60s. Near 80 at lunch time. Low to mid 80s, plenty of sunshine. Just a delightful friday evening coming our way as well. Overnight tonight, back down into the mid 60ss for most. Then your saturday looks great too. Turning warmer and a bit more humid. Well talk more about that in ten minutes. For now, a check on the roads with melissa. Good morning. Right now, still have this one crash here, this is coffer wood roads. It involves a county vehicle. May take longer to get things investigated and out of the way. Inner and outer loop, no problems here. It sounds like 66 no problem. 95 no problem. Maryland 95 here at powder mill road, we look. The gw parkway, its now shut down until saturday. Condolences continue to pour in for a reporter and photographer killed in an onair ambush. Virginias attorney general says the entire state is thinking about the staff at wdbj in roanoke. Mark herring attended a candlelight vigil last night. Hundreds of other people also attended that vigil in honor of Alison Parker and adam ward. Meanwhile, were learning more about the shooting itself. Vicki gardners husband says the suspect, vester flanagan, was standing over his wife prepared to shoot when his gun jammed. Flanagan left and gardner managed to get up and managed to walk to the ambulance. Next week a Memorial Service will be held for adam ward. This morning we get a look inside the shooting suspects apartment. Vester flanagans apartment is less than a mile away from wdbj. And nbc news obtained this video of the inside of that one bedroom unit. Investigators say there wasnt a lot of furniture inside. Flanagan had a computer without a hard drive. His refrigerator was covered with pictures of himself. Alison parkers father says colleagues warned her not to rent in that community because its where flanagan lived. Right now, the search is on for a convicted sex offender in our area. James norris, jr. , walked off during a home visit yesterday at the State Hospital where he lives near landover hills. Youre looking at his picture here. He was last seen wearing a black track jacket with white stripes down the sleeve, jeans and new balance sneakers. If you see him, call 911. This morning, three men are recovering from shootings minutes apart from each other. This map shows how close the scenes are. D. C. Officers say someone shot two men on alabama avenue near suitland parkway. Police were close by on third street with another man also the victim of a shooting. Officers are not saying anything about the suspect at this time. Today, officers in d. C. s seventh ward will take direct steps to try to stop shootings like those that happened last night. Molette green joins us live from Police Headquarters with more on what you will see this weekend. It is all hands on deck. It kicks off this afternoon at 3 00 and runs all the way through the weekend until sunday at 6 00 p. M. You should see a much more visible Police Presence throughout officers actually out on foot. The whole idea is to engage on oneonone interaction with residents and police this has made a substantial impact in the past, particularly in ward 7. There is some concern among some residents, we heard protesters interrupt the mayor this week when she laid out her anticrime plan. They say they want more jobs, not jails. And an increase in Recreation Center staff. Basically, giving young people in the city more options. Then the mayor also tried to make clear that officers will not just randomly enter homes to search for guns as they try to address this uptick in crime in the city. That is the latest live from headquarters. Im molette green. Back to you. Thank you. Five minutes after 5 00 today. We expect an alexandria judge to sentence a teenager for helping another one join isis. 17yearold Ali Shukri Amin faces up to 15 years in prison. Hes from manassas. He pleaded guilty in june to conspiring to provide support to terrorists and he also was helping another teen to travel to syria. Developing story this morning as Tropical Storm erika takes aim at puerto rico and moves closer to the u. S. Main land. Floridas Emergency Operations center is on high alert today as they keep a close eye on the storm. A large supply of water has been sent to west palm beach. The Salvation Army is part of the effort as well. The Relief Agency says clean water will be in high demand. Right now the storm is projected to make it to florida on monday. Erika knocked out power and killed four people in the Eastern Caribbean island of dominica. The storm passed through the area yesterday causing severe flooding and mudslides. The storm also knocked out power and dropped 15 inches of rain there. 20 people are still missing. And are Tropical Storm erika, the new forecast from the hurricane center, is a little bit more ominous for the Sunshine State of florida. With time, as we get towards this is monday morning, predawn hours of monday morning, likely to be a Tropical Storm somewhere over south florida. Thereafter, it gets more uncertain. But nonetheless, the new forecast track carries the storm farther to the west which means a lot larger impact on the state of florida as we get into sunday night, monday and tuesday of next week. So if you have plans to travel from the outer banks down into florida, stay very apprised of what erika is going to do. Back to you. Chuck, thank you. It has been ten years now since Hurricane Katrina ravaged new orleans and other parts of the gulf coast. Today, former president george w. Bush will visit that city that became one of the most divisive parts of his presidency. The former president and wife will visit a Charter School that was funded by the laura bush foundation. Coming up, Nbcs Jay Gray will have a live report from new orleans on how that city continues to recover a decade later. We should learn the results today of a mental evaluation for a man police say murdered an