70s. Mid and upper 80s later on this afternoon. A chance of a shower or two. Dont leave home without that umbrella and dont leave home without checking out the traffic with melissa mollet. Thats right. A big back to School Morning for a lot of folks. One issue, red line delays to glenmont. Not going to affect too many school kids but thats happening right now. 66 east at nutley street, a little slow in that area because of the earlier crash. Again its off to the right side of the roadway. 95 northbound through dale city, a tad slow as well. Thats normal volume here this morning. B. W. Parkway, 95 and 29, everything looking quite good. So is 270 northbound and southbound. Dont have any major problems there this morning. Inner and outer loop, everything is rolling along nicely. Again, inbound 66 is a tad slower than normal here this morning. Back in ten minutes with travel times. Thanks, melissa. A lot of your kids are going to start waking up soon. Many for the first day back to school. Summer vacation is over. In Montgomery County, however, students have a few extra minutes to sleep in this year. News4s Kristin Wright is live outside of Walt Whitman High School with more on this Upcoming School year. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning. You know, a Record Number of students here in Montgomery County this year with more than 156,000 students starting the new school year this year. As you mentioned one of the big changes this year is the school start times. Theyll be later. It was a big debate for some time. The idea being that High School Students in particular get a little bit more sleep and so high school this year will start about 20 minutes later at 7 45. Middle School Students in Montgomery County are going to start also about 20 minutes later. Most of them starting about 8 15. Elementary School Students will shift by about ten minutes with their day starting at 9 00 or 9 25. 800 new educators is kind of a big deal. Some of them replacing educators who have left. Others of the 800 will just be adding to the growth in the county. The School District lost about 350 positions this school year. Now, the other big thing a lot of families are talking about in Montgomery County this year is the search for a new superintendent. That started in february, that search is going to relaunch this fall with the hope being that a new superintendent is in place by july. So lots of changes, lots of interesting things to talk about this year. Really the big one being the new start times for students this year. Back to you. All right, kristin, thank you. Also in maryland, Charles County students are back to school today. They built more snow days into the calendar by shortening spring break. Charles county will have free breakfast for all students next week to celebrate the growth of the Free Breakfast Program over the last five years. Its also back to school today for more than 75,000 students in Loudoun County. Heres a change some High Schoolers may like. They wont have to take midterm or final exams this year. Snow days from backtoback years cancelled the tests in the last two years. And storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is at riverside. Hell join us live in 15 minutes. Prince william schools are starting today too. Well be live at a brandnew school there at 6 30. For all of you with students in school right now, wed love for you to show us your scholars. Take a photo of your child getting ready for class or standing out at the bus stop. A surprise for them at the breakfast table perhaps. Putting that out there. If youre into that. Pancakes are good. Im a fan. Show us your photos, share them with us on social media. We pay put a few on air. In a few hours a trial gets under way for the accused bank robber who sparked a massive man hunt. Wossens is a say is accused of robbing several banks. He pled guilty to charges connected to the man hunt and hell face the robbery charges in alexandria. Today the county medical examiner is looking into a murder. A man was attacked in wheaton. He had an argument last night. He died at the hospital. Police say the victim may have also been shot or stabbed. The medical examiners report will determine the cause of death. In just a matter of hours we expect to find out if d. C. Police officers have no confidence in police chief cathy lanier. The police union held a vote this weekend. It comes amid a huge spike in crime and the highest homicide rate in years. The Police Union Says it doesnt agree with the chiefs decision to end plainclothes vice units. She thinks the past weekend all hands on deck initiative bothered officers who were originally scheduled off of work. She said quote, when we have Violent Crime we have to make the sacrifices that we all swore we would make when we took this job. Now, d. C. Police just put out some new numbers as well from the all hands on deck weekend. They say they seized 21 illegal guns across the city since friday night. They arrested 16 people for possession of those guns. Earlier this month, chief lanier blamed illegal guns in part for the spike in crimes. Evidence markers lining the block where d. C. Police say someone shot two people. One of them a little girl. Officers talked with neighbors at third street southwest around 7 00 last night. They say both the girl and the man who were shot should recover. Its 6 07 now. Former Maryland GovernorMarvin Mandel has passed away at the age of 95. Larry hogan released a statement saying that maryland lost a great leader and friend. The General Assembly appointed him governor in 1969 after spiro