Im eun yang. We want to check on the forecast. Nice for august. Chuck bell is in the weather center. We can keep it going a little longer. Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky. Thats unfortunately, the way it goes. Comfortable weather again. Yes indeed, heat and 450ud will make a comeback. Nothing to worry about, sunny and mild. The evening plans, nothing to worry about. Highs in the hometown, 82 ingate urs berg. 86 in frederick, maryland. 82 by the bay in edge water and annapolis. About 87 degrees here in washington. There will be rising levels of heat and humidity. Ill show you the forecast coming up in a few minutes. Lets go over to Melissa Mollet in first 4 traffic. Beltway at river road. Inner loop here. This is the best picture we have. Were sending a crew to show us better whats happening. This is a tractortil it back on its wheels. The right lane and the ramp from cabin john parkway blocked by the accident. Probably through the morning commute. 66 inbound, Fairfax County to the beltway. You can see your time. About 9 minutes to get to the beltway. You dont have to worry about that one too much this morning. Taking a look at 95, just a little slow heading into quantico in the southbound lanes. Guys . Following this breaking news also from the live desk. That is the earthquake in italy this morning. We have video we want you to see of a dramatic rescue happening. This is the central part of italy. You see a number of people there trying to get the people who are trapped in the rubble. This is a 6. 2 earthquake. Pretty powerful. You can see them passing along the person that they have just freed from underneath the rubble. The quake happened in the middle of the night. People sleeping in their beds when it struck. Right now the count is 13. But we do expect that to possibly rise. We have live pictures here we want to show you of other rescues that are happening. That looks like a piece of equipment there and people trying to free people who may be trapped. This is what it looks like on the ground there right now in italy. This was felt 100 miles away from the earthquake in rome even. Now were looking at aftershocks. Aaron, eun, back to you. Just coming out o of italy. A serious crash in d. C. That car flipped over on benning road northeast last night. We found out everyone involved should be okay. There were no fatalities here. They did shut down part of the road. Its open now. Its not clear what caused that crash. Pp main street in Ellicott City will reopen several weeks after flooding in the city killed two people and destroyed several businesses. Officials say crews have a lot of paving work do and hope to have part of the Downtown Parking lot back open by saturday. Prince georges countys board of education wants some of the members want new leaders. Want the leaders replaced. Five members are demanding the chair and vice chair step down after the investigation into the headstart program. The School System lost more than 6 million in federal funding after claims of student abuse. Those Board Members wrote a letter saying leaders did not keep them informed. County executive baker says hes happy with the job the leadership is doing. I have all the confidence in the world. Hes done a great job, dr. Maxwell, weve seen improvements in the schools, our graulgs rates are up. Weve seen improvements in the Early Childhood education. So were going to move forward. The School Board Chair eubanks said in a statement that he will dov continues. More than 900 students in that Program Start classes on monday. It is 5 05. A developing story out of north korea. South korea says the north launched a missile from a submarine and flew over 300 miles and landed in the east china sea. North korea launched a an American Military in the korean peninsula. The Justice Department is telling nbc news that a violent knife attack in roanoke, virginia, has no link to isis. Thats what the Justice Department on saturday witnesses say that the man who has been identified yelled in arabic as he allegedly stabbed two people. Both were seriously hurt. He was hearing voices at the time of the attack. Hes being held in jail on bond. Were hearing from the man who rose through the ranks of the d. C. Police department and will soon soon become chief. He will take over for cathy lanier retiring in november. He became assistant chief in 2002. Owe knows the community and the police force and his priority will be to maintain a Good Relationship between the two. I think our number one priority as an organization is public safety. You go out to community meetings. Most of the folks in those meetings are saying positive things about the metropolitan police department. Lanier will become Senior Vice President of security for the nfl. A nationwide search for her official replacement is already under way. Getting another account of that incident during the rio olympics involving four u. S. Swimmers who claimed to be robbed. Jimmy feigen is one of the swimmers accused of vandalizing a gas station. In a new statement he said he was terrified when a Security Officer pulled a gun on him. It happened at the gas station after the alleged vandalism. He also left several facts out of told it. Specifically that the teammate urinated on the side of the gas station and ryan lochte pulled a i was trying to protect my teammates. For this i apologize. As for the payment he had to make when he left brazil, feigen said he had two options, stay in rio while police investigated the alleged crime or do Community Service and pay more than 30,000. Feigen said, quote, we decided the amount was unreasonable and due to safety concerns this offer was rejected. The prosecutors response was to increase the fine to more than 46,000. He eventually paid about 