Ild wind and rain hitt g our region hard yesterday. This video from a parking lot in leesburg. Homeowners from around the region haveleaning up to do today. News4 justin finch joins us live from yuma street where the storm caused serious damage. What are you seeing . Reporter thats right. H first ting you notice here at 4 30 is how dark it is at yuma northwest. Hey are working restore power to several customers in this area. Take a loi beh me here. Working under way is right now on what was a l veryrge tree that came down in yesterdays storms. Crews having to frst get the tree down to work on the wires that came down with it during thest storm yeday. Take you to owdeo right from late in the afternoon. Close to 6 00 p. M. , neighbors tell us the storm was really being down on this area and eventually they heard the snap, crackle, and collapse of those big branches to that tree there. That also took down some wires. Also, too, setting off small fires, until the yard of that home where the branches fell. D. C. Firefighters arrived to the scene and able to put out that small e. D. C. Fire also warning all of us with the potential for more storms to come. There is a greater risk for falling trees and moredo ed wires. Any wires down are live, even if they dont appear to be, you dont know if they are going to reenergize. You dont know what is going to happen to them. Reporter you definitely want to make sure if you see downed wires assume they re live and call your power utility crew or as well as police to make sure that area is safe. You can see,n, agai really a lot of work to do. That was a very large tree that had to come down and be picked up. Pepco restored those lines. We are told their early target raner is to have pow here restored by perhaps 7 00 a. M. So the window is shrinking. Perhaps they will make it and perhaps go over so keep that in mind too. If u drive in this area know you willind congestion here. Thstin finch, news4. Along wihe storms, the heat is proving to be deadly as well. Extre heat blamed for four deanhs in mar the most recent happened this week in Prince Georges County and earlier tis month one person died in Baltimore City and onene in an arundel county because of te heat. If you dont have airconditioning in your home most d. C. Area have opened communities centers and Recreation Centers when temperates reach 90 degrees. You can findor inftion with cooling centers by opening your nbc washington app. A third resident at the Greenspring Retirement Community in springfield has died. Megan mcgrath is live at Greenspring Retirement Community in springfield with more. Reporter good morning. We have new information today following an update from healto official ab the situation. A third death has happened at the greenspring retirement h communityere in springfield and we have learned that 60 from nts have gotten hi this respiratory infection. Health official are still trying pinpoint the exact cause. The three residents who did die, they are elderly and Health Official say they have other complicated medical conditions so Health Official dont know yet the extent which the respiratory illness, what is connected to their deaths. Official say that they are also dealing with reports of a respiratory illness outbreak at another assisted living facility. That one in burke, virginia. 25 people are sick at that facity but no deaths have been reported. Health official say at this point, there is no connection and seen no evidence of a connection between the two outbreaks but the outbreaks are striking because they are happening in the summertime when normally its the winter where we see the spread of flu and illnesses. Y more will be coming up later in the show. See you then. Thank you. Mo this ing, only on news4, a look at some of the evidence prosecutors used to put james fields jr. Behind bars for life. Earlier this week, seavowed ite supremacist was sentenced for many ramming his car into a crowd at charlotteille in 2017. The feed broadcast on periscope with the chaos and fields barreling down the street. In that incident, he killed heather heyer. Th the state police captured a birdseye view orampage from above. Prosecutors also released prison recordings of fields talking with his mom about heyers mother and he advocacy work since that deadly attack. Fields was sentced to two life sentences, plus 419 years for that deadly attack in charlottesville. A vocal and supportive crowd chant send her back at president rumps rally in North Carolina. This is the first time e president spoke to reportersco since the gressional reprimand for racist remarks about four democratic congresswomen. The president tweeted the four should go back to their countries and all are americaze citi. Here is ilhan omars response. Qu ote. In com up in our next half hour, tracie potts will let us know about the failed effort to start impeachment proceedings against he president. 5 07. Youll likely also be hearing about this next story today. A new york federal judg shas releasedearch warrants tied to finance campaign ties by President Trumps former lawyer michael cohen. Jummy olabanji is in the newsroom with more on this. Reporter the judge called this a matter of national importance. The fbi raided Michael Cohens office andis h hotel suite last year lookingvi for ence of bank fraud and hush money payments. Cohen is currently serving a threeyear prison sentence along with the crimes of breaking Campaign Finance laws, after hiding hush money payments to two women, Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal. The judges order calls for redacted documents. The judge saying now that the investigation into the governments violations has concluded, it is time for every american has the opportunity to scrutinize the materials. Back to you. What is the white house saying about all of this . The president s current personal Attorney Says they are pleased the investigation is closed and maintains that President Trump never engaged in any sort of Campaign