Is set to open. Its something youve been followed closely. Absolutely amazing. Absolutely set to open in just about an hour. A 340 million project will welcome commuters. The Transit Center has been delayed many times due to construction. Were going to follow this story for you as the morning goes on. Obviously, the weathers going to be an issue. We want to stek in with storm team 4s tom kierein. Hey, tom. Good morning. As you take a morning walk with your dog, taking a morning stroll, youll notice as the drier air has moved out. Humidity has moved. The tower camera looking off in the distance, you can see clouds forming in the area. Off to the east is the bright planet venus. I took this a couple of mornings and you can see it playing peekaboo with the clouds now. Storm team 4 radar, you might have a few scattered sprinkles. Closeup High Definition radar, High Resolution not showingny rain anywhere in the vicinity, this front pretty much coming through dry this morning, bringing in cooler weather. Right now in the low 60s in the panhandle of shenandoah valley. Look at oakland down to a chilly 46. And some of that cooler air is going to be moving in today. Metro area, right now were in the upper 60s. Right downtown near 70. Right around the upper 60s to right around 70 degrees. A look at how long this fresh change will last. Were going to say goodbye to summer in september. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Thanks so much, tom. In a few hours a million cubans are expecting to watch pope francis deliver mass in revolution square. Mass starts at 9 00 this morning. Then this afternoon pope francis will meet with cuban president raul castro and his brother fidel. He called on both countries to do more to normalize the tide. And we do want to remind you weve got you covered for three days, just three days. Were going to bring you breaking news alert apps when he gets here and all the traffic delays you may experience. There are going to be plenty of those. Here are four things to know to travel around town once the pope gets here. As angie mentioned, hell be here on tuesday. By far, the most disruptive day will be wednesday from a road and metro executive. The brookland station is going to be extremely busy and the red line will be particularly crowded. As the pope moves around town, there will be rolling road closures. We know some details about his movement but there are some things we just dont know. If you dont have a ticket to the canonization mass, your best chance to see the pope is o at his public parade. Busy, busy, busy. Mmhmm. Tragedy in prince georges county. They lost their home in a horrific fire. Two firefighters battling the blaze are also recovering this morning. News4s Darcy Spencer has more from the scene. Reporter these photo shoes the heavy fire and thick black ceremony that virtually destroyed this home on endicott place on n springdale. No one was hope. Thats because they were here at ebeneezer church. They were at a funeral of this man whose home burnt. At that time no one really knew. They quickly found out the worst. The fire was reported around 1 30 in the afternoon. Flames were shooting from the top floor and roof. His widow and other loved ones raced from the home. As the firefighters worked to get flames under control, they spent the afternoon comforting one another and receiving guests. This is very difficult on the day that you bury one of your relatives, you also learn that your home, which is probably the second most important thing is also gone. Two firefighters were taken to the hospital, one for electrical shock, one for minor burns. The heat from the fire was so intense that it melted the siding on both sides of the home. The other question is what next, you know. Things have aha t tendency of happening in threes. We hope thats not the case. Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the fire. But right now theres an estimate 2d 00,000 in damages. A funeral will be held this morning for a young girl who was killed by a drunk driver. 25yearold Samantha Sumters car. Witnesses say they were yelling out of the window hang beer. The funeral is this morning at 11 00. It took d. C. Police less than half an hour to find them. Police chased down a car and arrested steven pew and more rico knight. Both are facing firstdegree murder charges. Shortly after that arrest they found dean tray ee gram shot and killed. This is the same place a man was shot while sitting on a metrobus last month. So far no arrests in this case. Police are offering a 25,000 award for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of this homicide. Were get nug numbers showing the devastation caused by two wildfires in the northern part of the state. 1,000 homes have been destroyed so far. 6,400 others are in thefires path. Five people have died. Theyre still working to get these fires under control. Looking at the day ahead, the maryland didnt of ail aig culture will spray for mosquitos. Youre going to see mda trucks on three main roads. Therell be half a dozen areas to go to if youre worried about spraying. This will be the last mosquito spraying session for the year. Take two. Are you ready . Okay. The redskins. How about i take the story. Do it. The redskins are going to take on the rams at 1 00 p. M. They lost the first game this season and theyve only one seven games in the last two seasons. Good luck to them today. Yes. Now on to decision 2016. Sorry about that. Having some promty issues. All eyes on donald trumtp. Now, trump did not correct the supporter when he called president obama a muslim. He did address the way he responded on the issue via twitter at the appearance in iowa. They wanted me to speak up in favor of the president. Do you think hes going to speak up in favor of me . Why do i think hes not. Trump has surged ahead of his republican rivals and foes but some wonder if his bubble is going to burst soon. Ben carson and john kay success will be on meet the press this morning at 9 30. If youre heading to the race this morning, the closest stop to the station is the smithsonian