10,000. It is that time of year. News 4 wants to make sure everyone has what they need to kick off the school year. Weve been collecting School Supplies. Giving away the backpacks to kids who otherwise. Its not too late to help us out. Amelia draper and Erika Gonzalez will be at the Apple Federal Credit Union starting at 6 00 this morning. Stop by to bring supplies or any donation to could help us. More information on the website and the nbc washington app. Well check in with amelia and erika later this morning. Weve been enjoying the sun and comfortable weather. How long will the dry stretch last . Chuck is tracking your forecast. The fight against isis on the ground. Troops closing in. The latest on the situation at the Syrian Border from the live desk, next. Katie ledeckys next adventure. I sit down with her and she reflects on winning gold and returning home. We love to see your first day of school photos. Yard ner here, all smiles. Shes heading off to school. Now its your turn. Use the first day face. Welcome back. Traffic and weather on the 1s. It would be nice if we could keep it like this for the remainder of august. Well probably have to wait until september to get this great weather back in. Bus stop weather this morning to an early school day. 65 at into the low and mid80s for afternoon highs today. Back to shorts, tshirts and sunglasses. No need for the rain gear today. The morning run, another nice day to add a mile or two. Another Perfect School day if you have the day off. After School Activities filled with sunshine and you can get the car washed. A good night for the nationals to play baseball at home. Ill show you the baseball forecast and the fiveday outlook in ten minutes. Lets go to melissa where the trouble continues on the capitol beltway. Inner loop at river road is where the camera is. Thats where youll find this problem. Overturned tractortrailer. Quite a large response there. Not affecting anything right now as we approach the 8 00 hour if this is hanging around, could pose a problem. Inner loop as youre approaching that area, blocked by the crash this morning. 95 looking good northbound and southbound. Had an earlier slowdown approaching quantico and rock creek parkway. Kristin . Thanks, melissa. Turkey may be closing in on isis at the Syrian Border with help from the u. S. A Turkish Special forces backed by u. S. Fighter jets launched this operation just before dawn trying to clear the borders down from isis militants. Reports are that a small member of Turkish Forces have crossed into syria on the ground as part of this operation. All of this coming hours before Vice President joe biden goes to turkey today. Eun . Thank you, kristin. Its 5 13. Were staying on top of new information about the biggest fire burning in california. The chimney fire started over the weekend. Its extremely dangerous conditions. Thats according to firefighters. Its burned a lot of homes and other so bad they cant count how many. Some people just wont leave their homes. Its important to me to stay here. This is our home. Its where we live. I wanted to track our place. Right now, the fire is nearly 30 miles its about 35 contained. The new lawsuit could put plans for one of d. C. s new homeless shelters on hold. People who live near the proposed shelter in upper northwest are demanding their chance to weigh in. 50bed shelter is being built in the parking lot of a Police Station near Cathedral Heights and gardens. It will be on City Property but the suit claims its illegal to build there because the Advisory Neighborhood Commission never had a say. What were going to court with is not to ask the court to change, to substitute its judgment for that of the council in choosing this site. But to go back to the drawing board and give the and concerns. Mary cha says the committee will get a say once a zoning change application has been submitted. The plan for this shelter and others like it is to provide homeless facilities in each of the citys wards. In decision 2016, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation are under new scrutiny due to a report by the Associated Press. Their review of state department calendars shows more than half the people outside of the government who met or called clinton while she was secretary of state gave money to the foundations. The Clinton Foundation replied saying it relies on utterly flawed data. Donald trump blasted clinton last time in texas. It is now abundantly clear that the clintons set up a business to profit from public office. They sold access and specific coming up in the broadcast a little later, nbcs tracie potts could mean for Hillary Clinton going forward. That bigg epipen price increase is not the only thing theyll be talking about. Its gone up about 400 . Now we know executive salaries at the company that makes epipens have increased 600 in that same time. For example. The mylan ceo was making 2. 