Bring the olympics to d. C. Coming up, who is behind this new effort. Good morning and welcome to news 4 midday, im barbara harrison. Parents are giving us their reaction to a new report about gunshots near their childs school. Students in certain parts of d. C. Often hear bullets fired while in class. Molette green joins us live in southeast washington. What are the parents saying . Reporter barbara, just imagine ten gunshots fired within 1,000 feet of your kids school. That was the case at bruce monroe elementary in northwest. Theres a new study that finds exposure to closerange gunshots near some schools in d. C. Is significant. When parents walk their little ones to school, for some the last thing on their minds is gunfire inside or outside a school yard. But others are more aware that it could happen. I would, because the area that i live in is kind of dangerous. Reporter and heres what parents need to know. A new urban Institute Report found a small number of d. C. Schools had a high number of gunshots in the 20112012 school year. Shots fired in close enough range that kids inside a classroom could hear them. For example, the study found an costia high in southeast had five shots fired within 1,000 feet of the building, and two shots fired within 500 feet. You be terrified for your kids. Thats why i bring my kids to school and from school. No matter what area youre in, it can be in a different area, in the inner city or in the suburbs. Reporter and that leaves parents more concerned about the impact on their child when he or she hears gun violence sitting in a classroom. Whats going through their minds, theyre probably scared, probably want to feel secure and feel safe and its up to the teachers and parents to Work Together and the community too to be involved and they just think its not my problem because its not my kids. Reporter the studys author says they want this information to raise awareness. Like that last parent in my story, the next step is to examine the impact of this exposure on our children. Now, for a complete list of the schools involved in the findings of this study, go to nbcwashington. Com. We are live in southeast d. C. Back to you, barbara. Right now firefighters are trying to find out what started a fire that killed a woman in rockville. A neighbor spotted the house on fire around 4 30 this morning and called 911. This is on iris street near aspen hill road. A man told crews his mother was still inside. Rescuers found her upstairs. She died at the hospital. Another man who lived nearby described the scene. He didnt want his face shown on camera. When i got here, the Fire Department was there are on the scene. The ladder truck had already deployed. There was smoke billowing out of the upper floors. The woman who died was in her 70s. Two firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion. Firefighters believe the fire started in the basement. Theres a new effort to bring the 2024 olympics to the washington region. The d. C. 2024 bid organization launched this website just a few hours ago. Arlington countys board chair already announced support for the olympic bid. The website also introduces its board of directors, which includes prominent businessman ted leontis. He owns the capitals and the wizards, of course. If you have been out there this morning, you know it is humid out there. Veronica johnson joins us with her first midday forecast. Good morning. Good morning, barbara. Yeah, the muggies already getting us here the late part of the morning, early part of the afternoon. Here we are on the other side of labor day and today going to feel like midjuly across the area. Temperatures are climbing. Were at 83 degrees currently across the area. Yes, higher humidity for the afternoon, so were going to go from warm to hot not just for today but the next couple of days. Manassas at 82, same thing around falls church. When you factor in the humidity that is climbing from the southwest around virginia, moving up to the north, you can add 2, even 5 degrees to those air temperatures out there where it feels like 87. Many neighborhoods already 88 in leesburg and, yes, a few sprinkles on radar. Well show you where and where there could be a storm threat today and especially coming up this weekend, guys. Thank you. Investigators are questioning whether a father forgot his son in the back of a car leading to the childs death. Someone found the 17monthold in a car parked at the Naval Air Station patuxant river in maryland. The Naval Investigative Service says the childs father works on the base, but ncis officials havent released how long the baby was in the car. Right now the jury is back in the deliberation room examining the evidence in the mcdonnell corruption trial. Jurors have now deliberated more than 13 hours with no verdict. Virginias former governor and his wife have been charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from businessman Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting his company. Stay with news 4 on air and online for breaking updates as soon as there is a verdict. And right now about 100,000 of you in Prince Georges County are still under a boil water advisory. The advisory impacts 11 communities. Its all because of a 24inch water main that broke tuesday night in hyattsville. Some schools and businesses brought in extra bottled water and boiled