agnew was elected nixons vice president. He was elected to two full terms but his career ended in 1977 when he was convicted on political corruption charges. Mandel passed away at home surrounded by family. New year, a new school. Youre looking at Riverside High School where the first students will be welcomed. The changes your child will see in the coming school year. And 270 at rockville, heavy volume and delays on metro. But first a developing story of whats left of Tropical Storm erika as it pushes north. The impact it could have on your plans today as repair work begins in areas hit hard by that storm. Police in Newark International airport ordering a psychiatric evaluation for plan who breached security there. Take a look, you can see the incident caused big delays at the airport but theyre pretty much gone at this point. Police say the man entered an exit door yesterday and then ran from tsa agents. According to police he was upset when officers arrested him. They also say that he didnt know why he was being detained. We are following a developing story this morning, whats left of former Tropical Storm erika is dumping rain on the carolinas. Well see some of that rain in our area today, but it wont be severe. Meanwhile, hard hit dominica is beginning to clean up, at least 50 people are missing and 20 are dead. The Prime Minister says hundreds of homes, bridges and roads are destroyed. Just a change when you go a little farther into the caribbean. How much the damage is caused by erika. So we know some of that weather is working to us. Lots of clouds this morning. Pretty warm too already. Lets check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell to find out what day well. Have good morning. Good morning. Yeah, the summer muggies are back for most of the coming week and rain chances are back too. About a 40 chance of rain today, another chance of an afternoon shower wednesday. Best chances for rain are on friday. Rain in st. Marys county, a couple of sprinkles out in culpepper and fredericksburg. These are coming northbound. Rain chances will creep up as we go through the morning. Temperatures are in the mild 70s already. As you plan out your day today, have your umbrella ready to go. But plan on it being plenty warm and humid. 89 your high today. Trouble in Montgomery County. New problem in Montgomery County. Eastwest highway between connecticut highway and wisconsin, the police have a report of a crash there. Possibly a pedestrian hit. Were trying to get that information for you in a minute. Normal service back on the red lines. Top of the beltway and 270 southbound dont have any problems there at this point this morning. 66 inbound, just fine. 95 northbound, quantico to the beltway, nice and light. Remember to listen to our friends from wtop 103. 5 f. M. When you hop in your car. As you head into the workweek, you probably dont have to look at that hard to spot bad driver, but it appears our driver has more than most. Who is getting the lowest marks . We are digging through new poll results as voters weigh in on key issues. Among them, paying for college. What people like you are saying about it summer is over and students are going back to school in Montgomery County. And we are going to look at some schools in our area that are getting ready for this brandnew school year with a lot of excitement. Well talk to news4s derrick ward about a new program focused on science and technology. More than 70,000 students go back to school in Loudoun County today. Some of them at this brandnew school. Riverside high school. We received a little tour of the building earlier in summer. Its in the lansdowne area of leesburg. Very nice. Well, you may soon see tom kierein. Right there on your screen out in Loudoun County for us this morning. Hey, tom. Hey, yes, im at Riverside High School. A brandnew high school. There are 88 schools in Loudoun County. 44 of them, half of them have been built in the last 15 years. Thats how rapidly Loudoun County is growing. This is the newest one, Riverside High School, just completed. Took 22 months. And i have parents here of twins who are going to be attending this brandnew high school. Elmer and melissa ramirez. Elmer, you have been inside. What do you think . Its fantastic. A lot to be said about the new school, ill tell you. What do you think, melissa . Its big. But im excited for the kids. They have a lot of great resources for them to start their high school career. And youre involved in the marching band, is that right . We are. Go rams well, great. Just exciting. And are your twins, are they freshmen or just starting . Theyre freshmen in the marching band. Roman and alexa. Well, congratulations. Brandnew school here in Loudoun County. Aaron . Thank you. Exciting time out in Loudoun County for sure. Well, you may see extra police in leesburg as students go back to school in Loudoun County. The town says the Police Officers and Virginia State police will be out in force to keep your kids safe on the roads. Theyre targeting aggressive drivers and aggressive pedestrians all week as well. Theyre going to be out all year long. Your child needs to have his immunizations before entering kindergarten or sixth grade. Or transferring into the Fairfax County school system. There are extended hours at five clinics that you can get this done as early as 8 00 this morning. School starts next week. Theres still time for the back to school hair cuts too. But the cuts may not be free. Stylists at alexandre de paris gave hair cuts to 98 kids at no charge. The cuts were part of a benefit for the american cancer