Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im e. Rerika gonzalez. Change of plans this weekend, well tell you the handful of metro stations closing starting tonight. And the honor students are preparing to give for a beloved principal after his death. A man arrested four times for threatening to assassinate u. S. President s. Who local lawmakers say dropped the ball. But first, lets check in with tom kierein. With pleasure this morning. We have got beautiful weather moving in. This flag at Union Station on capitol hill is flapping a little bit, a bit of a breeze coming in out of the north and west. That is bringing in the lower humidity. Your friday headlines, a mild morning. Much less humid afternoon. Beautiful summer weather coming in and then a dry pattern is going to be setting up here for the next seven days. Temperatures getting much more comfortable now. Metro area, right in washington, eastern southern suburbs, low 70s. Still humid around the bay. Were down into the 60s, most of maryland and virginia and into the mountains only around 60s. And next weather and traffic on the 1s, your drive time forecast for this friday. How are the roads doing now, melissa . Right now looking good. We have some construction that is cleared out of the way. Id love to tell you about. 66 east at nutley, all lanes are now open. We had the two right lanes blocked earlier. 270 northbound and southbound, looking quite good. Nice and clear, 66 overall, 95 in virginia, overall, again, looking good as well. Taking a look here, top of the beltway, dont have any issues there. 95 and 66 is rolling along fine. If you plan to take metro at all, get ready for some waiting. Four stations are closing. All but one lane is delayed. News4s Zachary Kiesch is joining us from the stadium armory metro that just open and it will be shutting down in less than 24 hours from now, right zachary . Reporter yeah, youre right. Starting here in southeast d. C. , now the closures go into effect one minute after midnight tonight. If youre a regular metro rider take note. A lot of track work is happening. Youll want to take note at some of these closures. Take a look right here. Were talking about the potomac avenue metro station, stadium armory, minnesota avenue and deanwood. Green, blue, silver lines run about every 15 minutes and the red line will run about every 20 minutes. One other thing that you will see here on sunday, here at stadium armory, a full stadium drill. It is really designed to simulate smoke and fire in the tunnel. We are talking about some of the things we saw at Lenfant Plaza about a year ago. So you will see that here at stadium armory on sunday. Dont be alarmed. It will be just a drill. Reporting live, Zachary Kiesch. Back to you guys in the stadium. Thank you. Today, a woman who was shot by a d. C. Police officer after she refused to drop a knife is back in court. Renita nettles will have a mental observation hearing. She started a fire in a house on clay terrace earlier this month. Police and fire crews arrived, nettles walked towards the Police Officer holding a knife. She had used a mixture of pcp and synthetic drugs that very day. The hearing was supposed to happen yesterday, no word on why it was postponed. Today, two women will be sentenced for a murder at a d. C. Hotel. Jamyra gallmon pled guilty to killing messerschmitt earlier this year. According to investigators messerschmitt was looking for other men on craigslist. Gallmon posed as a man and robbed and killed him. She could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. Right now, nerves on high alert in los angeles. This after a big explosion downtown. The explosion happened underground from below a 19story office building. These are pictures inside of that building. The explosion loud. Felt for blocks. The blast sparked a fire and knocked the power out down the street. All the way down to the Staples Center where a shania twain concert was going on. Several people were hurt. Sounds like not badly. Our sister station out there knbc said a generator may have exploded. Family, friends and students will gather today to remember a Montgomery County high school principal. A Memorial Service will be held tonight for Wootton High School principal michael doran. Police found him dead in his apartment on wednesday and they believe the 64yearold died of natural causes. The service will take place at wootton stadium between 6 00 and 9 00 tonight. Grief counselors will be on hand to support students and their families. Right now a man who has been in prison four times for threatening to kill american president s is in a d. C. Jail. Its a story you saw first on news4. Archie monroe glass has admitted to threatening to kill them on four occasions. He was released from a federal prison in oklahoma, but Court Records said he violated his parole and made two trips to d. C. This year. The secret service stopped him outside the white house and that has a lot of people upset. Eleanor Holmes Norton said somebody dropped the ball. Im surprised because the secret service is known for catching or at least tracking people who threaten the president. What happened to them this time . News4 learned glass stopped taking his psychiatric medication before his latest trip to d. C. A federal judge says president ial candidate Hillary Clinton violated government policy by storing her work email on a private server. That comes as the state department has been ordered to coordinate more closely with the fbi on the inquiry into whether classified information was mishandled in this email arrangement. Polls show the inquiry is taking a toll on clintons president ial campaign. Clinton holds a wide, but narrowing lead in the democratic field against vermont senator bernie sanders. Today, if youre looking for a new job, you might want to head to the norton job fair here in the district. It takes place at the Washington Convention center. You