American University student on a metro train earlier in summer. Police say jasper spires stabbed Kevin Sutherland to death at the Noma Gallaudet metro station on july 4th. Spires attacked a man during a robbery in northwest. Spires should be in the courtroom this morning. Just in to the live desk, violence erupts overnight in india. The mass shooting that killed at least three people and wounded several others. Looking live outside this morning, not too bad right now, but your weekend a developing story now. Tensions have heightened even more between pakistan and india. Pakistani troops fired their weapons in kazmir in an area claimed by both countries. Three civilians were killed and eight people were hurt. That looks like one of them there. India and pakistan have fought wars over this territory and clarks break out all the time. People are scrambling to get out of this area and taking shelter if they can. Back to you. Thank you, kristin. Right now, hawaiis kilauea volcano is active again. Look at this chopper video. You can see the hot lava, this started tuesday night. So far its moved more than one half mile and threatening a subdivision of homes. So far, there are no reports of injury or accidents from the lava. 5 12 is our time right now. We want to get you ready for the weekend. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is telling us whether or not this nice weather is going to last. Chuck, good morning. Good morning. Everybodys eyes are on the weekend forecast and the weather could not be any more cooperative for your outdoor plans this weekend if you go out camping in the Shenandoah Valley. Generally low to mid 60s along and east of the riff of the roadway, rather. Oxon hill, maryland, 65 at 7 00 a. M. 81 degrees at 1 00 this afternoon and 79 for this evening. Mother nature is turning up the heat a bit. Mid 80s today. Near 90 tomorrow. Mid 90s with humidity coming back on your sunday. Seven day forecast coming up in ten minutes. Metro delays right now. Two different problems here. So blue line right now, singletracking between foggy bottom and dArlington Cemetery. And on the roads, beltway looking quite good. Inner and outer loop no issues. Top of the beltway, again, no problems there. B. W. Parkway, 95, 29, rolling along very nine. 95 at mime road looking good. It was the epicenter of the baltimore protests and in less than two hours it will be no more. Whats expected to happen to this cvs. We are standing by for the new details on the surviving panda cub at the national zoo. You can see mei xiang there up early. What were about to learn later this morning. This morning. Your time righ this morning. Your time righ we snap it. We stack it. We smoosh it. We love it. Hersheys makes it a smore. You make it special. Hersheys is mine, yours, our chocolate. Youre watching news4 today. A lot of faith in our neighbors and a lot of trust in them. And this is a block that really building pretty quickly right now and, you know, we want to be always we always want to keep open lines of communication with the businesses around here. Neighbors in petworth may not be aware of the crack down on Stores Selling synthetic drugs, but the message is clear. They want the stores shut down. One will shut do later this year. The attorneys general is shutting down the store thats notorious for selling synthetic drugs. Police found more than 500 packets last october. The Property Owners of the store on upshur street have worked to evict the tenant. They have until mid november to get out. You can learn more about how Loudoun County plans to fight the rise of heroin use. County officials will hold a Public Meeting to discuss the problem and they want to hear your thoughts. The county announced back in may it will form a regional heroin operations team. Theres a hotline so people can get help. That meeting takes place at 6 30 tonight at the Loudoun CountySheriffs Office in leesburg. Henry kay says hes leaving to pursue a private sector job. Kay says hes stayed with the maryland transit admistration to make sure there was a smooth transition after governor larry hogans election. Today is his last day and kay has been an integral part of planning that 16mile east to west purple line project. The future line would link prince georges and montgomery. We told you earlier this week that hess construction is having a hard time getting the permits it needs to allow administrators to move into the new building. The free lancestar reports it was supposed to get a temporary occupancy permit by the end of the day yesterday. But did not. So School Officials may push the first day of school from september 8th to 14th. Theyre waiting to see whether or not thischool opens on time. If you havent, parents, it is time to make sure your children have their immunizations. You have to provide documentation of iunization if your child goes to school in the Fairfax County system. Starting today, clinics in annandale, mt. Vernon and springfield are offering extended hours to make it easier for you. Theyre open from 7 30 until 3 30 this afternoon. All right. Were taking a live look outside right now. 66 degrees. Pretty mild start to your friday. We can hang on to this nice weather at least for another couple of days. Chuck bell is in the storm team 4 weather center. Thats right. All the money youre saving on the air conditioning, you can send that directly to me. Outside a clear sky over washington. We are going to be enjoying dry weather here for today. Tomorrow and on into sunday. Next week looks mostly dry as well, but it does depend next weeks forecast does, a lot more on what erika decides to do. Tropical storm erika is still a Tropical Storm and the new forecast keeps it over land, and as a result, the new forecast does not have erika reaching hurricane strength. Thats the good news. Also the good news for south florida thats been in a terrible drought, this forecast will bring a tremendous amount of rain into south florida. The rest of florida though is not in a drought and they dont need the rain. So this is problematic for tampa bay, up into parts of north florida. But the new forecast track is farther to the west and brings the center of the storm much more over the land mass area of florida by tuesday of next week. There is still a great deal of uncertainty over where the moisture will go. It looks like the high ridge of moisture may steer most of the moisture with erika away from our area. 59 now, rockville. 