society. New poll numbers just in on education. Quinnipiac university releasing results on what American Voters think about getting help with college tuition. Take a look here. Looks like theres wide support. American voters support 61 to 31 major new spending by the government for Tuition Assistance at public colleges. Now, looking at the federal government, almost half, 49 saying theyre dissatisfied but not angry with washington. Well, we have been showing you another poll, that one out of iowa that appears to show that washington outsiders are gaining support. Now, this back stops the 48 saying an outsider would serve more effectively as president. Well bring you more developments throughout the hour. Today, president obama heads to alaska for a historic threeday visit. He will become the first sitting president to visit the Alaskan Arctic to bring attention to Climate Change. The president will land in anch anchorage later today. The name of Mount Mckinley was changed yesterday. It will be called by denali. The indigenous name means high one. The man accused of killing a sheriff deputy in texas will be arraigned on capital murder charges. Shannon miles shot Darren Goforth multiple times on friday. The Sheriffs Office is calling the attack unprovoked. Miles has a lengthy criminal record for resisting arrest, but has never spent more than a couple days in jail. There is a search in Spotsylvania County for a man who place say tried to abduct a woman. Sheriffs deputies say back in june, dermot lewis cornered a woman with a car and got into her car to talk to her. He attempted to pull the woman into her car and she escaped. She already had a protective ordinary against lewis. Some road work could affect your drive through d. C. Crews are replacing the virginia Avenue Railroad tunnel in southeast washington. You will see some lanes blocked around 11th and m streets southeast. Csx says the work will go on for the next ten weeks. Horror movie lovers are waking up without a legendary director. Wes craven created the nightmare on elm Street Series and he saw success recently for his work in the scream movies. He suffered from brain cancer. S he 76. We could learn if tom brady will play in the patriots first four games this year. The quarterback facing a suspension for the deflategate scandal. The third and final hearing in that case starts just hours from now. Well send you a push alert, a breaking news alert if a decision comes down this morning or if brady and the nfl reach a settlement. If the suspension is upheld it starts in ten days. Time for weather and traffic on the 1s. We want to look at what kind of day well have, a lot of kids headed back to school. Chuck bell is in the storm team 4 weather center. Thats right. You have to be all prepared. That means you have to have your pencil, more importantly an eraser and today youll need your umbrella as well. Skies over downtown, cloudy skies, still dry inside the capit capital beltway for now. But rain chances are sneaking up. Morning clouds and sprinkles around. Off and on shower chances throughout the course of the day. Nothing serious, but have the umbrella just in case. The heat and humidity are starting to make a big comeback. Major not really a big impact on your day from the weather today. Occasional showers, but mostly a cloudy day and a little bit more humid as well. This little guy there, hes ready for first day of school and he has the umbrella as well. Jeans and short sleeves. Out at the bus stop, sunrise at 6 35. Maybe a sprinkle or a shower this morning. Temperatures rising from the low to mid 70s now. Here you can see on storm team 4 radar, light rain southern st. Marys county. Occasional sprinkle, Prince William, fauquier, down through culpepper, west of fredericksburg. So nothing heavy out there yet. A little intermittent swipe or two of the wipers is all youll need to worry about for today. 73 in college park as well. High temperatures today will be in the mid to upper 80s. Your rain chances today stand at 40 . There will be a couple more chances for rain coming our way this week, but the biggest thing youll notice is how much warmer and how much humid it is 30 chance on your wednesday. Best chance of rain comes up on friday as a weather front comes in. The upside of that is, once it goes by, well be drying out and cooling back down again as we head to your weekend. Whats going on in news4 traffic . Breaking news on the roads. Eastbound, eastwest highway at edge veil street. We just lost the chopper, but a cyclist was hit. Travel in the westbound lanes, its slow getting through there. Prince georges county no major problems there. 66, a bit slow kind of the entire way. No problem on 95. Lets look at 66 at nutley. Kind of a lot of volume here this morning. We had an earlier crash at nutley. Its off to the right side of the roadway, but still slowing things down quite a bit. Montgomery village avenue, standard volume headed southbound. All the kids are headed back to class this morning. Again, this is an issue for folks if it hangs around too long. Eastbound eastwest highway, we have the crash in the eastbound lanes. Back in ten minutes. Thank you. 6 24 right now. Absolutely incredible story of survival to tell you about now. This is deep in mountains of california. Harwood was on her own for nine days in the mountains. Shes 62 years old. Search crews say she fell in the Sierra Nevada range, had a broken leg there. A nearby wildfire made their search that much more complicated. This lady crawled two miles to get to the body of water to have some water to put in her filtration