Loop of the beltway. Now for more is jack taylor. Thanks. For those in that geral area you may find yourself wanting to drive possibly i95. Southbound bw parkway diverting on the outer loop of the beltway. Ride up ride the ramps because the ramp on the southbound side is open. The outer loop of the beltway so go th on the bw parkway remains closed. Northbound bw parkway completely unaffected. Only other delay big so far this morning is alexandria youll find work between eisenhower avenue and van dorn street. Lready. Usy morning lets check on your forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Afternoon highs all three made it above 90 degrees. That was three in a row at naisional. Today number four. 68 currently at Dulles Airport and66 in Montgomery County. 69 prince georges county. Wakeup weather by 7 00, once the sun is up. Its up before 6 00. Temperatures in the mid70s and kly into the 80s especially around do you want. We willbe above 80 degrees before new mexi 9 00 a. M. Todays high 93. Northwest breeze for today. Hot, not terribly humid. More than yesterdabut youll notice the humidity as we get into friday. That added humidity will lead to slightly increasing chances for rain as we get into the weekend. Show you future weather and fiveday forecast is cing up. The first ten Democratic Candidates turned up the heat last night in miami. Two hours of plans, promises and policy kicked off the first major test of decision 2020. And it was only round one. Ten more candidates make their cases as they try to burn the white house blue. Covering ilchrist is the debates for us in south florida and working for you with highlights from the spin zone. Reporter we saw very fiery first debate r the democrats here. I talked to the head of the dnc tom perez. He sa d we saw last nigh exactly what he would expect, a Heated Exchange between folks who are friendly, who are friends and, yet, an oprtunity forthem to really have a discussion about ideas and to see which ideas would rise to p. The to one of the highlights, i think, of the evening was the conversation around immigration in particular. I think news of the day influenced some of the conversation aroundimmigration. You may remember yesterday, we saw the image, that photo of the father and y hisoung daughter who died trying to cross the river into the United States. Lingten to some of the excha that was had last night among e some of thcandidates on the stage. That, number one, we end the ice policies and custom and border policies violating the human rights. The way we used to treat this when somebody across the border not to criminalize desperation, to treat that as a civil violation. For all of the american citizens out there who feel youre falling behind and feel the American Dream is not working for you, the immigrants didnt do that to you. You should expect immigration a Big Conversation tonight. Ten new candidates taking the stage and joe bidennd Bernie Sanders at the center of thege and they will be trying to make their mark. Aaron gilchrist, news4 a lot of talk last niurt about thee of your health care, how much you need and who will pay for i m in about 30utes, we will show you how the candidates art d to set themselves from one another on one of the biggest issues our country faes. Social media was buzzing about the debate as well, especially the moments when the isndidates answered immigration questions in sp twitter also went wild when the moderators asked Elizabeth Warren if she had a plan to deal with Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Warrens reply, i do was a big hit. Hedio problems plagued tart of the second hour so that was a topic of discussion. President trump watched the debate on air force one on h way to japan for the g20 summit. He tweeted his initial reacting, saying, quot boring, on the candidates on the stage were asked about the crisis at the southern border involving migrant children. Our coverage does aat end here. Ron will continue working for you with live reports from miami and you can watch the secon debate tonight at 9 00 right here on news4. Its 5 05 now. A heartbroken motherlks about the loss of her daughter after a deadly crash on thbw parkway this week. 27yearold Brittany Burks was sitting in her suv when a car slammed into her and kill her at the scene. Burks wasni a howard ursity student and studying to be a dentist. Her family speaks about her as a person with ago spirit. I told her all the time, mom, something going to happen. We just devastatemy own child. Police say Darnell Bassett hits burks. He w on the run from police on monday night when he rearended her vehicle. Bassett is in jail. This morning, a School Community is mourning the loss of a special educator who had a special connection to his students. Jonathan kite was the assistant principal at breyer woods high in ashburn and one of two people who died a headon crash in page county after leaving woron monday. He was known for his hard work and his ability to have fun and his crazy socks. School leaders say he was a ta rising sr in Loudoun County schools. T to say is a shock is a huge understatement. He is so extraordinary and just brought love, which is really the only thing that matters and everybody felt that from him. Ee kite hadwith Loudoun County schools since 2011. Administrators and staff were talking about what they can do to honor his legacy when students return in the fall. Now to some incredible video youll only see on news4. A scooter rider lucky to be alive after a collision with a car. The scooter rider went into the path of a car and flipped over the hood and on to the pavement there. That car was turning into a private parking lot woodmont avenue in bethesda. The rider was a woman. R she wasushed to the hospital. Police say bawdo many scooter riders dont wear is lucky she wasnt killed. Re Supreme Court will ase final decisions before a long summer break including a decision on a high ile gerrymandering case. This involves a district that stretches from Montgomery