Always be aware of your surroundings. Try to keep your distracts minimized. We see so many folks walking around, paying attention to their smartphone. Reporter police asking anyone with information about any of these cases to come forward and contact the Arlington Police department. At 6 00, we spoke with neighbors who explain how they are taking safety precautions into their own hands. Reporting in arlington, meagan fitzgera fitzgerald, news4. An historic day in havan. The American Flag now flying at the u. S. Embassy in cuba for the first name more than 50 years. How far we have come in the few short months since our president s announcements in december. Reporter secretary of state john kerry declaring the american and cuban people are no longer enemies or rivals. Time to unfurl our flags, raise them up and let the world know that we wish each other well. And nbc4 news4s david culver has been in havana all week and there as that u. S. Flag went up. He joins us live with the response from those onlookers. David . Reporter hi there, wendy. Yeah, the crowd, they started lining up early this morning shall thought under the brutal, hot, havana sun for hours just to get a glimpse of this, the flag going up over the u. S. Embassy, first time in 54 years this happened in cuba. A mix of cubans, americans, tourists from other countries, all here to see history. A crowd growing slightly impatient. Raise the flag. Raise the flag. Reporter many of the kuhns w cubans who waited hours in the heat a step ahead, waving or wrapping themselves in their own American Flags, Others Holding tight to cubas. [ applause ] as it climbed the pole, cheers erupted. Moment historic. An historic moment . Yeah. It is an important moment, not only for cuba or the united states, but for all the world. Reporter jorge here with his wife he wonder why the hu. S. Ha relations with other nations. But not with cuba . [ speaking spanish ] friends. Long live cuba, long lift u. S. Americans also making a pointed to be here. This Coastal CarolinaCollege Basketball team, playing in cuba this week, rising junior, esllih wilson says he hopes it will help with the poor conditions he has seen here. Appreciate what you have in america, it comes to other countries, you see all this, makes you really appreciate things. This is the moment i have been waiting for this is the moment i have been waiting for. Right here. Reporter cubanamerican jorge left cuba for people that 1980. He is visiting his brothers and has a sign need market day. Years of separation has been tough. I think the biggest suffering and the biggest pain as a cubanamerican is the suffering of family. Reporter he says he hopes the values of the flag are ignored. The flag stands for what it stands for, which is liberty, justice and freedom for all. Reporter we hear so often about the changes, that seems tonight buzz word, folks talking about what needs to be different, but in talking with cubans about these new relations, they also point thought are things that they hope stay just the way they are. We will share more on that wendy, when we see you at 6 00. Thanks, david. New era. Be sure to stick around for innocence lightly news with lester holt just after news4 at 6 00. He is going to be angering live with more stories on this historic day. A developing story in the district, we just learned a deadly standing along the h street corridor started with a fight at a bus stop. One person has been arrested for mondays attack and his name is hector luis feliz. He is accused of getting into an argument at the bus stop with a man he did not know and stabbing him. As passengers were boarding the metro bus, a fight broke out. During the course of that fight, another individual, is suspect we have arrested, was believed to have come up and stabbed him. This case is part of a trouble trend because there have been 91 homicides in the district since the year started. Thats up from 72 at this same time last year. The district is already closing in on the 102 homicides that it had in all of 2014. We now know the name of the fairfax woman killed about a crash in fredericksburg. Her name is angela mcquillan. She was driving south on i95 early sunday morning when she got near the central park shopping area. Her car suddenly ran off the road and caught fire. No one else was inside. Police are trying to figure out what caused her to drive off the road. We are hearing about some new fallout from that metro derailment, wins is learned that metro leaders knew about a track defect and didnt do anything about it, there are now new calls for some change at the top. Transportation reporter adam tuss joins us live from metro center with more on who may be asked to step aside. Adam . Thats right, chris. The head of metros board of directors is in the hot seat. When we contacted him about all, they said he is not surprised by the criticism. This is the chairman of metros board of directors, mort downey, and directly in the center of metros woes. Multiple insiders tell news4 the recent revelation that metro knew about a section of misaligned rail yet still left it in service for about a month, all the while carrying trains with passengers, could force downey out as head of the board. Insiders say he doesnt have a handle on things. Downey recently testifying on capitol hill. I believe we have made Real Progress but we cannot claim we are where we need to be. Reporter metro has been facing criticism on every front from the federal government to local leaders and yes, from riders. I dont believe they have our safety in the forefront. Reporter jan chase rides every day as leadership an issue. I think