And how claude monet would paint the sunrise. On the whole, a beautiful morning. Ndenty of humidity still lingering around that will lead to a little chance for a stray shower later today but no Severe Weather. Nmore informatio on Tropical Storm barry and the wide ranging impact that storm will have on the gulf coast the course of the whtkend. Rignow leesburg, good morning. 63 degrees. 71 now in clinton, maryland. Your planner, four thing to know about today. Hot and humid. Upper 80s to near 90 today and 90s over theeekend but much lorraine chances. Ill show you your future weather to time out what little opportunity is there for rain our friday coming up. Jack taylor, good morning. Good morning, chuck. Slow traffic in the dtrict off 295 inbound from the 11th street bridge. First a crash on the third nd that cleared and then a broken down vehicle on the ride of the roadway that also cleared. Now all travel lanes are open but delays hopefully will begin to e. Canal road still closed between recess voir arv rer and foxhall. The road is e. Canal road stilclosed between reservoir and foxhall. The road is compromiseae. Canal road still closed between reservoir and foxhall. The road is compromisese. Canal road still closed between reservoir and foxhall. The road is compromised. New incident on the beltway on pennsylvania avenue with ang vehicle facihe wrong direction. Right lane is blocked and authorities are there. Another strong storm system swept through the area yesterday bringing heavy rain and some isolated thunderstorms. After a tree cshed through one chevy chase mans home, he says he is lucky to be alive. Michael zilinger was sitting on his couch when a tree fell through the roof. Power lines were also brought down in the area. I looked up and there were branches coming through and i was shocked. He is now working with his Insurance Company to see what is covered. Residents in louisiana are a prering for the worst as Tropical Storm barry moves to the gulf and the storm is gaining strength as it is inching closer to the coast. Tropical storm barry set to land aromorrow and evacuations e under way right now. New orleans is still drying out from more than 9 inches of rain this week,hich means the Mississippi River is higher thaa norl. Barry could lift the river to its highest level in nearly 70 years. 10 to 15 inches of rain are possible and if barry turns into a hurricane, that storm will make history. This will be the first time that we have had a hurricane make landfall in louisiana while the Mississippi River was at flood stage. President trump has approved an Emergency Declaration for louisiana ahead of the storm. That will put important federal resources in place for disasteri re. Police are investigating a suspected rape on aro m platform. News4 justin finch is live at the cheverally station and how authorities were able to track him down. It turns out the key to tracking this station at cameras that were rolling at this station and suspect in the case got on a red line train and tried to maken escapebut he did not get far. Looking at your screen that is him alabama taddesse who went one stop over into d. C. Where he exited and later taken into y custod this was minutes after Metro Transit Police say that he xually assaulted a moment at a platform here at cheverly in yesterday afternoon in broad daylight. You might wonder why no one else stopped to hlp or sawny aing. It turn out official say no other rider were on that platform at the time. The woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation. For abham he is prepared for extradition back to maryland from d. C. Where now being held for a firstdegree rape charge. You have to imagine a lot of rider here at this station for metro are happye to h quick action was taken in this case and an arrest has been made. O back tyou. Thank you, justin. This morning, northwest d. C. Neighborhood on edge after the d third mur in that area this year. Police found 33yearold clifton telfair shot several times on north capital street and m street yesterday afternoon. This is the 85th murder this year in the district. Students at Morgan State University are dealing with the murder of one of their classmates. Manuel luis jr. Was a sophomore business and managemen major from prince georges countand killed near an off campus dorm when he was getting in his car at around 5 00 in the mornid. We are tolo suspects were trying to rob him and police say luis was trying to leave early yesterday morning to get to his parents home in hyattsvils e whn he walled. E search for the two suspects is still ongoing. Br update to a story we ought you as breaking new yesterday. Police are working to identify who men who were killed by an suv while on a park bench in downtown. C. Police say one of the men were homeless. They believe they were sleeping on bench when the suv crashed into them off monroe park on pennsylvania avenue. The driver of the suv was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Wpolice have not decidedther to file charges depends that driver. A maryland judge has delayed the trial of sean urbanski. He is accused of killing a man in 2017. Court record show the delay was granted so the defense could investigate prosecution evidence. This is the fourth time that trial has been delayed. Developing right now. R. Kelly has once again been arrested in chicago. Ac he is fg new charges on sexual abuse. This time, agents with home snd securityurity and nypd were the one taking him in to custody. The arrest is five months after he was released on bail for additional sexual abuse charges. The latest include child pornography and obstruction of justice. S rther details on the case expected to be announced later today when he appears in federal court in new york. Doug wilder kissed a College Student without her consent according to the results of the new investigation. That cleared three allegations the student made including sex exploitation and retaliation. He teaches at