This morning. Are they causing delays . They have. Chopper 4 right now over top of the beltway. This is the outer loop between colesville and georgia there. Now, we were hearing about a crash perhaps some carpet rolls in the roadway that had fallen off of a truck causing a crash. We are not seeing that at this point this morning. Were going to get more information, of course, and pass it along. Beltway at braddock road moving nicely. Wider look, we look pretty good really. A little slow b. W. Parkway inside the beltway, but thats pretty typical for this time of morning. 95 in virginia, coming through Stafford County, all my friends down there headed north a little bit slow from an earlier crash. 66 typically slow running about 45 miles per hour. Im back in ten minutes at 6 11. Thank you. 6 01. Now to a developing story. President obama asking congressional leaders for authorization to train Syrian Opposition forces in the fight against isis. The white house now acting quickly to ramp up the effort against that terror group. The president may also want more wideranging air strikes against targets in iraq and possibly syria. Well learn more about the president s isis strategy later tonight. He will present that plan to the nation in a primetime address right here on nbc 4. It begins at 9 00. In the meantime, the white house is starting the groundwork for International Support. News 4s angie goss has more from the live desk. Hi, aaron. Secretary of state john kerry is in iraq meeting with the countrys new leaders. Now, this is the first highlevel u. S. Facetoface with Prime Minister abadi. The main mission, to make clear without an inclusive government, the u. S. Cannot support the fight against isis in their country. Forming a coalition against the militants, that is top of mind right now. Before he leaves, kerry will also sit down with iraqs new president. Aaron . Angie, thank you. And you can look for more on this story throughout the morning on news 4 today. Well have more also on an nbc news poll on isis in a live report coming up at 6 45. 6 03. Police want to know where is this family. 27yearold katherine huggle, her son and daughter went missing in Montgomery County more than 48 hours ago. And what makes their disappearance so strange is that they all went missing at three different times. 2yearold son jacob never your honor ared to his grandparents home sunday night in gaithersburg after his mom said she took him for pizza. Early monday morning huggle told the kids father she was taking 3yearold sara to day care. Sara hasnt been seen since. And that same night the couple stopped at a chickfila in germantown on their way to get help from police. But huggle slipped out of the restaurant. Family and friends passed out flyers last night in hopes of getting answers. Pray and if someone sees them to contact the police. Any message to your daughter . Please come home. I just want my freakin kids back, dude. Thats it. Thats it. Thats all. Officers think that she may have boarded a bus at a nearby transit center. Police say huggle is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and the key to finding hermes be the key to finding her children. If you have any information on her or her childrens whereabouts, contact police. Right now in arlington, the search is on for the men police say tried to kidnap a teenager. This happened monday night on south 12th street not far from columbia pike. Investigators say the 18yearold was trying to get into her car when two men grabbed her from behind. She fought back and suffered minor injuries. The men ran away when they noticed a police car responding to another incident. New calls for an investigation this morning after the release of the ray rice assault video. The president of the new Jersey State Senate wants to know why a county prosecutor did not pursue a case against rice. And ravens owner steve bishotti is responding for the first time. He said the ravens did ask police, prosecutors and the revel casino for the video. But those requests were denied. He now says, quote, seeing that video changed everything. We should have seen it earlier. We should have pursued our own investigation more vigorously. We didnt and we were wrong. Nfl commissioner Roger Goodell says the league also tried to get that elevator video and was denied. In an interview with cbs, he was asked how tmz got that video i he couldnt. We didnt get this right. Thats my responsibility, and im accountable for that. I will tell you that what we saw in the first videotape was troubling to us in and of itself. But what we saw yesterday was extremely clear, extremely graphic, and it was sickening. And thats why we took the action we took yesterday. Now, the nfl suspended ray rice indefinitely, but the new League Policy incdes a sixgame suspension for first offenders of domestic violence. That opens the door for rice to play for a difnte le in the as. Bud goodell says hed have to be confident, rice addressed his personal issues and pai price for s tis. Youll see new houses being built on the chancellorville battlefield. The new development is called the legions of chancellorville. Following a lengthy hearing, the county board of surr approved the construction of a new subdivision there accordg to the frlae ar irchts how police are being proactive to make sure neighbors know what to watch out for. Plus, the popular food that can keep your kids from catching a cold. And it will feel a little more like summer today as we take a live look outside. Meteorologist tom kierein will take us through the warmup hour by hour in your weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 6 11. Stay with us. In Fairfax County we had to cut a lot of waste. We consolidated offices. Started sharing printers. We can walk a few feet. Replaced computers, but kept the monitors. They still work fine. We even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three Million Dollars i approve this message because congress doesnt need another right winger. They need someone who can balance