can get tips on updating your resume, job hunting and preparing for an interview. You can learn how to dress for success. The event opens at 10 00 with the job fair starting at 11 00. Its held by congresswoman eleanor Holmes Norton. Developing right now, a week after explosions at a factory in china, we are getting word of new fires and a new threat to the people who live nearby. Tom has your drive time forecast at 5 11. What time he says things will start to warm up. A d. C. Murder suspect talks to our Mark Segraves, he said hes ready to turn himself in. What neighbo new into the live desk right now, out of bangkok, new fires are burning there this morning in the city of tianjin. This is of course where those explosions went off at a chemical warehouse. Firefighters today trying to put out this new set of fires and flames. Also new, high levels of cyanide in the city. 356 times higher than what is safe. This is in the evacuation zones, so workers cleaning up from the warehouse explosions are wearing protective suits. You see one there. Dead fish are even washing up in tianjin. Testing is happening now to see if this fish kill has anything to do with the explosions and what is in the air there now. Back to you. All right, kristin, thank you. Lets get a look at your drive time forecast this morning. Tom kierein is in the storm team 4 weather center. We are drying out after we had the heavy downpours yesterday afternoon and evening. Theres the sky over washington, clearing out beautifully for the morning. Midday and afternoon, all green lights. Traveling on dry roads this morning and this afternoon. Temperatures in the mid 70s through much of the morning commute. Afternoon, many it to mid to upper 80s. Right now, showers are exiting. If youre going to the beaches how does that look now, melissa . Right now it looks great. Nice and early in the morning. Take a live look right now at the bay bridge, no problem either way there this morning. Maryland Transportation Authority just sent out this little update for us. Best travel times of course we know this, but something to mention today. Before 10 00 or after 10 00, for the least amount of traffic which is our goal. Inner and outer loop of the beltway, looking fine. History will be made when first female rangers will graduate. What t right now, police in the district are searching for this man. 19yearold marcus king. Hes wanted on Second Degree murder charges. An a. U. Grad was killed by a stray bullet near the entrance to the shaw metro station on saturday and police say Matt Shlonsky was an innocent bystander. Now, the man wanted in the shooting says hes innocent. Marcus king spoke to news4s Mark Segraves by phone earlier this week. So tell me, did you have any anything to do with that shaw murder . No, sir. Why do they think that youre involved . Because i was right there, i was right there by the barbershop. King told news4 that he plans to turn himself in. We are working to find out if that is indeed doing to happen. It seems that many of you in the shaw neighborhood are concerned with the growing violence and anc commissioner spoke with Area Neighbors about safety concerns at a meeting last night. 5 17 now. Today a Montgomery County man accused of trying to cook meth at a federal facility will be in court. The fbi says Christopher Bartley triggered an explosion at the National Institute of standards and Technology Last month. They said he was trying to cook meth when that happened. He was a leader of the police force at nist. He is facing a single charge of trying to manufacture methamphetamine. If convicted, he could spend as much as 20 years in prison. North korea says its preparing for war after exchanging artillery fire with the south. This morning, the north says it placed its front line troops in a quasi state of war. South korea is warning the north from taking rash actions. On thursday, south korea fired several rounds of after artillery. We are hearing from construction workers caught in the middle of a big gas explosion at a school in new york city. It happened in the bronx. Look at the school now, windows all blown out. The explosion so power. So powerful it shook windows at homes. Our sister station said workers were working on the gas line and there was an explosion. Three of the workers have burns. It was hit with a torch and it just blew up. Thats what we heard from the foreman. Thats one of the Construction Works there. Mayor de blasio saying its hard to say if students will be able to go back to school on the 9th. Investigators will try to figure it what happened. Back to you. Kristin, thank you. 5 19. In georgia, the First Female Army rangers will graduate. Captain Kristen Griest and shaye haver will receive the coveted award. They received incredible praise from leaders and their peers. They spoke yesterday with reporters about why they joined. The reasons why i chose to come were the same as the men here, to get the experience of the elite, Leadership School that the army has to provide. I came here to just be a better leader and improve myself and i feel like that i did that. Dont lose sight of it and keep reminding yourself why youre there. Despite proving their grit, theyre still unable to join infantry, Army Special Forces units. That could change though. Next year after the pentagon reviews rules on women in combat. So are you looking to shed a few pounds but dont have time to spend hours at the gym . Yeah. Well, a new fda approved machine can melt away fat. Its called the vanquish machine. The panels dont touch the skin but they radiate heat at 110 degrees through radio frequency. Plastic surgeons say the ideal patient is someone who is about 20 pounds overweight. This is not cheap stuff though. A onehour treatment once a week for five weeks will cost you between 2,000 and 3,000. What . The gym membership costs you 30 bucks a month. Get to it. skins fans are shaking their heads