its top down, definitely, from the leadership all the way down. Reporter we reached out to downey via email, he is out of the country on vacation, say he is not surprised a focused now and says the board needs to be more demanding, not just asking questions but assuring they are getting timely and correct answers. He says perhaps the board should have independent engineers working for them. When asked if he will be replaced, he said these up to the appointing officials. And again though, from riders how would you rate your confidence in metro right now . Pretty low. One out of ten, about a two. One or two out of ten . Yeah. Yeah. Pretty bad. Reporter now coming up at 6 00, this issue is reaching much higher than just local leaders. The u. S. Department of france portation getting involved. How that could affect metro leadership. Wendy, back to you. Adam tuss. Well, county executive baker announces plans to move forward with the purple line. Baker released a Statement Today saying that light rail would be good for the environment and good for the quality of life in the county. The county just agreed to give 20 million more to the project on top of the 100 million already pledged. In exchange, the purple line will start in the city of glenn ridge and the control center will be based there. Public transportation is so much better than everybody driving around in their just, you know, one car, all by themselves. Use it . Yes, i would. Really . My family takes the subway. So, yeah. The purple line would run through Prince Georges County to bethesda in Montgomery County and planners are hoping to Start Construction on this project in may. A woman in Central Virginia is defending herself for planlg jar rising an o planlg rising play jer rising an obituary. Cramer says she liked the first person perspective. The florida woman had written it before she died and her family is not mad, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. A driver blindsided, attacked and then carjacked here in our area, even after an arrest. Why police say their work is not done yet. Im Darcy Spencer along the Chesapeake Bay off of sandy point. Nearly a dozen and a half people have lost their lives in boating accidents so far this year. Coming up on news4 at 5 00, i will tell you the number one thing that people are not doing that is costing them their lives. And we are here live at the Prince William county fair for Opening Night. We want you to come out, say hi. Coming up, let you know what kind of weather you can expect if you are planning absolutely Beautiful Day down at National Harbor and thats clear indication of just how many people are going to be getting out on their boats this weekend. But you know, it has been a deadly summer on the water in maryland. 17 people have died so far this year in boating accidents and the biggest priority right now to get more people to wear their life jackets. Why . Because 14 of those 17 people who kind the water this year, they didnt have them on and believe it or not, it only takes about 60 seconds for an adult to drown, only 20 seconds for a child. News4s Darcy Spencer has this important reminder for boaters. Reporter it is a perfect day on the water off sandy point but too often the summer, a perfect day has turned to tragedy. 17 times this summer, someone has died in a boating accident on the water in maryland. Many times, those deaths could have been prevented if they had been wearing one of these, a life jacket. Takes just a few minutes to buckle all the buckles. Reporter 14 of the 17 victims were not. On a boat, if you hit rough water or another object, you dont have seat belts holding you in, a good chance you will find yourself in the water and thats going to be your lifesaver. Reporter the victims range in age from 7 to 63. The deaths include a Prince Georges County man who died last weekend on a family boating trip. They had life jackets on board but they were stowed away. The boat took on water and it went down less than three minutes. Reporter the numbers dont count the nearmisses. This officer helped rescue an entire family could have ended up among the statistics. With them floating along about 45 minutes, they were holding on to the skis, the xpris sinking, the life jackets actually saved their lives. Reporter as labor day approaches, police are trying to turn the tide on the fay the way it a new safety campaign, increasing pat tronlts water around at hightraffic marinas to push their safety message and enforce laws meant to keep everyone alive. Officers will be checking for life jackets and other required safety equipment, looking for reckless boaters and targeting alcohol or drugimpaired operators. Reporter youre going to start seeing those additional safety patrols this weekend. Along the Chesapeake Bay, Darcy Spencer, news4. Im carol maloney, redskins get the win but a couple of major losses is what we are talking about today due to injury. Here is the latest, backup running back cyrus rhett out for what is believed to be a torn acl and mcl. And watching what happened to tight end niles paul last night, paul out for the season with a fractured left ankle. He had to wipe away the tears before being carted off. This especially painful, paul was named the starting title end and he has become a leader in the locker room, paul tweeting today tough, tough loss. And wait until you see the emotional reaction from coach jay gruden. Going to have that on news4 at 6 00. Thank you, carol. A university of maryland basketball coach just resigned after he was accused of sex abuse in connection to his former job. Bryce mckey stepped down after the university of