everything from the faucet yesterday. A spokesperson for the wssc says this is all precautionary. The advisory is expected to go on until at least tonight. And right now the Justice Department is launching a civil rights investigation into the Police Department of ferguson, missouri. Coming up, what that investigation will focus on. He came up out of the water. Shes describing a shark attack. Well tell you what happened next. And you may see a lot of people Walking Around in white later today carrying food with them. Well tell you about our popup dinner party coming to d. C. For the very first time. Stay with us, well be right back. As we exit summer and head into fall, were seeing record low gas prices. Aaa says gas will keep falling another 10 to 20 cents over the next month. In the district a gallon of gas will run you about 3. 59. In maryland youre paying an average of 3. 38 for a gallon. Great news in virginia, youve got the lowest prices around, 3. 18 on average for a gallon of gas. In west virginia, youll see gas at an average of 3. 45. Happening today, mayor vincent gray is trying to convince a major Tourism Group to host an event here in d. C. The mayor is in the middle of a tenday trip to china. The federation promotes the Tourism Industry in more than 100 cities around the world. Well, if you keep maxing out your cell phone data limit every month, it may be because of facebook. Unless youve changed your default settings, all of the videos and news feeds will begin to play automatically both on wifi and on 3g and 4g networks. You can change the auto play feature so that it only works with wifi. Heres a really scary story. A trip for two kayakers could have easily been their last. They narrowly escaped an attack by a great white shark. The women were waiting off the coast of massachusetts yesterday in an attempt to see the seals out there. Then out of nowhere, the shark took a bite out of their kayak and flipped them into the water and thats when the girls say things got much scarier. We were sitting in the water and she was sinking and i was flipped over holding on to the bottom of the kayak. It was petrifying waiting in that water for the harbor master to come and not knowing if anybody was going to come get us. The scariest part was sitting in the water, wondering where he was. Fortunately, a neighbor heard their screams for help and called 911. The women were not hurt and they admit they should not have been near the seals and they want this to be a lesson to others. Well, the first step of getting into college is getting a College Degree is actually getting into college. Coming up, the Maryland School making the process a little bit easier. Veronica, whats the weather going to be like today . We are already over 80 degrees out here. A little bit of a light breeze coming through but its going to be steamy, sticky later and there will be some storms. Ill show you exactly where those storms will fire a little later and when the high heat and humidity, all of that is going to retreat. Thats all next on news 4 tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. 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Later today, the Justice Department will launch a civil rights investigation into the Police Department in ferguson, missouri. This is separate from the fbi case into Michael Browns death. Officials will dig into the ferguson departments conduct over several years, including complaints of Excessive Force on People Police come into contact with. News 4s Pete Williams explained one key issue that may come up. One issue is likely to be the ferguson Police Departments hiring practices. While the community is about 70 black, roughly 1 of the citys Police Officers are black. Under attorney general eric holder, the Justice Department has been more aggressive in launching these kinds of investigations into Police Departments. The case follows the shooting of michael brown, an unarmed black teenager, killed at the hands of a white police officer. Police in ferguson faced widespread criticism for using militarystyle equipment on protesters, angry over browns killing. Right now president obama is wrapping up the first meeting at the nato summit in wales. He is taking a break to meet with jordans king abdullah. This afternoons meeting will focus on the crisis in ukraine. This mornings meeting focused on the nato combat mission in afghanistan and the growing threat of isis. U. S. Officials estimate upwards of 100 americans are fighting for isis in the middle east. Nbc news spoke to one of them. 44yearold Donald Morgan was raised in a catholic home in south carolina. He was once a Deputy Sheriff and a member of the national guard. He spoke with nbc news earlier this summer about his efforts to join isis in syria. Someone has to defend islam, and somebody has to defend innocent muslims. I purchased a ticket with the intent of entering syria and either joining up with medical and food aid convoys or directly with islamic state. Reporter morgan was arrested last month at jfk airport in new york on a gun charge. He pleaded not guilty this morning. Hes due back in court next month. President obama is now getting help spreading his message that isis will not intimidate the u. S. Mark murray, nbc senior political editor, is here to explain. Good morning. Good morning, barbara. During our show yesterday we heard that