station. Thats the closest one to the starting line. You can catch the blue, original, or silver lines to the stop. New video. This is a yacht on fire. A family is on board there. Why theyre thinking a Good Samaritan this morning. And a developing story out of indiana where two children were hit in a driveby shooting welcome back. Its 6 13. New this morning, two children shot after an apparent driveby shooting in indianapolis. One victim has died. They were 9 and 11. Two adults were shot also. They boenlt believe it was a random attack. Four people including a 6yearold boy were on this yacht when it went up in flames. A passerby called the coast guard. The boat burned for an hour but everybody was ab to get off just in time. The fire started in the engine. Thats some scary stuff. You dont want to see that. Well, were starting off our sunday. Yesterday was kind of hot. It was hot. It was summer in september. Bye, summer . Bye. Nice seeing you. Bring on the smores. A more autumnal feel. Starting this morning youll notice a breeze coming off from the west. Right now to the east, weve got a glow in the eastern sky, and the temperatures are comfortable now, although its a little humid. The humidity is beginning to move in as the winds pick up. Right now, washington, 70. Upper 60s, near 70 around the bay. Off to our west, were still in the 60s in most locations. Look at oakland now. A chilly 46 degrees. And theres the glow in the eastern sky this morning. You can barely make out mars. I thought i saw mars a few minutes ago. Maybe obscured by the cloud f clouds now. By 8 00, sun, upper 70s. Back down to the mid70s by 5 00 p. M. All across the region well be in the 70s. Just a gorgeous sunday. Enjoy the lower humidity moving in. Now, the winds may be a bit blustery for the fed axe game this afternoon. Kickoff is at 1 00. For tailgating, its going to be a bit blustery. It will be in the mid70s. Then by 2 00, just a few clouds, upper 70s. By the end of the game, it should be back down to the mid70s and lots of sunshine around. Then a cool start to the week. Right around 70 degrees heading a touf school and work monday morning. Starting tomorrow, a lot of clouds. Might have a passing shower. We could certainly use it. Theres a small passing of a sprinkle or shower. Small showers for the papal visit arriving on tuesday all the way through thursday. It looks beautiful. Night weekend to follow. Thank you, tom. Thank you, tom. We have reporters notebook coming up weechlt be back at 6 30. Good morning. Welcome to reporters notebook. Im pat lawson muse. As we roll out the red carpet, road closures and tight security will surely create gridlock in parts of the city. Ddot says expect long delays. Try to work from home. Take mass transit. Plan ahead. And give yourself plenty of extra time to get where you need to go. Joe madison s the city ready or will this visit bring the city to a standstill . I think this city will be ready for it more so than philadelphia. Im heading up to philadelphia to see the pope there, but im staying in d. C. Were used to the diplomats and president s on the move. I think what were doing here today is giving people plenty of time to adjust to what might, you know, be a lot of road closures. Well, its going to be messy, no matter what we say. Well be used to it but ddot is trying to use technology. Theyre saying, listen, we have these mappings, go online, take a look, these are the roads that will be closed. So much of the talk about the popes visit is about snarling traffic, stay home, not working. And there will be talk about how inspirational this visit may be, but it seems to be right now secondary to what is this going to do for your the life of those who live in the area and those coming into the area. I guess once he gets here, well Start Talking about what he has to say. And dave, mcconnell, throw in a concert on tuesday night and those nats games. Thats right. Theres a lot of competition. I dont want to go overboard on this, but kind of think like a snow day. Think of that. Were not quite there with the snow on the streets and slipperiness. This is not about snow. But the fact is when you close arteries, it causes traffic in other arteries. I think im going to stay home. I just wrote down, treat it like a snow day. Basically thats how we ought to treat it. Or inauguration date. Thats a little different because it happens every four years. Its a little more concentrated, isnt it . The head of opm says treat it like a snow day. Whether theyre catholic or not, so many are preesh ya tifb of the pope. Theres just this mood and they cant wait for him to show snup this is not only his first trip to washington but to the United States. The wizards heading to ward 8. Tea people are abuzz about it. The owner has unveiled plans for a 550 million plan. They expect it to bring jobs in. They hope it will bring hope to a community in desperate need of an economic shot in the arm. Dave, the mayor promised development east of the an cost ya river. Could this be a boon for ward 8 . Since theres been a concern in that area they really have missed out on the Economic Development of the rest of the city. This would be a great way to do it. If they build the arena, the allure of the wizards, look at all the people looking to go way down. You can imagine what this will do for the wizards. So it looks like a really good shot in the arm. Those numbers are starting to decrease a little bit for the football team. I think whats important here is mayor bowser is only following in the footsteps of mayor grey fowler and mayor gray theres an issue talking about crime. I think if you have redevelopment there and you build up the tax base, that sort os takes care of that issue. I this i whats important is the money thats going to spent here. 55 million. The city is going to kick in most of it. Leonys is going to put in 55 million. But still we havent to get the council to prove this. Were talking the major plan but she has to get support. Were moving now to another sports complex. I cant imagine anyone in that kouj would vote against it. This