To get to our destinations. Local triplea officials are concerned because this years fourth of july falls on a saturday. Gas prices are low. Some people may have a few drinks. Lots of factors come into play here, and you cant forget the rain in the forecast. You wont have any trouble hitting the road in wheaton this morning. Crews are done putting Georgia Avenue back together after a water main broke. Things were back to normal around 10 00. As soon as wssc announced that everything was fixed, the southbound lanes had been closed since wednesday near arcola avenue when a water main break flooded the street with 2. 5 million gallons of water. Muggy leading into the Holiday Weekend. Did you notice the fog on your way in . Tom says folks are going to have to deal with that right tom . Use your low beams and slow down. I ran into it especially in the rural areas. Maybe where there are open fields. Theres ground fog thats drifting over roadways this morning. Watch out for the next couple of hours. Otherwise, well have hazy sunshine for the morning commute with that patchy fog. Temperatures will be right around 70 degrees. Then during the afternoon mostly cloudy. Most roads dry. Might get a passing shower this afternoon. There is a small chance temperatures should be right around 80 degrees by later this afternoon. Right now much of the region were down into the low 60s where we have patchy fog in some of the rural areas. Just near 60 degrees. Shenandoah valley out of the mountains. Its only in the 50s around the immediate metro area. Were right in the mid to upper 60s. Now melissa is checking in with the morning commute. Going pretty well so far. Going pretty well. Well keep an eye on the things for you. Perhaps folks will start to head out of town. Wouldnt that be nice to be out of the way here . Right now at 56 and 95. 66 you can see yellow here headed inbound. Thats where we have the heaviest fog this morning. Folks are slowing down. Construction has been stopped in virginia as of noon yesterday. You dont have that in the way. 95 here northbound. Southbound, no problems. There is where were seeing the fog along 66. Wide look at the beltway overall. Rolling along quite nicely. Prince georges county also looking quite good. A live picture for you. 270 at old hundred road and there could be fog there throughout the morning. Just a warning there for you. Back in ten minutes. A developing story now from the live desk. An explosion in south korea killed five. It happened at a Chemical Plant inside the waste storage felt there. You see it just torn apart. The victims were welding at the time of the explosion. Why it happened, no one knows just yet. They think maybe there were some gas trapped and n that storage area and that may have triggered the blast. One person right now is still missing. Aaron. Kristen wright for us. Thank you. 4 34, and by 6 00 tonight the son of late councilman marion barry will report to jail. He was sentenced to 15 days after he was caught driving with a revoked license. Barry will serve the team on weekends. There is no evidence the irs told employees to destroy or hide information from congress. Some lawmakers accuse the agency of erasing emails related to the irss tea party scandal. Investigators found employees erased computer backup tapes by mistake. The lost email investigation is part of a larger probe into the treatment of conservative groups when they applied for tax exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 election. A group that wanted to plaster ads of the prophet mohammed on buss and trains has sued metro. The American FreedomDefense Initiative says Transit Agency violated its free speech after refusing to post the ads. After the mohammed submission metro banned all political and religious advertising for the remainder of the year. The cartoons featured in the ad won a contest in garland, texas, which was the site of a deadly shooting. This morning we are hearing from passengers who were on board a flight diverted from dulles. We are learning that a woman started making threats on the united express. The flight left st. Louis en route to dulles when the pilot was forced to land the plane in columbus ohio. I was told to put my tray up my computer away, and we were only about halfway through the flight and then we took a nosedive right towards the ground and sdwrus did a really quick landing. I thought this isnt dulles airport. Officers arrested the woman. The remaining passengers were isolated with their luggage in a far corner of the airport whale bomb sniffing dogs checked them all out. They didnt find anything. There is no word on what the threat exactly was. The newly named president of Sweet Briar College is making it clear, the school is open for business. Yesterday phillip stone and a new governing board took control of sweet briar. It rescued the 114yearold Womens College from the brink of closure. Its something a lot of people turn to to take pictures of themselves a selfie stick. Why did it land a montgomery man in jail . The shocking allegations against