County to western maryland. Judges said Democratic State officials unconstitutionally e drew thstricts boundaries with a goal of public influence. The democratic attorney general appealed that to the court in december. The court will have major implications how map makers can go so far in pursuit a political damage. The board is expecs d to addresthe scandal of jack evans for the first time in open session today. Mean ile, evans wants the public to keep an open min hand wait foris side of the story. News4 Mark Segraves asked if he he was being treated fairly and he quoted a phrase from the godfather movie. This is the profession ive chosen so whether its fair or , who knows but i want an opportunity to be able to address some of the concerns that people have raised. Evans is expected to make a statement at todays meeting. He says he planto resign from the board after its ethics investigation. He does remain d. C. Councilmember. Cycling season is going on now. Justin finch is live in kensington where people are gearing up for cycling in the circle. Ll me what this is all about. Reporter hey there. Good morning out there. I want to tell you this. We are live here at wrner circle park. Behind me one of the major draws that i likely for that cycling in the circle even. That isub called a p track there. Take you to video so you can see it in action. It has ups and downs and pretty tight turns. The kind of track youll want to be safe on and, again, safety will be a major theme here for that cycling in the circle event. Helmet safety sometimes knee pad, elbow safety as well. Lets come back out herelive. Other big safety tips they will be sharing such as your children with their bikes in traffic on the roadway, what to know and how to be safe are among the few topics here that will be diomussed and much moreg up when we see you later on news4 today. Live here in kensington, justin back inside to you. Thank you, justin. Next on news4 today, video you will not believe. We dont to show you quite yet to give away the shock. But the story will make your jaw drop. We are working for your money this morning. Are you paying too much for ch icken . There is a new investigation into allegations Poultry Companies are ripping you off. Plus, which fast foo restaurant to your kids ask to visit the most . Think about it in the break and we will tell you how your choice stacks up to other families. Time to start thinking about ea fern shoreday and saturday and sunday, very good beach weather. Ocean water above 70 degrees. That is nice. Temperatures mid80s on friday and 90s owe coastline and even on saturday before afternoon Storm Chances increase a bit on sunday. Our good morning. Baltimorewashington parkway southbound a live look. You can see all traffic diverts on the outer loop of the beltway. Serious accident investigation ongo g. Outer loop to the baltimorewashington parkway is closed but inner loop you can go south on the bw parkway and northbound travel unaffected at this particular time. Jack, thank you. We are working for you this morniut with details abo a federal investigation into that could be impacting your familys food budget. The department of justice is investigating allegations that the top chicken producers e loring production, and sharing data. The allegation datd back to 2008 involve more than a Dozen Companies including tyson, pilgrims farms. Ansanders and those comps are denying those allegartons. Staing next week, restaurants in d. C. Could be fined hundre of dollars for giving you a plastic straw. Dcs reports the grace period for switching to more environmental friendlstraws is ending. Starting on july 1st, d. C. sde rtment of energy and environment will start issuing fines. Restaurants are required keep ome Plastic Straws on hand f customers with disabilities. This morning, we are working for your money. New Research Shows its becoming harder to afford a home in the United States despite a booming economy. According to data solutions, the average person with not pay for meum priced homes the market which costs about 25es,000. The rarch found that price to be less affordable than the historic average. K chicla, youre the winner. Americas favorite restaurant. That is the word from nearly 23,000 customers who filled out a survey by the American Customer Satisfaction index. Chickfila scored 86 out of 100 . Second place to panera bread. Ong the burger chains, mcdonalds came in last place. No im t surprised by that. They hang been struggli bit. The waffle fies at chickfila. I likethat Fried Chicken andwich. Eople try to do grilled chicken. If youre going there, go all the wa two incredible pieces of video. A car smashed through glass hitting a group of people inside a florida business. One person was trapped underneath the car but expected to baokay. Ther was pinned to the car. All of them are expected to be okay. The driver told investigators she meant to hit the brake but pressed the gas pedal instead. Police say she will not face any charges. This terrifying momec caught on amera. A teenag was able to catch that toddler who fell from a second floor window in tuey. The 2yearold girl survived without any injuries. Local media says the toddler approached the open window of the apartment while her mother was cooking. So grateful for the young men there. Hank god he was in that exact locationnd looking up to see the toddler was falling out of the window. Luck counts. Its a miracle she is alive. Hello chuck bell. 9again. Keep it going. Its summertime this is it you know . Our average high is up to 87 degrees. Five degrees warmer than aver as statistically our hottest time of the year is still just ahead of us here the last two wks of july. Statistically are the hottest time of the year. But we notched another 90 into the book yesterday so that is ten so far in 2019. With our continuation of above weather expected to continue through the end of the month we will have 14, 90degree days by the ends of june. Yesterday ten by the end of ju and 11 in 2017 and five in 2016. Behind two other years. 