would be transformational. Lets go back. Remember what the Verizon Center did for chinatown. I mean weve been around long enough to know there was a time you didnt even go to chinatown. Stay out of china up to. Look at the restaurants. Look at the activity. The fact is its not going to be just a practice center, youre going have all kinds of restaurants and small businesses. The thing i do hope is that there will be Employment Opportunities to help build that for people in ward 8. And thats what i really hope will take place. I think thats where Eleanor Holmes norton will come into play. Very quickly naltds will tell you oftentimes building stadiums really dont mean that much of an economic boom for the communities. D. C. Is a little different. It has happened with nationals stadium and Verizon Center, but downdont see it out at the fedex field in landon. Look what thats done. D. C. Is a different outlier than most stadiums that go in the United States and sports i think we try to find someone avail snoobl the big issue with body cams converging with the deaths of black men and white policemen involved in a shooting of them, this whole series of things weve gone through over the last year is we need some way to see what really happened. Theres disparate accounts of it. Body cams seem to be thence. Now critics say theres a move to cut that uf. All right. Weve got to take a break. Well be right back. Stay with us. D. C. Will have to pay a former inmate. He wins a settlement. He pleaded guilty to simple assault charge stemming from domestic dispute. He was locked up. He had no way to council with anyone. A jury will decide how much he gets. Does it surprise you that even in the wake of this case t aclu is claiming inmates with disabilities are still being denied access and Inadequate Services at the city jail . It didnt surprise me what the judge ruled. He had a 46page report and was taking to task the way d. C. Was treating these inmates. Know its happening in arlington. Its also happening there. Obviously this is an issue. The aclu sees it as an issue. The thing is the judge says they knew he was there and knew what the rules were to follow and still did not do it. It seems to me its still a somewhat open and shut case. For this gentleman in arlington, this could become a bigger issue. I would add only one thing. I would hope they would incorporate in the settlement money for training so that this doesnt happen again. Johnnie cochran used to do that. He would have big rewards and the family would get x amounts. And then there would be money set aside for the Police Agency to have training, which would preeventual it from happening again. Thats what i would strongly recommend. This makes no sense whatsoever. You have to wonder if this isnt a time for the penal system. I mean ive read colby kings columns on this in the post and any number of investigations have been around about people just like this or improperly treated or some people have had medical conditions and theyve died. Really the critics say it just has to change. Alexandria bans flying the flag. The Confederate Flag will no longer fly twice a year on state property. Theyre hoping to pass the raising on confederate mourning day in may. Its currently at the intersection of washington street. What do you think of the idea . It gets us into the old discussion of the flag again, what it means, what it represents, how it hurts people. At the same time its a representation of a stand, a cause, if you will, an illfated cause certainly. But the people i talked to said its time the Confederate Flag should go in that area to a more proechlt place. A museum or private ceremony or Something Like that. Many people were surprised that the Confederate Flag still flies several times in alexandria. Everybody knows my position on this. Im like dave. I think it should be in a museum. This issue is not going to go away. Its been a long time coming. And i just think this is part of people saying, you know, lets just get rid of it. Were one country. Were not two countries. The civil war is over. Very monte, everybody does not feel that way. Do you think other jurisdictions will follow suit . I think what you see in South Carolina. Virginia, what you saw in richmond, there can be those who will show others to follow if South Carolina and virginia can do it. Were talking about the Confederate Flag. I will say i was surprised. I was surprised it was a unanimous vote. And theyre talking about possibility renaning streets and highways. There are 33 of those. Thats going to be dicey. The fact that it went through, i would say its progress, its not rewriting history. Its communities deciding what and who you want to honor as a nation and that will be a continued debate. Ill add one thing. If you rename the streets, you take away the reason why people get angry. Gore by dal said it one time. The Edward Pettus bridge which was a horrific demonstration where people were mauled by the police. People might forget why that bridge, what that name Edmund Pettus means. So some of these symbols might be a bad reason. I think thats so tied to a movement and a particular time, and i think thats a perfect example of the ed monday pettus brid bridge. I think thats a little different. Having crossed ed mumd pettus bridge, what i do here is theyre hoping hes rolling over in his grave. The other thing, too, keep in mind a lot of people dont know this. Did you know that robert e. Lee at his funeral did not want the Confederate Flag posted . His view was over, we won and even though he had a problem with africanamericans and his views are certainly not consistent with what we believe today, he was really unstru mental. They said, no, its over. Weve got to become United States citizens. Weve got to move on. Thank you. Thats reporters notebook. Im pat lawson muse. Stay with us now as news4 today continues. \ good morning. Im angie goff. Im adam tuss. Today is the day the new Transit Center finally opens to the public. It makes its debut in about 30 minutes. Well have a live report coming up later on news4 today to