him. Its a massive data breach thats impacting a lot of you. Now its calling the office of Personnel Management to go old school. The next time you need a security clearance, what youll notice. The Holiday Weekend is upon us. Time to put together your weekend beach forecast and well have that in your next weather if you are applying for a security clearance grab a pen. Some hackers broke into networks at the office of personnel nell management. The agency is going back to the oldfashioned paper forms in questionnaires. Earlier this week theyll be able to sht down the online database. They say they want to upgrade security on the website so that could be down for six weeks. Montgomery county police say a bethesda man used a selfie stick to secretly record his neighbor. Police say 60yearold donald beard taped his female neighbor through her sliding glass door for more than a year. Investigators found 16 videos and audio recordings when they searched his home and car. Veer said he only took the videos to prove the woman was having affairs with married men. He has pled not guilty to four charges. Weather traffic on the ones now. You may be dodging some raindrop on your Holiday Weekend. Thats right. Lets go to storm team 4 meteorologist tom here. Im standing about i. Were standing by and temperatures around the region are hovering in the low 60s. We have patchy dense fog. This is the latest visibility. Prince William County and the panhandle of west virginia. Elsewhere visibility swrenly under a mile. Metro areas also dont have fog as well as around the bay. Your beach forecast, you are hitting the atlantic beechlz all the way down down. Temperatures in the lower 70s. That is swimmable. For the rest of the day there at the beaches afternoon highs reaching the upper 70s and quite humid. Humid tomorrow. Partly sunny. Afternoon Thunder Showers looking likely, and temperatures in the mid to upper 70s at the beaches. Then on sunday looks like the best day at the beach. Partly cloudy. A little less hooumt humid. Atures in the mid 70s right at the atlantic beaches. A look at our forecast inland for the fourth of july weekend. Our chances for storms theres weather coming on the ones at 4 51. How is the getaway traffic . Nice and light. Just look at the day breaker. Too dark to show you that camera this morning. No problems eastbound or westbound on the if you are headed out of town any time soon, look at the fog. This is the fog tom has been telling us about over the american legion. 66, no problems. 95 also looking pretty good headed up to 270. Northbound southbound rolling along quite nicely. 95. Again, northbound, southbound looking good here, and then a drive up 95 you can see no problems in the way. Remember to look into our friends on wto 103. 5 for the latest on traffic. Melissa, thank you. Beaten over birthday cake. This morning were learning more about a 9yearold maryland boy fighting for his life. And we just learned about a Russian Rocket on the way to the International Space station. Kristen wright gathering details at the live desk and wel new this morning. A Russian Rocket is on its way to space. Take a look. Maximum thrust and liftoff. This is important. Its carrying supplies to the crew up at the International Space station. Things like food, water spare parts, equipment. Things they need. The crew at the International Space station i think its a threeman crew, that nervously awaiting this delivery after two recent failed attempts to get supplies up there. The Russian Rocket is unmanned so again, its just cargo. The International SpaceStation Program really relies on russian spacecraft after the grounding of the u. S. Shuttle fleet some time ago. Hell be hearing more about it. Thank you. It is 15 after the hour now, and this will be an intense holiday for folks in d. C. Across the nation, actually. A lot of people are on edge. Nbcs brian mooar live on capitol hill with more on what thousands of folks headed to the mall need to be thinking about and watching for. Good morning. Good morning, aaron. Well this is a typical july 4th where were once again under one of those terror alerts that really had no basis in terms of a credible threat. Authorities say this is a little different this year because, of course, isis has been calling through social media for attacks on any target of opportunity here in the United States and then, of course, it includes right here in the nations capital. Yesterday we saw a big scare at the navy yard where there was a report of shots fired that turned out to be unfounded. Huge police response. Thats the kind of preparation that Police Departments around the country are undergoing right now. They say they hope they will not have the need on july 4th during this long Holiday Weekend. Authorities from new york to San Francisco to wichita kansas, all saying the same thing on this holiday. If you see something, say something. More live on capitol hill. Now back to you. Thank you. We are already hearing about one fourth of july event canceled because of concerns. A celebration planned