the president say that he would not be intimidated. Who else is joining in his voice, others in the administration now . We heard from Vice President joe biden who ended up remarking that were going to follow isis into the gates of hell, you know, and banish them there. And defense secretary chuck hagel is also very tough, used the language destroy. So you have seen this rampedup rhetoric from the Obama Administration. The question becomes whats next. Its very easy to have all this kind of rhetoric, but also end up having a political strategy on what to do with isis, particularly in the tricky country of syria. You mentioned yesterday the president sent a mixed message because he also said to contain it or make it controlled. He talked about a manageable problem. I think when you look at the president s remarks, and i read the transcript three different times, when he was talking about degrading and destroying iraq, that was the long term, the goal. He basically said this is going to take a while. The manageable problem in containing it was the shortterm issue. Before you end up degrading and destroying it, you have to deal with it. But, barb remarks it is important to note that the president has been a little imprecise in his words. Hes been a little bit sloppy, particularly when words matter so much. News organizations, journalists like you and me, we latch on to a sentence or a paragraph, and that can sometimes knock out all the context that might be there. So is the president getting less or more criticism today . Hes getting tons of criticism. Hes getting it from his party. There are vulnerable democrats who are up for reelection this cycle who want more action. The question is what action do they want. Has anybody said . Well, they want you know, they believe that we should be arming the syrian rebels. Some say that we should end up having strikes in syria. What the Obama Administration is weighing is that youve got to be very cautious on this stuff. If you go ahead first on things, you can end up having unintended consequences. Do you end up strengthening iran. Do you end up strengthening Bashar Al Assads regime in syria. So the administration is trying to create a bigger political coalition, having arab states, europe, all be involved. Of course that takes some time. And those criticizing are not all speaking with one voice. There are a lot of different ideas about how it ought to be solved. When theres a crisis, youre going to have a lot of criticism. Thanks so much. For more from mark and the rest of the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbcnews. Com. Well in, just a few hours were going to get to see revised plans on a memorial to honor president dwight d. Eisenhower. Designers need approval from the National Capital planning commission. This past spring the panel objected to the large metal tapestries. They said it could block views of the u. S. Capitol. Planners also wanted more Pedestrian Access and better lighting. Designers will present their revisions to the board at 1 00 this afternoon. Well look forward to see what they look like. A college in baltimore is introducing a unique College Application process. Low test scores, bad transcripts, no problem. Students can apply by submitting a twominute video using their smartphones. The college says the move is designed to help students fear their grades and test scores arent good enough. Students must answer how do you see yourself. Videos will be evaluated on content, structure and clarity. The video app will be available for next years incoming class. Moviemaking in virginia. The campaign to attract more of hollywood just ahead. The special dinner Party Taking Place for the first time in d. C. , happening tonight. But first heres a look at whats hot on nbcwashington. Com. Im Richard Jordan at the live desk. Weve got the list of this years Kennedy Center honorees. Al green at the top of that followed by sting, another musician as well, filmmaker and Actor Tom Hanks is on there, comedienne lily tomlin and ballerina patricia mcbride. They will be honored at the Kennedy Center december 7th followed by a reception at the white house. President obama a big al green fan. You probably remember when the president sang a little bit of one of greens songs not too long ago, so it is bound to be a Pretty Good Party up there here at the end of the year. Sounds great. Well, virginia is hoping to build up the states Film Industry and attract some big projects. The new program is in the works that will prepare workers for film, television and commercial projects in the commonwealth. A twoday seminar will be held next month in richmond for people looking for entry level positions within the Film Industry. Youve probably heard of it, everything in the White Popup Dinner Party coming to d. C. For the first time today. Hundreds of people will have dinner together outdoors at an outdoor location. They will find out where thats going to be. Were about to find out a whole lot about it. Denae burkeson joins us to talk about the popup picnic. Where did it start . It started in paris, right . It started 25 years ago in paris by a group of friends who wanted to do an intimate dinner experience but add some fun and excitement. Over the years, its grown and we just did one last week in new york that was about 4500 people. Is it invitation only . A lot of people know