trump administration allies. the prosecutor also briefed robert mueller, the special counsel, who determined that wikileaks falsely implied that rich had been the source of the leed dnc e-mails. that prosecutor says it appears russia used rich's murder to draw attention away from its efforts in the 2016 dncai e-m hack. >>> new

. >> shomari stone just arrived. shomari? >> reporter: i just got an update from pete parringer. he was telling me there was a cyclist right across the stleet there. you can see there's a bicycle. it's tim over on old georgetown road. we're relatively, i'dfi say, blocks from the beltway. u can see the roadway is aosed on the southbound side. there was bicyclist and an accident in which a car hit the bicyclist. we don't know if the bicyclist lost control and fell into the roadway or if the car collidedit with police are on the scene. they're trying to talk to the driver who came into contact with the bicycle. there are a lot of people particularly during rush hour who are getting off work and they're riding their their destinations. we'll continue to bring you updates. gain, this bicyclist was transported to the hospital in critical condition. that's all we know thus far. yack to youn the studio. >> hope the pull through. >> we know this scene is very close to the suburban hospital, so that mayhelp. thank you, shomari. >>> police officers in virginia are one stepo closer t being a

. >> shomari stone live on the scene at martin luther king jr. avenue southeast. i understand the police chief is there. >> that's right. we're the first on the scenee heras you can see, there's a police cruiser at this jtersection of w street and martin luther king avenue. active scene over here. as you stated there's police chief peter newton being briefed. it's very hot out here people are waiting to cross this tape. let's get to it you see the black van right the? that's a medical examiner's vap and that man will remove the body of a man who is in his late teens to early 20s. the body is now on the other side of that gold van right there and there are police around there. what i'm hearing i just bring you this first on news4 according to policeh cf peter newton there was a man inside the new creation barber shop that you're looking at now on live television. then someone came inside a several shots were fired inside the new creation hair salon barber shop. that is where theictim was killed. now, police say that there were four people who then ran away om the s

shomari stone, news 4. >>> a road is still shut down, the power still out in parts of vienna tonight after this tractor-trailer crashed and took out some power lines. take a look, chopper flew over hunter mill road near hunting crest lane earlier tonight. fairfax county police tell us it will be shut down for an extended period of time.rg dominion eney says it hopes to bring power back on to those who lost it by 8:00 tomorrow morning. >>> meanwhile, in parts of northwest d.c. tonight you mayn ed earplugs or a sound machine to get to sleep. petco tells news 4 that workers are making some noisy repairs at the florida avenue substation. a transformer there malfunctions you may recall on saturday night leaving 35,000 customers without power.pe co says a new transformer will be installed there tomorrow ight. >>> ajor milestone for the purple line. the final beam was put into place in the main building today. the light rail line will entually connect the bethesda and new carrollton metro stations. it's still years away from opening. an optimistic projection right now is la2022. the early e

outside metropolitan police headquarters i'm shomari stone, news 4. >>> andonight d.c.police telle us they'ralso investigating the shooting in the shaw neighborhood. d.c. police say a man was shot this evening around 6:30. it happened her at 8 and o streets northwest. that victim was taken to a hospital, but so far no arrests have been made. >>> now to storm team 4. and what a difference a day makes. our highs today in the 70s. nice relief after aeek of temperatures in the high 90s. but of course it is summer in d.c. and this cooldown won't last f long. >> yeah, enjoy it while we've got it. doug is here to fill us in on what we should expect tomorrow. doug?bout it, >> it will be here long enough, guys. by long enough, it will give us at least a couple of days to enjoy it before the hvet does mo back in. out there today we saw cloud cover, we saw rain, and for some of you you sawrain most of the day. fredericksburg over toward parts of southern maryland you saw that rain just about all afternoon. you can see it now. down to our southern zones. and moving on ou that's the

. >> shomari stone is there live tonight. what have you learned about that? >> reporter: it is a murder mystery. people who live in this northeast d.c. neighborhood are comng up to us asking what happened. now within the last minute or so, that is when a medical aminer's van arrived to remove the bodies of this father and this son who are located in an apartment building behind me. people tell me that this son was incredibly well liked in the neigouorhood. he w go to football practice and then come home. and now they're wondering who killed him, his father, and why. >> i'm hurt. i'm in a lot of pain right now. a lot of pain. >> reporter: elizabeth scruggs is in shock, she says her son and her son were found dead in their apartment. >> all he did was went to school and play football. i'm not understanding why anybody would do this to him. >> elizabeth says a relative found the bodies with several bullet wounds and called police friday evening. homicide detectives roped off the street, questioned people in the neighborhood, and gathered evideane. were ther sign