this morning. Rg3 hurt again. And its not clear when hes going to be back. The quarterback got a concussion in the teams preseason game last night. He was sacked three times on just four possessions. Take a look at this. After the third one, little slow to get up. He eventually walks off the field. The team says theyre also treating rg3 for a possible shoulder injury. Thats minor though. The skins play against the ravens in baltimore next week. Not what fans want to hear. Good luck, guys. 5 21 our time right now. We are waking up to a really nice morning across the district and it will be a nice weekend. Thats right. Tom show them your omg face. So great this week. Yeah, the sky has evicted the humidity and oh, my goodness, wonderful change. Its occurring right now with the northwest breeze. We have the lower humidity and cooler temperatures moving in. Look at the temperature, shenandoah valley, around 60 degrees and out in west virginia, only in the 50s now. Metro area nearby suburbs in Montgomery County the 60s. Near 70 in Prince Georges County. Still humid around the bay, but the lower humidity is coming your way as well. In the next several hours. Theres a partly cloudy sky over the metro area. Live view from the tower camera. Temperatures by 8 00 in the low to mid 70s. Hitting upper 80s by the mid afternoon. A bit of a breeze through the morning. Thatll settle down through the afternoon. Lots of sunshine through the day. Enjoy. The uncomfortable humidity we had yesterday, gone. It will be pleasant here for the next seven days. Dont have any high humidity in the forecast here. Beautiful weather through the weekend. Afternoon highs in the mid and upper 80s on saturday. Perfect beach and pool weather. If you walk outside, im going on a bike ride, should be beautiful for that. Then on sunday, partly cloudy, upper 80s. Not too humid. It might get humid for a time on on monday. But then shot of dry air moves in tuesday, wednesday, thursday next week. Highs in the low and mid 80s. Delightful, low humidity. Next weather and traffic on the 1s a look at our neighborhood highs on this fabulous friday and now melissak is looing at is melissa is looking at the interstate. Nice and green and all of the earlier road work has cleared out of the way. Thats great for anybody headed out any time soon this morning. Taking a look now at 270, northbound and southbound, out of frederick, down to the spur. Everything looking quite good right now. No major problems. Nice and green. You can when you hop in your car listen to our friends on wtop 103. 5 f. M. Top of the beltway, no issues. 29, 95, b. W. Parkway, nice and clear. Same thing when we look at Prince Georges County and there again, 270 at montrose, no major issues. A little bit of volume but moving nicely. Back in ten minutes. A local mother daughter duo have taken their back to school brain storming ideas and turned them into a successful business. They own the online and all the stuff they sell is for dorms. The pair began with stylized building and all things bedding and all things for that and then it took off. Moms or parents in general want their kids to be comfortable in college. So the whole aspect of decorating your dorm room is an activity that you do just before you leave for school and its a fun one. Our first customers are now in their first apartments. Everybody says, i can still buy from dormify, right . Business has grown 700 since the operation began and the products ships as far away as australia and the u. K. A man who taunted a florida sheriff on twitter is in custody right now. The florida felon was hiding from police when he tweeted here i am. Logan hale was wanted along with another man in connection with a burglary. Now the twitter battle has gone viral. I like a little levity in life and i appreciate him giving us something to giggle about today. Now, the sheriff had the last laugh tweeting logan hale you are on your way to jail, your attempts to hide were to no avail. Epic fail. Well, labor can be a pretty tense time for a mom and dad to be. Theres one boston woman who cut the tension with some dance moves. Take a look at this is how a mom tried to induce labor. She just got a got to bust a move. Tootsie roll. Tootsie roll. She posted the video on facebook. Its gotten more than 4 million views. The couple did welcome a baby boy wednesday morning and they say her dance moves are to thank for that speedy delivery. Whatever you have to do, right . Not first time i heard this. Really . I heard a couple of natural ways to try to induce labor. Good for her and congratulations to them. More fallout this morning in the Ashley Madison website cyber attack. The tv personality publicly fessing up and apologizing. One local School District warning parents this morning if you dont get this done today, your students wont be allowed in the classroom come monday. Lets take a live look outside. Very nice. Three words to describe today perfect summer weather. News4 today starts now. Just about 5 30 now on a friday morning. Good morning. Im aaron gilchrist. Im erika gonzalez. It is going to be a picturesque start to the weekend. Lets send it on over to storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Good morning. There is the capitol glowing under a mostly clear sky on this friday morning. Were starting off with a clearing sky, lower humidity moving in. Western northern suburbs in the 60s now. Afternoon highs in the metro area, should be mid to upper 80s. Farther north and west, in the 80s. Panhandle of west virginia, Washington County into allegany. Only near 80 right in central west virginia. And much of Northern Virginia will be in the mid 80s. Right near the chesapeake bay, low 80s. Lots of sunshine throughout the day. As the lower humidity does move in. Coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s, well have your bus stop forecast as we have students back to School Feeling finally li