vru and the student worked with him. He was the nations first elected black govern and has until next week to contest the investigations ndings. President trump says he is backing off his effort to include a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. Instead, the president says the government will collect that information in a different way. The president is taktig exe action to direct every federal department and agency to make that formation available to the Commerce Department. Its a new effort to get an account of how many citizens and noncitizens are currently in the country. Its a move that could still play a role in political redistricting. We will collect all of the information we need to conduct an accurate census and to make responsible decisions about public policy, voting rights, and representation in congress. This comes two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled the Trump Administration couldnt include the question on the 2020 census. Opponents havargued that including the question could make immigrants afaid to respond, which could lead to a miscount. Democrats call immigration raids planned this weekend a tactic aimed at stoking fear. Two Homeland Security officials tell nbc news that ice is ready to carry out those raids on sunday. Ds the same raihat President Trump postponed the last three weeks and expected to target ten cie. Ies, including baltimor the d. C. Area is not on that list but the Police Department in Prince Georges County have made it known it is n their job to nforce immigration laws, saying they do not cooperate are icn civil matters. Agroup rallied outside a yesterday. Ty plan to use hotels to detain children who cant be put in Adult Detention Centers and the group is pressuring hotels to publicly promising not to be any such plan. Marriott says he hass no plan to do that and if asked they wouldt decline tha request. We turn to the democratic president ial hopeful race. A new poll shows a crowded pool democratic hopefuls. Here is a look at standings after the first democratic debate. The poll found among voters second choice harris lead followed by warren and sander. 12 of those polled say they upave definitely made their mind. Ahead on news4 today, azon is rolling out great deals for the upcoming prime day but there are plenty of other retailers ready to keep up with deals of their own. Consumer reporter susa hogan has some tips how you can be a big winner on prime day. Find out why these brothers lunged at a man moments before a judge was going to sentence him. Raindrops across West Virginia and ill let you kn ow this morning a Dallas Community is mourning the loss y of a little bfter his remains were found in a landfill. On wednesday, an amber alert was issued after 18monthold cedrip jackson was rorted missing from his home. Yvestigators found his remains in that landfillesterday morning. Police say a boyfriend of the childs aunt confessed that he put the childs body in a dumpster after he stopped breathing. Dramatic courtroom video br shows two others lunging after a man was convicted of murdering their mother. All of this happed in youngstown, ohio, at a sentencing hearing for that killer. The victims sons and their sister were reading a statement when they attacked. Police tased one of the others before putting both men in handcuffs. You can imagine, the sentencing hearing was postponed. Tovestigators are trying figure out what set off a wild explosion that happened in north carolina. This shows the moment a kfc just blew a. Threstaurant was closed at the time. So nobody was inside. Nobody was hurt. The explosion did damage five other business that were nearby. Ford Motor Company is disputing claims it knowingly sold cars with defective transmission, despite warnings from engineers. The dodetroit free press revealed that focus and siesta models are defect parts but they rolled them out any way. Customers complaining the transmission would randomly stall and suddenly accelerate. Ilright now more than 1 mon effected siesta and fus remain on the road. In a statement the Company Acknowledges the problem and stating, quote. If you own an apple watch, it could be eavesdroppinyoon the company says its disabling a feature caused this issue. Apple says a bug in the walkietalkie feature could allow people to use that watch to listen to conversations through another persons iphone. The featureas only been around about a year. Ple says it will remain disabled until they can fix the probl problem. Get the wallets ready. The countdown is on to amazon prime day and workers are busy they are stocked up for twoday sale event. The sale is strictly for the foime member. We are working you to get on the bargains without paying for a membership. Consumer reporter susan hogan has details. Reporter prime day off at 3 00 a. M. This monday. We have four things you need to know right now to make sure you are ready to take advantage of these deals. If youre not a prime member, no problem. Crash the party with a free day trial membership. Just dont forget to cancel the auto renew. Start shopping early. Search the word sneak peek in the app right now to get an early look at some of the sales. If you see somethingou like, click watch this deal. And you will get a notification when the sale goes live. And shop around, you guys. Other retailers are likely to ofdaer deep discounts on mony and tuesday to compete with prime day. And we, of course, will have more tips for you leading up to monday, so be sure to stay tuned ner what you need to know to save the most mo kid sleeping in, munching on junk food and spending way too much time in front of a screen could take a toll on your Childs Health and impact their progress when they return to school. Up next week, we will show you fun and easy ways to prevent summer brain drain. Moms across the country are here in d. C. Demanding lawmakers take action on climate change. They gathered on the mall on thursday for an event called play