I do have good news. Thank you very much. Welcome, everybody. A Beautiful Day coming up from the Weather Department today. 61 in gaithersburg, 63 in brandywine. Suns not up for another hour and a half. Temperatures will stay in the mid60s through 11 00. And then 70s. Planning out the afternoon, sunny, warm, low humidity. Temperatures hovering in the low 80s with 100 sunshine for the afternoon and thinning out to evening. Suns down at 7 48 this evening. Holding temperatures in the 80s through 7 00 and back to the low 70s by 7 00 p. M. Emilia siegel has that school forecast. Right now, we want to stick with the Biggest Issue that is going to be the biggest problem probably throughout the morning. At least lets hope so that no crashes top up. The ramp from southbound gw parkway to inbound key bridge shut down. Inner loop and outer loop looking good. Nice and green. 95, dont have any problems there. Prince georges county, nice and green this morning. Of course, they all went back to school yesterday morning. 270 at montrose road, southbound just moving along fine. See you at 5 11. Right now, investors on wall street are watching the markets across the globe. The asian markets are mixed. Some up, some down. Chinas index fell, despite beijing cutting a key Interest Rate to help stabilize the financial market. Now, most of the Southeast Asian markets fell wednesday. Japans nikkei rose just over 2 . This morning, investors on wall street hope u. S. Stocks will rebound. The dow dropped six days straight, losing 205 points yesterday. Back to you, guys. Kristin, thank you. New this morning, the washington, d. C. Area has the worst gridlock in the country. At least thats according to a new study from texas a m. It says that commuters in the region waste more fuel than any other commuters. How bad is it, Meagan Fitzgerald keeping a close eye on the commute. Meagen, good morning. Reporter good morning, aaron. Its pretty bad. Thats why it doesnt come as a shock to a lot of folks, you take that commute every day. Usually what it comes down to k carefully crafting what time you hit the roadway. We all know, wait another 30, 45 minutes not going to look like this. But the study said d. C. Commuters waste nor time in gas and traffic than commuters elsewhere. The study fount in 2014, daily commuters spend an average of 82 hours in traffic. That means we even beat out los angeles, coming in at 80 hours. As far as gas is concerned, the study says last year commuters wasted 35 gallons in gas. That amounts to 1800. Now, the takeaway, here, of course, we all know its all about timing when you decide to get on the road. But, aaron, get news is, everybody wants to work here. 5 04 is your time right now, today some people at metro can move their jobs following the derailment earlier this morning. Metros board of directors has a closed meeting reviewing an investigation into how a train flew off the tracks at the smithsonian station august 6th and why that problem that caused it went unfixed for a month. The meeting is at 11 30 thirs morning. The Washington Post says the investigation could be made public bit end of the week. Metro Transit Police now patrolling a road. You may have seen it where someone shot a man on a metro bus last week. Metro detour the bus around the road after that happened. And is back on its normal road. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said, quote no part of our city can be abandoned by metro. The man who flue a gyrocopter in the u. S. Capitol airspace, he could land a year in jail. It was his protests against Campaign Finance laws. He faces as much as 9 1 2 years in prison or six felony and misdemeanor charges. Firefighters say a massive barn fire was an accident. The firefighters tweeted that the cause was likely spontaneous combustion. Youre looking at video here. This hay barn ignited around 7 00 last night. There was little they could do because there were no hydrants in the area. No one was hurt. Its truly back to school for the students at thomas stone elementary in prince georges county. A water main break forced School Officials to cancel the first day of school in mt. Rainier. Wssd says the water main is fixed and that means classes start at 7 45. While youre running errands this morning you might want to pick up a backpack to help news4s backpacks 4 kids campaign. Angie goff will be collecting them. Emilia siegel will be down there and so will lauren ricketts. So come on by with backpacks. We are working a developing story right now coming out offage begof a afghanistan. We know two nato troops were shot and were looking to find out what the troops nationalities are. Its pretty mild out there, 66 degrees. Lets be honest, youre already wondering about that weekend. It is wednesday. Emilia siegel a developing story now, two nato Service Members were killed in afghanistan. Nato says this mornings attack happened inside a military compound in the helmand providence. The gunman were wearing Afghan National security uniforms. Both were killed. Nato has not released the nationalities of the Service Members who were killed. Today, an argue leader, Law Enforcement and a state Police Troopers friends and family will dedicate an overpass to her. The i395 bridge over south glebe road will be called Kathryn Vernon bridge. Vernon died 20 years ago after she pulled someone over for violating hov rules. She was the first woman and first black Virginia StatePolice Trooper to be killed in the line of duty. She was just 32 years old. 5 11, your time. Weather and traffic on the 1s. And well start with chuck bell and what to wear forecast. A Beautiful Day outside. Youre going to need short sleeves. Shorts if you can get away with wearing shorts to school today and sunblock. Right now, temperatures in the 60s. 61 in new market, maryland. 61 in olney. 