19 days in the 90s befde the en of june in 2015 and 21 such days back in 2010. 201 is the record holder for how many 90degree days have we ever had in a year that was 67 days above 90 in 2010. On i d think we will break that record but stack up the 90degree days the next couple of weeks. 66 in springfield, virginia and 77 now in washington. Your planner for today is all sunshine and hot. 93 expected high today. Omeven hotterrow at 95. One difference a higher chance for a cooling rain shower tomorrow as this little ripple in the atmosphere moves in oure ge direction. Rain chances are low, low, low, for today and for tomorrow. But at least theres a chance. Any little opportunity for a cooling rain shower today is really well southstand we of the d. C. Metro area down towards charlottesville so if youre traveling that way you have a better chance of a thunderstorm today. Out west of the blue ridge also. Tomorrow, future weather on your friday. A dry start. A little better chance of asc tered thunderstorm or two tomorrow afternoon. Rain chances under 20 today and tomorrow. Higupr chance on sat o 30 . Ahead of that front the humidity build friday and saturday. Ly not onid90s for temperature but heat indexes close to a hundred degrees. The weather front is expected to arrive late in the day on sunday. That will maximize rain chances but its a relatively dry front so still not a guarantee for rain on sunday. If we are going to have one day next 10 to 14 days below 90 degrees,t is monday. Now time for traffic with jack taylor. Big story, unfortunately bw parkway southbound. All lanes closed from investigation of hit and run over the beltway. Southbnd bw parkway detours on to the outer loop. Outer loop of the beltway ramp to go south on the bw parkway also closed with thet acciden investigation. Unaffected inner loop out of college park the ramp to go south on the bverts youre fipw fine. On the inner loop of the beltway maryland from river road heading to legion bridge toward river road, sounds like a tractortrailer may be involved in an issue, potentially a spill. Right side of the roadway is tied up and a lot of equipment on the scene but the beltway is green so volume still light and not caus a big slowdown. Back up to. Us b day for first 4 traffic. Thnk you, jack. Next on news4 today, a boy fighting a rare disease refuses to let it stop him from living his dream. Stay with us for this. We will take you out to jointba andrews and introduce you to the militarys newest pilot. What we can do is replay the bad memories with all of the good memories. This afternoon llen welcome welcome welcomes we are sisters. And we just moved in together. Why alissa and aleah chose fios. We stream sooo much. A lot of times alissa is watcng tv on her laptop, using her phone, also using her tabl. I am really good at multitasking cause im awesome. A little. The best internet is even better at our best price. Switch now and get our faste speeds available. Plus, a free Samsung Chromebook on us. Thats fios. Welcome back. Rn this mog, a 13yearold is ying on cloud nine. Yesterday, he received a very special honor. He became a pilot for the day ndrews. T base news4 drew wilder was there to see him sworn in. R eporter inside joint base andrews, a boy lives out his dream. Swearing in 13yearold oryan jolly off to be a pilot for the day. Ir fst, a little training in the same simulator the air force trains with. Good. See how excited he is . Awesome. Reporter a few years ago, oryan developed a rare and terminal mital chondrial brain disease. We cant wait to see my child smile and sorry. Be able to do this, you know . Op because pele dont realize what you have when you have it and wdont. Reporter which is why the nonprofit check six and colonel robert balzona selected oryan for the pilot for a day program at andrews. We cant change what is happening with him and what the outcome is, but we can replace all of the bad memories with alo of the memories. Might help you. Reporter see th . E bracelets oryan makes those and sells th and donates the money to the Childrens Hospital specifically to Fund Research for his disease. I make them and i fl hope around the world. Reporter he will only be a Brigadier General for one day, but his service will ch countless lives forever. Ange on joint base widrews, drew lder, news4. Our coverage of last nights debate continres. We aooking at the how the candidates responded to questions over heal care. Chuck, how hot . Back in the 90s today wity air qualit the poor range. Limit have heart or respiratora this is fred. Hes dancing like nobodys watching. And because all of the devices on freds wifi network are protected with xfinity xfi, literally, nobodys watching. Except for millions of you, of course. Wait, millions of people are watching . Yeah. Were making a commercial. Ifts connected, its protected, with xfinity xfi. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Get started with xfinity for 79. 99 a month for 2 yrs. Plus, add xfi advantage for enhanced network security. Click, call or visit a store today. Breaking news. A portion of the bw parkway is shut down following a deadly hit and run. Good morning, everyon. Im euyang. Im i molet green for aaron this morning. Pe this is hapning on green belt road in the southbound lanes. Lets go to news4 today Megan Mcgrath who is life near the scene. What can you tell us now . At this point, in the rush hour, we basically have a standstill situation. We are looking down on the southbound lanes of the baltimorewashington parkway and up on t 193 erpass. You can see traffic not moving at all. There is the detour just i ahead there. An all l of the southbound side of the bw parkway are closed. They are detouring traffic on th northbound side of the beltway. Thats as far as youre able to. Go this morni this is all because of a deadly hit and run accident that happened early this morning. You can see the emergency crews that are still on the scene. They are still documenting this accident