in for climate change. The group is urging congress and the president ial candidates to at that time Climate Crisis seriously. Their goal is 100 clean energy by the year 2050. As somebody who has a voice to raise, im here today to ask and demand and beg our leaders to take the decisions that matter to save our planet. After the rally, some of the moms met with their representatives in congress to continue the conversation. Good weekend to athat time d out to the pool and enjoy the sun. Dont fergusheorget t spf. 50 or higher is rcommended because the sun angle this time of the year will cook you in malts ofm utes. High uv index for both saturday and sunday means burn time could be 20 minutes or less. Cover yourself up in spf. Tropical storm barry off the louisiana coastli here. The hurricane center, the official forecast brings this storm as a category 1 hurricane on shore probably during the day on saturday and probably late tomorrow. O noon time whether it becomes a category 1 hurricane or is not is irrelevant in the fact what have it has the potential to doo the louisiana gulf coast. There is a lot of offshore drilling rigs here and they have to suspend that and that couldu cagas prices to go up. The Mississippi River is at or above flood stage more than a thousand miles north of new orleans formonths. So now we have a tropical landfall tropical system on top of a swollen Mississippi River valley with a potential for 15 to 20 inches of additional rain, all across parts of louisiana. If youek had wend travel plans to go to new orleans, perhaps even over toward the coast of mississippi as far west of houston you may reconsider and especially if your travel plans are down to l. I would recommend you cancel those plans now and give them a chance to get all of this storm dealt with over the next coupled. Around here fortoday, improving weather picture. Thick fog. Down from about warrenton and culper and Spotsylvania County for watch out for thick fog. In the Washington Area sunshine has returned on a friday g. Mornin 72 in d. C. And 68 panhandle of West Virginia. Fo your planner friday. Look at the sunshine hot and humid today. Highs in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees. A very small, but not zero, percent chance of rain as a little change in air mace comes through here and most of the light rain is out mountains of West Virginia. Walk you through future weather. Rain chances are low, low, low, butmp not cotely zero between about 3 00 and 7 00, there might be an isolated little popup shower or two. No Severe Weather to worry about today. Just a quick little rain chance. Thats it. Beach weather is coming up. Now jack taylor in the radio room. A beach would be nice. Focus on the now. Canal road still blocked betweee ervoir and foxhall from mondays storms. With nice weather crew can do a lot of work so they need the sunshine. Backo you. Jack, thank you. Wine tasting to v. And cookouts in maryland and latece day independay celebration. Tommy mcfly will have a ahead. Ellen at 3 00 this afternoon and followed by your news 4 00. Were the slowskys. We like drip coffee, layovers and waiting on hold. What we dont like is relying on fancy technology for help. Snail mail we were invited to a y2k party. Uh, didnt that happen, like, 20 years ago . Oh, look, karolyn, weve got a mathematician on our hands check it out now you caschedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, ndeven on nights and weeke todays xfinity service. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Id rather not. Welcome back. 6 24. You might plan t on a few pounds this weekend. Food festivals abound all over the d. C. Region. News4 today tommy mcfly hilights what isappening this weekend. Im tommy mcfly with your weekend scene. Thousands of wine lovers will be head to go virginia this weekend fo the food and wine festival. 30 vendors and three craft brewers and continuous music and arrtay of art exhibits and a demonstrations. Come on out and enjoy the fun. Reporter tmo ticket corates the 50th anniversary of a love for tourism campaign. Across the bay bridge on the island is a crab festival. All benefits to a local Fire Department there. D you can all you can eat crabs if you dare or a la carte menu to enjoy also. Maryland summer on the water . What is better tn that . Speaking of on the water. Its the lily festival in anacostia park. Saturday and sunday, you can giget up and close to the full bloom. This festival is not only about he flowers, but a full roster of music, entertainment, arts, crafts, and plenty of instagram opportunities. And just when you thought the fireworks were over, alexandria to the rescue, everyone. They are celebrating on saturday, independence day, the 243rd birthday of america, but the 270th birthday of alexandria. Going to have a tn crier to celebrate the festivities and cake for everybody and fireworks go off with a symphony behind them starting around 9 30. If you want to check out more events and activities this weekend and beyond, then search the scene on the nbc washington app. Im tommy mcfly, news4 today. Still ahead, own a piece of apollo 11 history. We will tell you how. After a week putting them to use, metro puts an end to Automatic Door technology. We will tell you why. Chuck . This is cute bo available for adoption. Go to humane dog resclliance to find out how to adopt bo or any other dog you good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Imummy olabanji in for eun yang who hat day off. Lets start with your forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. Sun is up already. Sky isdy partly clou to mostly cloudy. There are areas of fog out Central Virginia this morning but on the whole a nice way to start your friday. 60s and 68 in front royal. 68 degrees in columbia, maryland. Your commuter forecast. Most of us wont need to worry about it but a tiny opportunity a chance of rain. Start off 70 andnd up 90 this afternoon. Car washing forecast for today . Honestly,