5 million in 2007. Now that position earns nearly 19 million a year. Epipens are crucial for people with severe allergies and can save their lives in an emergency. Members of congress are calling for a hearing and an investigation. This next story is inspirational. Zion harvey. Hes 9 years old. Hes learning how to use his new hands after he received a double hand transplant in philadelphia last year. The hands and feet were amputated at age 2 when he came down with an infection. Harvey has one rest mom. Convince mom to let me play football. I knew that was coming. How are you not in love with this child . Are you the cutest thing ever . Its going to be hard to say no. Doctors are excited about zions progress. He recently got to throw out the first pitch at a Baltimore Orioles game. There is a renewed effort to transition our war heroes from the battlefield to the farm. The department of agriculture and the u. S. Chamber of commerce announced a new hiring system for agriculture jobs on tuesday. The agencies say the web portal will make it easier for veterans to pursue farming careers after being in the service. They live in rural areas, a certain percentage. Agriculture is a great way to serve the community and also a form of therapy. If you have what we call a moment of weakness, at leas you can learn to, you have special coping mechanisms when everybody is not watching. No date has been set for the launch of this portal. Theyve provided millions of dollars in farm loans to help vets purchase farmland or buy equipment since 2009. We love her drive and humility and that contagious smile, Katie Ledecky is back home and has plans. Shes throwing out the first pitch of the nats game tonight. After that, off to stanford to swim with the school team. I had a chance to spend oneonone time with her at her alma mater in bethesda. We talked about what makes her go. Its a great feeling when you achieve your goals. Its a great feeling to achieve your goals in something you love. I really love swimming. Its something i enjoy doing every day. I love going to practice and you have the opportunity to do something great and what you love. She says she jumps out of bed for practice even at 4 00 a. M. Can you imagine us jumping out of bed at 2 00 in the morning. We do. Its something you like to do, right. Ledecky i took home five medals. Her dominant performance was when she broke her old record in the 800meter freestyle. Remember, it looked like she was alone in the pool. Where are the other ones . Well see what ledecky had to say about that race and you can see more highlights from our interview tonight on news 4 at 6 00. You know, all those medals you saw around her neck. Theyre worth something. U. S. Olympians are taxed on the hardware they bring home. Some members of Congress Want to change that. They want to exempt socalled victory tax. The house will consider legislation about it next month. Olympic medalists are taxed on both the money they receive from the Olympic Committee and the value of their medals. A u. S. Athlete, if you win a gold medal in the olympics, thats 25,000 plus the value of the medal and its taxed. Every medal, every win is taxed. Cant do math that fast. Four golds and a silver. 115,000. Lot of money. Yeah. I wouldnt be carrying them around. What do you mean . Id never take them off. How much is this hamburger. How about if i have a gold medal around my neck . Good way to get free stuff. Seems crazy to pay a tax on winning a gold medal. The tax would be getting up at 2 00 a. M. And swimming laps all day. Anyway, i digress. Outside, we have nothing to worry about in t hence the reason i wasted half my time talking about medals other people have won. Temperatures outside in the 50s and 60s. Visibility, no troubles along i95 or i66. But there could be foggy spots through the southern and central parts of the Shenandoah Valley. Be on the lookout for cloud. 62 now in potomac maryland. 65 in college park and 66 in newington, virginia. Forecasting sunshine today. A great day to be outside. 80 degrees by lunch. You can have dinner outside as well. The evening temperatures will be pleasant. The orioles got us again last night in baltimore. Tonight, were bringing the next two nights, baseball back to nats ballpark against the orioles. Game time temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. Only a little warmer on the way to the ballpark. Great night for baseball. Future weather, no chance for rain into the area for today. Small chance of a passing shower or two. Probably a little better chance up into parts of the Shenandoah Valley and northern maryland. Not much, if anything in the way of a rain threat around town. 87 today. 90 tomorrow. Friday looks hot and humid again. Temperatures in the mid90s. Both days over the weekend for the most part sunny and dry. But certainly on the warm side with temperatures this weekend generally speaking into the 90s. Be back in a few more minutes. Well have more things to know about the forecast. Well be talking about the tropics. There could be a gaston and ir mine to be talking about. Heres a check on the roads with melissa. Still keeping an eye on river road, the incompetener loop as approach there. Have a crew on the way going to get a better picture once were on the scene there. Right lane blocked by the crash of an overturned ac as far as the rest of the beltway, looking quite good. The beltway no problems. As you widen out, you can see the major routes rolling along fine. Live look at 270 coming up. Thanks, melissa. Its an easy way for toddlers to Learn Technology and new skills. It can also cause problems. What resrchers areea its 5 26. A lot of people are addicted to these little screens. We mentioned before all the screen time could be harming your childrens eyes. Some say thats not the only damage youre doing. It could cause delays in language to shortening Attention Spans and interrupting social interaction. But if you need to occupy them with screens, make sure you know what theyre seeing. Doctors recommend no screen time for children under the age of 2. Once theyre older, no more than two hours per day. Educational programs are best, especially if you talk to them after. Reinforce what they learn on the screen. Its been nice and comfortable here lately. The high heat and humidity are returning. Chuck bell has more about the forecast. New concerns about a deadly shooting in North Carolina. What investigators are revealing about a deaf man stopped for speeding. If you can call an ambulance, you expect help to be there fast. What were finding out about the private ambulances hired by to reduce Resp