for tomorrow at the British Royal air force base will not happen. The base says that is due to the most current threat assessment. If you are scratching your head about a British Air Force base celebrating the fourth of july this is actually a base that is largely run by the United States air force and so this is not all that uncommon. The man chargeed in a d. C. Mansion murder is looking for a new defense team. Again, aaron wit over a difference of opinion. Hanover took over the case after wint fired the public defender that originally represented him. Wint will now go back to that public defender. Hanover says he still supports wint and believes more people are involved. We believe he is set up. Set up by somebody else who was involved . Its a presumption. We should have investigated that too. I would certainly say thats an interesting point. Wints preliminary hearing will now be delayed. He is going to be back in court later this month. D. C. Police identify the man whose body was found inside a burning trash can. Police say someone shot 19yearold Heineken Mcneil of southeast d. C. Before he was burned. He was found in the trash on holbrook terrace in the trinidad neighborhood. Police are offering a 25,000 reward. If you have any information, which could lead to a conviction in this case. The 9yearold boy in Critical Condition after almost being beaten to death over a slice of birthday cake. The haagerstown Police Department arrested the his mothers boyfriend and charged him with first degree assault. Police say that Robert Wilson got mad because the 9yearold ate a piece of cake without permission. Charging documents say wilson dragged the boy into a bedroom handcuffed him, and then beat him. A wildfire in Washington State is now under control after destroying almost 30 homes. Firefighters say the sleep where i hollow wildfire is now about 98 contained. The wildfire was fueled by high temperatures and strong winds. Almost 3,000 acres have burned. More than 300 firefighters fought the blaze which started on sunday. Were learning that at least 200 people had to be evacuated from their homes. There is no word though, on what started that fire. A u. S. Drone strike killed a senior isis leader in sear wra. His name is tariq u. S. Official saz he coordinated the use of suicide bombing attacks in iraq and helped with movements of foreign fighters back and forth across the syrian border. Officials say that his death will hurt the Islamic State abilities to move foreign fighters. Health investigators in liberia now trying to figure out how three people were infected with ebola. A 17yearold boy died earlier this week. He was the first recorded case since the country declared it was free of that deadly virus last month. The government says two other people who shared a meal with that teenager have also been infected. A court clerk in kentucky being sued because she wont issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. Four couples are suing rowan county clerk kim davis. She says her christian beliefs prevent her from going along with last Weeks Supreme Court ruling. The aclu also joining this lawsuit. Now to get around issuing licenses to sames. Couples, davis has stopped issuing licenses to all couples. Arlington police are trying to find a black toyota preus after it was stolen by a man more pretending to be a valley. Lewis wolf is an amputee and couldnt find any parking near the door at the courtyard marriott at crestal city on wednesday. He went up to a man standing at the door and asked if he was a valley valet. He replied yes. When he finished with his meeting, his car was gone and so was the man. In hindsight i should have seen is all clear. Why doesnt you he have a uniform . Im disappointed in myself for not realizing. Im also sad because that car my late wife and i bought new. Valets say they always advertise their prices with big signs. They hand out claim tickets. Be looking for those things. Ladies im told that i should encourage you to come to your tv screen and get ready to sweat for the next story. Take a look. Bryce harper on the cover of espns body issue. Right there on the cover. As you can see the nats slugger is in a birthday suit. Nothing but dirt on him apparently. In the interview harper discussed his body as well as injuries and the clubs world series expectations. He says he takes a lot of pride in working out and can squat 405. You can check out espns body issue online monday. It hits newsstands next friday. His hair looks good. Gooddo. Little poofy thing there. Playing it cool. Is that something that men say to impress . I can bench 405. Good day. I can bench 370. He is out ranking me. We got a little bit of fog around. People are going to be leaving maybe early for the holiday. The storm team 4 sky cast 4 showing haze and a little bit of fog in the air for the morning. Just a few clouds coming through into the afternoon. Clouds will be thickening up as we fwet into the afternoon hours and then overnight tonight. Looks like thats when the rain will be arriving. Right now storm team 