64 degrees in sterling this morning. School day forecast, mid60s now. Its going to be an aplus kind of a day today. Amelia segal will be out there at the federal credit union coming up in 30 minutes. Now a check on traffic with melissa mollet. Right now, clara barton parkway, the main lanes, not off to the shoulder quite yet. 270 and old hundred road, you see a tiny bit of volume there heading southbound. Bw parkway, 95, everything green there. 95 in virginia, and no problems there. Remember, this will be an issue, ramp from southbound gw parkway to key bridge closed until friday. Take the roosevelt. More power to police, why d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is pushing for just that. Open or closed . What we just learned about right now, flights are back under after a fire at dublins airport. Look at this picture here. It is a hangar burning the roof completely on fire. This forced the runways to shut down. And flights at the airport had to be suspended. The fire was in a restricted area, separate from where passengers are. We dont know at this point how the fire started. Back to you. Thank you, kristin. Developing right now the Washington Monument closed today after the elevator inside broke last night. Molette green is gathering details. Outside the monument this morning. On a lovely morning. But whats going on out there, mollett . Reporter good morning, we just got news that crews are arriving sometime this morning to get on top of this latest elevator problem. We told you right when we went on the air sat 4 30 the monument will not open today because of all of this. The malfunction forced a bunch of team who were inside just before 10 00 last night to walk down. One visitor told us about 50 people were inside at the time. Plus two pregnant women brought down in stair chairs. Elected to do so, that was voluntary. They were not in any distress. Just did not want to run the risk of taking 900 steps to the ground here. This elevator problem is a nagging one for this particular attraction as recently as may and june. Were staying on top of the latest development here at the Washington Monument. Reporting live from the National Mall, im molette green, news4. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is planning another big move to eliminate homicides. She plans to ask Law Enforcement to have more power. Specifically, parole officers will be able to search convicted convicts at any time while on probation. You can talk about the citys spike in crime at a neighborhood meeting tonight. Police in the 2nd District Holding that meeting at 7 00 p. M. In idaho headquarters northwest. The 2nd district includes georgetown and dupont circle. Even the mayor says something has to change. Two women died walking near the United Medical center in southeast. Theres no crosswalk or stop light. People just dart across the busy southern avenue. You can see from this video. Police say a vehicle hit and killed one of the victims friday. Other victims daughter has this message for city leaders. You need to get out there and put a stop sign out there or stop light to save those peoples lives. Theyre going to work, theyre trying to get the bus. You need to do something. We asked Muriel Bowser about this issue, and she said she will consider adding a stop light in front of the medical center. In news4 your health, what you wear to visit a newborn may be dangerous. Researchers in australia found that clothing worn to neonatal care units may put babies to respiratory problems. Respiratory virus, rsv as its known, officials agree anyone visiting a newborn should be asked to wear a separate sterilized gown. Treatment beds will be added for addicts on the shore. The state will spend 10 million to the initial state response on the growing heroin epidemic Paper Task Force put together to look at the rising drug rate will provide a full report later this year. Crews no longer have to search through a massive landslide in alaska. They recovered the body of a final victim from the landslide yesterday. The City Building official went missing under a deluge of rocks and mud in sitka, alaska last week. That landslide also killed two other men. Right now, new warnings as Tropical Storm erica moves closer to shore. New Tropical Storm warnings have been issued for puerto rico. The storm is moving westward towards the leeward islands. Puerto rico is already dealing with showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of danny. Its been a fairly quiet hurricane season. Its getting a little busy out there. Chuck, we though youre keeping an eye on erica and what were seeing outside around here . Absolutely right. Hurricane season peaks the first week of september. Its been relatively quiet, courtesy of el nino. But it only takes one, two days was the 21st anniversary of hurricane andrew in august of 1992. That was an incredibly quiet season but it only takes one. Heres the very late on Tropical Storm erika. Dont just focus on where the icon is here. It can be anywhere in this whole cone of uncertainty. Theres a widespread on the cone because theres not a whole lot of agreement on the computer models. Most of the longterm trends try and turn it away from the coastline but that could be a last minute turn. As a result, in south florida, sunday or tuesday of next week, if you have travel plans or friends and relatives in south florida, be advised that erika may be something to contend with. 61 in springfield, virginia. Your commuters forecast, mid60s for the next hour or two, up to the low 70s at 8 00 and 10 00. Highs this afternoon, 80 in hagerstown. 84 in annapolis this afternoon. Going out to a movie tonight, dinnertime, temperatures in the low 80s. Movie time, 8 00, temperatures falling back down into the low 70s. And the humidity levels are nice and pleasant for today. But with time, as we get towards the weekend, more and more humid air and warmer air breaks more uncomfortable here. 85 today and tomorrow. 