57, gaithersburg. 59 in springfield and newington, virginia. Runners forecast, cool mornings coming to an end. Get the miles in this morning. Temperatures 60s and 50s and into the 70s by 9 00. Area wide highs today in the low to mid 80s. A mix of clouds and sunshine. What to wear today, dont forget your sunblock and sunglasses and dress. Ladies only, please. Outdoor pool and beach weather. Friday night, 82. And 78 by the end of your friday night plans. So seven day forecast then, its a warming one. Mid 80s today. Near 90 tomorrow. Low 90s on sunday with a lot more humidity. Little chance for rain there on your monday. Next week looks hot and humid, but we have to wait and see what erika does. Over to melissa for a check on the roads. 95 southbound there at route 1, if you look on the left side of the screen, we can have this blocked off at this point this morning and right now, just have the left lanes here getting by. So youre seeing a lot of volume headed southbound there at route 1. Also metro delays. Blue lines singletracking between foggy bottom and cemetery. Overall, no problems in prince georges county. Looking quite good. 270 northbound and southbound is rolling along nicely as well. Going to keep an eye on the new crash on 95 again. Southbound there at route 1 in virginia. Get a live picture in a couple of minutes. Melissa, thank you. 5 22 right now and today, well find out if the surviving panda cub at the national zoo is a boy or a girl. News4s Megan Mcgrath at the zoo this morning. What are we going to learn . Reporter well, thats right, later on this morning a press conference scheduled for 9 00 a. M. Well learn the gender of the panda cub. Were also going to learn who the father is. Now, lets take a live look at the panda cam here. Mei xiang, the mom was up and moving around 40 minutes or so ago. It appears she has gone back to sleep. And this is a live look inside her pen there, inside the zoo. So shes apparently sleeping again. Now, the press conference, 9 00 this morning. We are expecting to get a lot of new information. Including an update on the panda cubs health. Thats particularly important considering that the pandas twin, the smaller twin, died earlier this week. Zoo officials saying that all appearances are good that the panda cub is vocal, its active, moving around. Now, mei xiang was artificially inseminated. Her mate, tian tian is one of the candidates. Were learning information about the panda cub that died, a necropsy was done. Were expecting to learn some more information about what went wrong with the smaller twin cub. All of this scheduled for 9 00 this morning. Well let you know as soon as we know. Back to you all. Megan mcgrath live for us at the national zoo. Thanks. Well, it was looted, torch and now a baltimore store will be demolished. Demolition will start on the cvs at the corner of pennsylvania and north avenues today. That store was set on fire during the riots that followed the death of freddie gray. The store will be completely rebuilt by the end of the year. A jury is deciding the fate of a 19yearold prep School Graduate charged with rape. Owen labrie is accused of raping a freshman at the st. Pauls prep school in connecticut. He said they never had sex. In closing arguments yesterday, the defense said the accuser lied about the events that night and other things as well. He wants you to believe Nothing Happened in the mechanical room. Yet he deleted 119 messages from his facebook account after he spoke with police. Labrie said he deleted Facebook Messages including i pulled every trick in the book to have sex with her. New developments right now. The body count is rising in a gruesome discovery in vienna. A refrigeration truck was found abandoned on a highway. It was filled with the bodies of mig migrants. Its more like 71 bodies, including four children. Three people have been arrested. Autopsies are being done to see what happened to these migrants. Aaron . Kristin, thank you. New evidence this morning the former face of subway raised flags way before his recent arrest. A former franchisee said she alerted an executive in charge of the countys advertising in 2008. Her lawyer said jared fogle made comments about paying for sex with minors. Fogle pleaded guilty to sex with a minor and child pornography charges earlier this week. He could serve up to 12 years behind bars. Right now, asian stocks are up this morning, giving u. S. Investors hope that wall street will end this week on a high note. Yesterday, the dow climbed nearly 370 points. Well find out what we can expect today in a live report coming up in next half hour. Money could be getting in the way of another city up a plying to host the 2024 applying to host the 2024 olympic games. L. A. Says Construction Costs were significantly underestimated. A preliminary report said it would cost over 1 billion. Boston dropped out over money concerns. Ten years after catastrophic katrina, is new orleans any better . Were live there as the Crescent City marks a milestone. Youve made it, the end of a first week of school. We hope its a good one. But the right now at 5 30, were live from new orleans as the city prepares to mark ten years since Hurricane Katrina. As well as the humanitarian efforts that followed the storm. Class should have started this week fo