. >> shomari stone who is live outside d.c. headarters with details. >> good evening. i tell you, d.c. police are searching for four people, four men last seen running away from this murder scene. ene police chief told me this was braz. in broad daylight and there were people walking outside. a mother in the southeast. her son's body, lying behind this blue tarp. >> it's more than sad. it is a feeling you can't express. >> he was walking around 3:30 this evening. he suddenly heard five s or shots. fired from inside the new creation barber shop. >> just running, taking cover. just trying toe hid from the i shooter,'m assuming. i had to take cover myself to see what was going. on iaw people going everywhere. >> very scary. somebody in broad daylight shooting of. >> reporter: four men ran away from the scene. officers were nearby. heard the shots, rsponded and found the man in his late teens to early 20s dead from gunshot wounds. >> the exact circumstances as to what occurred. 're still looking into it. anybody who knows this block knows a lot of people out here on a rgul

shomari stone, news4. >> some amazon employees spent tod protesting while the company's big annual shoppingevent prime day is under way. amazon workers in minnesota participated in a six-hour walkout demandingbetter working conditions. the company's speedy shipping leads the company to favor speed over safety. despite the walkout, amazon expects prime day deliveries to arrive on time. >>> only on news4, a teacher accused of recording studen undressing was freed on bond today. and northern virginia bureau chief was right there to question him on those charges. >> why did you secretly record your students and teenage girls? >> police arrested raphael schklowsky in april for unlawful filming. a student said she found a recording device. they found dozens of recording devices and charged him with child porn. many of the girls in the vtoeo appear attend herndon high behool. he's suspended without pay. >> a white supremacist received a second life sentence today. he was sentenced to life plus 419 years on state charges.t lasmonth he was slapped with a lif sentence on federal hate crime charges. f

live here at logan circle in d northwest., i'm shomari stone,ws ne4. >> michael hilliard is scheduled to be in court on august 21st. >>> we have new video tonight of mourners remembering a father and son who were shot to death. h hughashington and akeelhi waston scruggs were found dead in their apartment last week. family and friends gather near the home toor hon the victims' memory. there was no sign of forced entry. they didn't find a gun at the scene either. keel played football at the dunbar high school. he was a well-liked kid who did well in school. another vigil is planned for tomorrow night at dunbar. >>> turning now to the storm team 4 weaer forecast, pretty mild temperatures this week. and we needed it after that heat wave. >> boy, did we. but guess what?re we'et to see those temps rise all over again, folks. doug's here with a look ahead and sounds like tomorrow is going to be the day to be outdoors, right? >> yeah, as we head toward the weekend that's when the heat wave gets und way. our average temperature is 88, that's where we were today. about where we expect to be thi

in northeast d.c., shomari ste news4. >> there's been a spike in violence in the district since late last ye r. so far this year d.c. policeay there have been 85 homicide. >>> our live team coverage on tropical storm barry continues. >> we'll be going to take you live to new orleans to get an update on conditions there right now. >> also ahead, amazon's arrival could shake up another local community. we'll hear why some of the neighbs aren't rolling out the red carpet. >>o disturbing vide showing a driver hitting a police officer, sending him flying. the car didn't even bothe to the car didn't even bothe to r we are sisters. and we just moved in together. why alissa and aleah chose fios. we stream sooo much. a lot of times alissa is watching tv on her laptop, using her phone, also using her tablet.t i am really good altitasking cause i'm awesome. a little. the best internet is even better at our best price. switch now and get our fastest speeds available. plus, a free samsung chromebook on us. that's fios. >>> the developer of a community in prince george's county explaanns the pl fo

that's where shomari stone kicks off our team coverage night. >> take a look at this master bathroom here. it's not like a home ener could come and take a bath because i is a complete mess. right over here, this is a part of the ceiling,insulation, and i'm sure he would like to come itre and be able to brush his teeth. not going to happen. and look up here, that is a gaping hole in the roof. above.actually see the stars the homeowner says that he's glad that no one was injured, however, it's going to take thousands of fillars to all this damage. >> i was like, oh, my god, it's the end of the world right now. >> reporter: douglas is surrounded in branches after this huge tree crashed on his family's deck in the backyard. he was inside his house around 5:45 wednesday evening when heavy rain and wind caused the tree to also slam on the roofr focing the ceilings to fall on the tile floor. the damage and this week's heat is too much tow bare right no >> you're sweating. your skin is always wet. you can't get awayt.from tha >> reporter: people want to get away. the heat index is sometimes

. >> ank you, shomari. >> there's a new b scandalrewing in washington. some 70 membersof congress are now calling the labor secretary, alex acosta to resign. >> he's under scrutiny for his role in a controversial plea agreement for accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein on the same day another accuser comes forward to accuse epstein of rape. acosta is defending his role. th>> is a controversy that has quickly becoming a distraction for president trump's administration. trump doesn't like that kind of stuff. co it is growing wendy and leon. secretary aa said he made a good and fair deal in 2008 when heng arraed that plea dea the man is facingch new arges and new prosecution. so the secrery is facin new scrutiny. the man who runs the u.s. labor department is trying to save his own job. >> my relationship with the president is outstanding. he has he has very publicly made clear that i've got his support. >> secretary alex acosta was a federal prosecutor in miami in 2008. when he cut a case for wealthy financier jeffrey epstein. ending the investigation. sin

news 4's shomari stone attended a rally attended by community activists. they are asking localsi rents to help investigate in the shootings. >> reporter: they walk against gunfire in the district. and four days of fatal shootings. seven people murded including 11-year-old karon brown. >> when i heard about the last one with the little kid, i was disturbed. >> reporter: antoine jones is a community activist. it's hurting me that we're hurting each other. in the story seen on four, people who live in southeast pray for peas. >> it's about all of us standing together in unity so that we can stop the violence in our communities and we can reclaim our communities, and that's going to take ace ced effort from each and every person surrounded in this circle right here? e circle, or cycle of violence is seemingly endless. e ief peter newsham says can't recall such a violent four days. >> i think in recent memory i don't so this is particularly disturbing to have this many r homicides ovehe course of the weekend. >> a vigil will be held tonight for 11-year-old karo