a budget. Oh, and we definitely didnt need so many government studies. Welcome back. In news for your health, a new Study Suggests longterm use of many commonly prescribed drugs may be linked to alzheimers. Researchers followed elderly adults taking xanax. Six years later those who took them were 50 more likely to develop alzheimers. Experts say these medications should only be used on a temporary basis. Heres something you can do to help your kids fight off cold and flu season. Its right around the corner. Give them yogurt that contain probiotics. European researchers found children who took a pill containing them were less likely to catch a cold. When they did fall ill, their symptoms were milder. Something to try out. Keep everything moving, keep you healthy. Yeah. Adults can do it, too. Absolutely. I wonder if it works for adults, the coldfighting part of it. Oh, okay. Lets take a live look outside. A little cloudy and a bit muggy. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here with the forecast. Your weather and traffic on the 1s. Yeah, and the dogs want to get moving, too. When youre walking the dog this morning, youll notice it, a little more humid. Youll be comfortable in short sleeves. By 7 00, upper 60s. A lot of clouds through 8 00. By then near 70. Then sun breaking out by 9 00. A little more humid into the low 70s. Hour by hour for the rest of the afternoon, well have morning clouds. A live view from our camera are breaking up. By noon time, partly cloudy. And more humid during the afternoon as we reach the low 80s. Right now Reagan National is at 71. Pretty good chance of severe storms tomorrow. Ill look at that next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 21. Now melissa, getting any more accidents . Already had several. Not right now. Fingers crossed. Its been kind of a nasty morning as far as crashes go. Ive had about a half dozen so far. Right now looking pretty good. 66 into town. Going about 45 miles per hour. No problem, Fairfax County, any of that area, youre just fine. Stafford county, as youre heading north on 95, no issues. Its much better than it was before. Beltway at landover road moving right along. Travel time outer loop from 95 to georgia, 13 minutes to 70 headed south looking fine as well. A bigger look at the beltway. Everything looking pretty good right now coming up when im back at 6 21. An accused thief caught napping on the loose. The Job Description he has on facebook that makes this pretty tough to believe. And a scary trend among our kids. A health issue teenagers are seeing that people typically dont worry about until their 50s and the driving force behind the problem. It is now 6 12. Karen hi, im karen. Joyce and im joyce. Karen and we are. Karen joyce the koch sisters. Karen were not biological sisters, but sisters in spir. Joyce and were not related to the koch brothers, those rightwing billionaires. Karen were just two average women whove raised families and worked hard all our lives. Joyce we dont have billions to spend on political campaigns. Karen but we do have our convictions, and our voices. We think thats important. Joyce if you agree, then join us. We can all be a nation of koch sisters welcome back. 6 15. This morning, nationals fans, you are one step closer to seeing your team in the playoffs. The team beat the braves last night, taking their magic number to ten. Aaron got to see that in person. 6 15, your time. And right now police in Prince Georges County putting neighbors on alert. Theyre trying to track down a suspect in a Sexual Assault on a popular trail. A woman was attacked in a wooded area monday evening. Detectives went back to the scene yesrd, ssg t flyers to warn neighbors and to ask for help. I dont want anything like that to happen to my girlfr. I dont ntnyinli tt to happen to my children. Both of my daughters come through here in the moin no one is back here, like, escorting them to school. Im very terrified now. Detectives are determined to find the suspect. They are offering a reward of up to 25,000 for information that leads to an arrest and charges. A Fairfax Countybased firm is losing a Major Contract with the government after it was targeted with a cyber attack. The office of Personnel Management says it will terminate its contract with usis at the end of the month. The company does the bulk of federal background checks. Last month its Computer Network was hacked, putting the personal files of thousands of government workers at risk. A father confessed to killing his five children. This is Timothy Jones jr. Being taken into custody in alabama. Police say he told them where he dumped the bodies, and they were found yesterday. Police say they stopped his suv over the weekend. It was soaked in blood. The children ranging in age from 1 to 8 years old were report missing fmocali week. 6 17 now. Encouraging, thats how doctors are describing the recovery of a third american infected with ebola. Rick sacra is being treated at a specialized medical facility in nebraska. His doctors say he is becoming more alert and interactive. He became infected while working in liberia. A fourth american with ebola arrived in the u. S. Yesterday. He is being treated in atlanta where two other americans were cured. Dr. Kent brantly is one of those cured americans, and he recently thanked the organization he was working for when he contracted the ebola virus. Brantly and his family had been serving in liberia with samaritans purse for about ten months when he fell ill. These are pictures during his address at the organizations headquarters in north carolina. Yesterday he thanked Staff Members in person for their prayers. Brantly said, quote, im going to keep telling my story so i can remember what god has done in my life. Tomorrow we will mark 13 years since the 9 11 attacks. This morning members of the house and senate will unveil three congressional medals honoring those who perished on september 11th, 2001. The medals are the highest civilian honor congress can bestow. Today two 9 11 widows will