4 radar showing good travel weather up around 95 between washington and boston and down towards atlanta. Theres a few showers north of atlanta, tennessee valley, if you are on interstate 40 going that way. Youll be driving into rain. Some of the rain along 95. What to wear today . Well, you wont need the umbrella through the day, but you may need the sun block and the sunglasses that skies will be kind of a hazy milky bright and its going to be warm in the afternoon. Youll need those short sleeves. Right now its cool. If you slept with the windows open it was quite cool this morning. Mid 60s right by the bay. Theres the capital right now. No fog in the city. Patchy fog in the rural areas. Well be in the upper 60s 8 00 a. M. And then by noon upper 70s. Temperatures right around 80 degrees. Showers moving in late tonight and saturday morning. Then maybe a sun out midday saturday and then afternoon storms with temperatures in the low 80s. The parades and picnics unfortunately may be interrupted by passing Thunder Showers during the afternoon. It looks like theyll be ending now. The latest timing by sunset. The fireworks display should be dry. On sunday partly cloudy. The mid 80s. Less humid. Beautiful day. The best day will be on sunday. As you get back to work on monday, auto could get afternoon storms. Chance each day after that of afternoon storms. On tuesday, wednesday and again thursday. Each of those days highs right around 90 degrees and quite humid. Now, melissa right around the roads. Sounds like its off to the shoulders and shouldnt be slowing things down. Crash sounds like it was off to the right shoulder. Just showing you more along 66 ooesz here of Prince William parkway eastbound, westbound. Travel lanes are open. Very foggy. Just be careful there. This morning seeing a slowdown there on 66 because of that. Beltway of Central Avenue inner loop and outer loop. Taking a look at bw parkway. No problems there. Back at 5 01. Weather and traffic on the ones. Ill see you then. Melissa, thank you. Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are. How the power of social media helped her find herself and her family. Metro is cracking down on bus drivers caught using cell phones behind the wheel. Were learning that four metro Bus Operators were fired last year for using their phones while driving. Metro put a zero tolerance policy in place in 2009. The transet agency tells news 4 no train operators were fired for using their phones last year. After five months a woman in san diego has finally rediscovered who she is. Now in colorado and maryland after a global search. Steven luke has more from our sister station in san diego. If you have ever wondered what it looks like to find yourself they found me. Meet 54yearold ashley who after months of wondering hamm has a family she doesnt remember. To be able to track people down february 1st near st. Patrick Catholic Church in carlsbad. Doctors delivered a grim diagnosis. Ovarian cancer. It led to metro grade amnesia. Debbie russ might be ashleys real life angel. Registered nurse turned friend made it her mission to find her family. After talking with her two sisters for the first time tears and many, many questions answers slowly returned. Apparently i was on my way to tucson. They didnt hear from me, which they didnt think was odd because i traveled a lot. She often traveled to australia. Many of her first memories were of being there. The fbi put out word about her case all over the globe. Eventually a Facebook Post reached more than 21 million people. It helped her find her family. For all the sort of odd or maybe down sides to social media, its nice to see some real positives. Wonderful to hear stories like that. Stay with us. News 4 today continues right now at 5 00 a. M. Its what everyone is thinking about this morning. The Holiday Weekend. Will the weather hold out, and will you run into a lot of traffic on the good morning everybody. Aaron gilchrist. Im erica gonzalez. Welcome to news 4 today. The weather could be a little better, but its friday. We wont complain. Its always that highlight. Lets take a look at the weather headlines right now. Heres meteorologist tom kierein. The big story on this get away day. Theres fog we have patchy dense fog in some of the rural areas. Look at the visibility. Down to zero in manassas. Parts of Northern Virginia this is down at zero visibility. Just a quarter to a half a mile. Culpepper down to a half a mile. Half mile visibility in frederick. Closer to washington though not as much fog as well as around the bay. Some of the mountain valleys as well have a little bit of fog around. A little light fog there at the capitol. By 7 00 well number the upper 60s. Still patchy fog around. Then by 9 00 the low 70s, and then late morning well be in the upper 70s with increasing clouds as we get into the afternoon. Now lets check on the get away traffic this morning. We do understand its on the shoulder. This is near gallos road. The crash is on the shoulder. Wide look at the beltway must be good. Green. No major problems