maryland suspended him today. The school hired him as the assistant coach for the womens team in april. Sex abuse allegations stem from his previous coaching job at Xavier University in ohio. One of his former players accused mckey of assaulting her at his home in kentucky last may. The victims father laid out the allegations after the mckeys arraignment today. But he said he gave her alcohol and after a while, he was talking to her and started to put his hands on her, made a move. And later on, he made another move. And she told him she wasnt interested. Mckey is also accused of trying to pay off friend of the victim in an attempt to avoid criminal charges. An actor was hurt when a stage collapsed at the madeira school. The 21yearold woman is doing okay after she got stuck with when a ramp collapsed on the stage. The school says the woman is with an acting troupe called traveling players. She was trying to adjust the stage ramp when it fell on her leg. An ambulance was called and the School Security crew was able to free her. Over in louden county, School Busses are rolling out earlier this week, a week before labor day. And thats why new teachers reported for orientation today. The red carpet rolled out for them, 700 new teachers are joining the growing school district. A lot of them have come full circle. 14 of the new teachers went to Loudoun County schools, at least three of them credit their former government teacher with inspiring them to get an education. She makes class challenging but also fun at the same time and it was just inspiring to see a smart, intelligent, powerful woman being a teacher. Well said. School starts in loudoun on monday, 35ug 1st. 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Or lease a 2015 jetta s for 139 a month after a 1000 volkswagen bonus. All of the Major Players in the race for the white house are in iowa tonight for an election tradition, a trip to the state fair. But first, we are going to tell you about some good news for the bush family. Her name is poppy and nbc correspondent general it nah bush hager and her husband is celebrating the birth of hair second daughter, poppy louise hager, named after her grandfather, called poppy as a child. They released a get toe of the grandparents are poppy and big sister milla. Mr. Bush got emotional when he learned the baby was named after him. And jeb bush is with all the other major candidates, again out in iowa. It is a tradition, the iowa state fair, they are flipping burgers, taking pictures, wooing voters, the first state to hold primaries but rumblings that another big name could join the field. Former Vice President al gore. Jeb bush says it proves Hillary Clinton should worry about securing the nomination. Mrs. Clinton seems to not be able to have integrity and to tell the truth and if she is not doing anything wrong, then just be honest about it and show. Vice President Joe Biden being talked about as another possible candidate but he hasnt made a decision yet. Our storm team4 coverage includes coverage from one of the biggest state fairs in virginia. We begin with vj, taking a look at the come back, heat and humidity on the way. Thats right. Our last stretch of the sticky stuff ended not this past weekend but the early part of last week and here we go again. We have been taking a look at the latest data coming in, wait it stacks up in my weather headlines, 90degree stretch back this weekend and in terms of rainfall, we havent had any widespread big rains in a while, looking like it could be dry for a while, but when this rain comes, it could come in a big way. Oppressive, yes, next week, in fact the 90s again starting this weekend. Fact nor a little bit of humidity and pushing the feellike factor to the upper 90s, sunday afternoon, for sure on monday. Monday, tuesday could be very oppressive for us, 87 right now, there is your south wind, five to ten Miles Per Hour with dough have sunshine, High Pressure in control, check out the overnight readings, folks, 66, hager town, 61, manassas, 65 right in d. C. , yes, it still is going to be comfortable, going to get the change but the change is going to be very gradual coming throughout our day tomorrow. Here is a look at the sky, a few clouds coming through, theres 3 00 on saturday, the evening on saturday, touch of humidity, we will top out around 91 degrees by 3 00, look at that, the little sunshine stacked across our map on our hour by hour planner, mid to upper 80s during tomorrow evening with a very light wind. We do have, again, just a little bit of a chance of a popup thunderstorm but the best chance comes toward the end of next week so, yes, go ahead and wash the car this week and you will be able to get a lot of mileage out of those quarters. Amelia segal with the forecast for the fair. Amelia, you having a little fun yet . Yeah, vj. The gates just opened. People coming in for Opening Night of the fair, the largest county fair in the state, out here with the storm team4 by four it is hot. The temperature right another, 90 degrees, the weather station taking in all the information. The most part, looking at calm winds, huge mid really not an issue. You can see dew point temperature here, 56. I point that out. Dew point is over 65 it is humid, nowhere near that, we want you to come out tonight, the only night that nbc washington is going to be here. We are handing out lots of goodies and we have also some great fair food. I dont know, what are you guys thinking . We have a burrito, a turkey leg, we had chicken cheese steak, i think. I think im thinking about the turkey leg here. Also, another awesome event that we are doing here, we want