co to washington to push for stronger cockpit safety as orpne the steer1tri it is a record year for car recalls. Whats even more alarming is the number of cars on the road right now with open recalls. Consumer reporter Erica Gonzalez has that number and a possible way to reduce it. Were talking about people behind the wheel of vehicles with open recalls. That means they havent been fixed yet. And there are a whopping 37 million cars ku s currently on road with open recalls. Thats according to carfax. The company that provides vehicle history reports says it has a way to reduce the number of openrecall cars people are currently driving. Its a free app that allows consumers to keep up with recall alerts and even vehicle maintenance. We set out to learn how it works, and sure enough, we found cars with open recalls in this Northern Virginia parking lot. This one has a Passenger Air bag inflater thats been recalled. That means that the Passenger Air bag may not deploy in an accident. Tonight on news 4 at 5 00, we reveal more recall alerts that we found just by entering license plate numbers in the mobile app. And well show you how to use it. This video is just unbelievable. Take a close look at this here. The van you see in the water there, a person, both of them swallowed by rushing floodwaters. This is on a highway near vegas. A man appears near the van and moments later the person disappears as the surgerying water sweeps that man into the ravine there. This guy actually survived this whole thing. Flash flooding responsible for at least two deaths in arizona around the same time as well. You can see, looks like it goes right over the cliff. I wonder how deep that was. To walk away from that. Incredible. Our weather, we had some showers yesterday and a little bit of humidity this morning. Tom kierein, what do you say . Yeah, and it left the air quite humid overnight. A lot of cloudiness around. Shortrange model, the new one just came in showing a lot of cloudiness for the next few hours. But then cloud cover likely breaking up by midmorning. And the clouds we have with us now not producing any rain. Storm team 4 radar all clear all across west virginia, virginia, maryland, the eastern shore, dry pavement on this wednesday morning. And its rather mild with the increased humidity, upper 60s in prince georges. Much of fairfax, upper 60s as well. Near 70 the rest of Northern Virginia and the district and right near the bay waters. Theres capitol hill under this cloudy sky. A live view from the storm team 4 capitol cam. Later this afternoon, partly cloudy, reaching the low 80s. And youll notice itsing go to be getting more humid as we get into the afternoon. But then sweltering humidity. Tomorrow summer returns big time, up near 90 degrees tomorrow afternoon. And then a cool front sweeps through likely triggering storms by midafternoon into the early evening hours. Some of those storms during the day tomorrow as they do sweep on through with that cool front could be severe. Storm team 4 will be on it. Storm threat after 3 00 p. M. Mainly on thursday is the way it looks right now. Heavy rain and maybe some damaging winds from those strong thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and early evening. After that, less humid, Beautiful Day friday. Partly cloudy. Highs mid70s. Saturday might get some showers. Temperatures in the mid70s. Then as we get into sunday, sunshine back for the skins home opener and 70s and beautiful weather monday, tuesday, low humidity, highs near 80. Im back in ten minutes. Weather and traffic on the 1s at 6 31. A look at neighborhood highs today. Melissa has another new accident. Take a look at this right now. This is the inner loop at annapolis road. Right now chopper 4 just got over the scene. We wanted to show you this picture. Obviously going to see some delays building. I did have this map built for you. And were not seeing the delays yet. It looks like could be on the ramp. Going to get more information and pass it along after we talk with police. As youre starting out in Prince William couy, all my friends there heading out 66 into town. It is a fairly slow, getting very slow as you head into oakton. And then it opens back up as you approach the beltway. No major issues after the oakton area. Taking a look at 95, a little slow to quantico as youre coming out of Stafford County. And then slows down a bit again as youre heading into the woodbridge area. Prince georges county side of things looking good at this point. A wider look. You can see overall, we look pretty typical in the slowest part, top of the beltway near coastal road. Melissa, thank you. 6 23, your time now. Pizza night might be a quick and easy dinner choice, but its apparently harming your teens health. The centers for Disease Control says that teens are getting too much salt in their food. Onethird more than recommended. Too much salt puts children and teens at risk of high Blood Pressure and heart disease. Both conditions more associated with middle age. Researchers say pizza and bread are the biggest culprits. 13 of salt that kids eat comes from fast food and pizza restaurants. 6 23 now. The bets for the new royals pregnancy are starting to roll in, and they are getting creative, too. Earlier this week we told you the favorite names so far are elizabeth, victoria and james. All good classic names. Charles has a 121 odds. William hill has alice at 251 odds. And here are the long shots. 5001 odds the baby will be named macbeth. Slightly better stands for joffrey with 2501 odds. I know people will keep coming up with interesting names. I think theyll go classic. They went with george. A good, strong name. It is. Its royalty. Yeah. You cant go with something else. If you like living on the edge, wha t hseorou. Check it out. I dont get this. Whew you like it as long as youre not afraid of heights or the water. Take a look. Here it is. Theyre calling this the cliff house in australia. Fivestory home includes look at that. Spa area where you can hear the sound of the waves.