86, friday. With a little more humidity in the air. As you get into the weekend, high temperatures back into the 90s. Low 90s on sunday. It will be a slight chance for a shower sunday and monday afternoon. New problems here on connecticut avenue. Orthbound connecticut here at the beltway. I saw this earlier and it disappeared. Now, its back here. Two northbound lanes are blocked because of road work. Just a warning there for you. Remember, this is going to be an issue as volume and morning commute pick up. Ramps in southbound gw parkway to inbound key bridge that is shut down until friday. You cannot get on the key bridge that way. Alternate is the roosevelt bridge. Take that said in. Plan on it, allow a little extra time. Outer loop at clara barton parkway could have that disabled vehicle. It doesnt look like youll have to worry too much of that. And 66 just fine 95, no problems there. Aaron. Its 5 23 right now. Today, we expect a colorado judge to formally sentence convicted Movie Theater shooter james holmes. That sentence will be life without the possibility to parole. Thats because the jury couldnt agree on the death penalty. Those same jurors found holmes guilty of killing 12 people and wounds dozens more. One of three men who stopped a shooter on a france train is back in the United States. He and two friends stopped a man. The gunman might be charged with terrorism, although his lawyer says he was only trying to rob the train. Today, defense will call witnesses to the stand in the rape trial in new hampshire. 19yearold owen labrie is accused of raping a 15yearold freshman at the st. Paul prep school last year. He said it was part of a tradition called the senior salute. Graduates seniors have sex with freshmen. Yesterday, the detective testified. He said that it could be a great sense of pride for an older student to take the virginity of a younger student. The 2015 wnba champs head to the white house. Its a longstanding tradition. Phoenix mercury visits the white house. Its the third championship win. They defeated the chicago sky last september. Fred obama will be honoring the teams efforts in giving back to the community as well as their suggestion on the court. Welly6 the 1 million paing accidentally damaged by a clumsy 12yearold boy. The boy tripped. Punched a hole in the middle of that 17th century oil painting. This happened over the weekend. Flowers is worth 1. 54 million. Fortunately, the masterpiece was fixed. Thats what insurance is for. The boy didnt have to cough up any money. That video will go viral. He will be embarrassed for the rest of his life. Right. Guess what you did when you were a child . Oh, my goodness. In other stores, if you break it, you have to buy it. He got lucky. Yeah. The donald is once again in decision 2016 spotlight why he had a journalist escorted out of the q a session. A little tougher waking up the kids this morning . Well, dont let them miss the bus. Chuck is back with weather. Now at 5 30, a Prince William county man is facing charges, accused of running a drug operation in his home. And were learning how the United States post office has been his demise. Trump in trouble again . Why the president ial hopeful is once again making headlines. Good morning to you, im eun yang. And im aaron gilchrist. Welcome back to news4 today. On this wednesday morning. Were waking up to a comfortable 66 degrees outside of our studios here. It feels so nice. It really does. We really have just a treat the last couple days. Meteorologist chuck bell is keeping an eye on the rest of the forecast. Thats right. Dont get too used to the august without humidity standards that weve been setting around here. In the meantime, we can open up the windowsnd enjoy it. 61 in gaithersburg. 64 in manassas. And leesburg. Coming home later this afternoon, temperatures in the low to mid80s. An absolutely gorgeous way to be outside today. Enjoy your hometown forecast, green belt, maryland, what a great day today, temperatures in the 80s this afternoon. The key bridge will have lighter than average traffic . Lighter than average traffic because you cant turn on to it from the parkway. Ramp from southbound gw parkway to inbound key bridge, again, closed through friday. Alternate is the roosevelt bridge. Take that instead. Wide look at the beltway, no problems there. 66 rolling along fine. 270, northbound southbound looks good at this point. As well as prince georges county. Going to have travel times in ten minute. A man in Prince William county is facing charges after being accused of operating a 1 million synthetic drug operation out of his home. John flaherty was arrested last week. Police found over 1 million in supplies at his home in haymarket. Other items were found a storage unit in warrington. Hes being accused of using the u. S. Postal to ship the drugs across the country. Basically, it was small, looking into basically the money aspect of the narcotics distribution. During that search, we found marijuana, marijuana wax, handguns. Flaherty was arrested in las vegas where he has a second home. Hes now awaiting extradition from nevada. Hes due in court in october. 5 31 now. To decision 2016. Excuse me, sit down, you werent called. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Go ahead. No, you dont. You havent been called. Go back to univision. That was donald trump in iowa going back and north with univision anchor jorge ramos. The anchor was trying to ask the question about trumps immigration policy plans. Trump told other reporters you cant just stand up and shout. Edward lawrence is joining us from capitol hill. Good morning. Good morning. Love him or hate him, donald trump is making the president ial primary race very interesting. As you saw there he fought with another journalist last night. Trump spoke to 3,000 people in iowa. But the real comments came after his comments. The anchor from univision started asking specifically about trumps plan to remove and kick out all 19 mi