Finance violations. The documents released at 11 00 this morning for the public to read. Back to u. Jummy olabanji, thank you. School resources offices officers started an investigation that pu one man in jail on child abuse charges. Jean corelius was arrested this week. A student told a counselor about him burning them with an iron. He was is being heldithout ges. On cruelty ch a d. C. Fire Department Search dog is resting comfortably this morning after an injury on thjob. A piece of metal nicked an ar ry in kylies leg while she was conducting a search earlier this week. They airlifted her from the scene a flew her to friendship Animal Hospital here in d. C. Three sur to be okay. Is going the latest facebook raid that could put your privacy at risk. You probably have seen theseg picturesng around showing your friends looking a lot older. There is a flip side to the fun. We will explain what is really e happening to you share. Virginia beach takes the top spot on a new national list. Chuck . Time to start thinking about the weekend. It will be blistering hot around here. How about a trip to the ocean . Just know the Eastern Shore is not a whole lot cooler. Temperatures in the mid90s at the beaches this weekend. At index could be over a hundred degrees so if youre heading to the beach know youll heading to the beach know youll be sweating there not all water is created equal. Only 1 billionth of 1 is filtered naturally. And emerges crisp and refreshing enough to bcalled deer park 100 Natural Spring water. Born better® we like drip coffee, layovers and waiting on hold. We like drip coffee, layovers 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 can schedule a callback or reschedule an appointment, even on nights and weekends. Todays xfinity service. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Id rather not. Welcome back. Temperatures climb this high, you know your airconditioning bill is crazy, right . I dont think mine has turned off yet. It will be doubled think this month. Folks know how to manage the bill better. Little things can add up t a lot over a stretch after coupled like this. Rather than just have your ac crank it out and churn up your energy bill all at once, there are things you can do so save some money. Number ne. Set your thermostat to 78 degrees. I know that sounds miserably warm but compared to 10 or 110 heat index outside, id be shocked how cool 78 could feel, especially if you run it that warm during the day time. When the ac is on do your best to keep the outside doors and windows closed and with that afternoon sun starts pouring through the window close your blind and curtain to ke the extra solar out a. Arn off and unplug any lighting device andliances youre not using. Even plugged in it uses electricity and things like your drier and oven or dshwasher do the best you can to run those appliances at night when its cooler. Little harder to r theen at night but dishwasher and Clothes Dryer for sure. Use the ceiling fans and make sure yr deduct and fans are furniture. D by those can add up and especially ceiling fans. Having that little breeze on you while youre trying to sleep u make a h difference. Every time you set that thermostat to 78 during the day time hours from 9 00 to 6 00 it takes about 5to a day save. We are home at that hour. Honestly your programmable thermostat will pay for itself e in no t all. Let it rise up to 78 during the day and then have it stao cong back down at 5 00 or 6 00 at night. Makes good sense. What i do at my place and it saves money. Thank you, chuck. You know traffic on 95 can be miserablhe t worse. A new study found the worst spot on the entire interstate is in virginia. Traffic jammed over the river is worse than any other spot according to the i95 Improvement Project. People spend 1. 2 million hours a year in delays on that onemile southbound stretch imagine all of that time lost in your life i95 Improvement Project plans to hold a Community Meeting this week to address this issue. Among the proposed solution is adding weekend vre trains or shoulder lanes that could open during crashes oraj m delays. It doesnt even have to be a crash. Nothing is going on youre just tting there. Turning to social media craze called faceup. This app with the image has taken social media by storm. Its fun but what are the security risks . Jummy olabanji is work with those details for you. Reporter you can see behind me a fewit of the celebrs have all been trying out this app showing it on simpocial media showing them with wrinkles and saggy skin and it is an app from russia. 100 million downloads already. You take a picture of yourselft and upload ito the app to see what youll look like in the future. Security experts are cautioning while this might seem like innocent fun it could pose a serious privacy risk. What were doing is posting our photos to apps like this is creating a Surveillance Technology industry that is gonsg to be worth billiof dollars and will always know what you look like. They say they only uplo the photo you select for the cloud and does not upload any other o cameras fryour camera roll is what they are saying. They say your photo is deleted om their Service Within 48 hours. Open your app, go to report above and put in the word privacy in the subject line but why dol that have . I was going to say. We have tips how to him how the app would ben your phone so search face app in our nbc washington app. Its bad enough facebook recognizes our ces. I dont want to see myself looking old. Thank you. This morning a popular vacation spot is Getting National attention from our v. Region. Virginia beach is the best big city to live in according to a wallet hub study for more than 300,000 people. Virginia beach has the lowest number of peoplvliving in poty and the lowest crime rate. Its time to check in with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. News. Od only 93 degrees today that is the coolest of the next couple of days. Friday, saturday, sunday, promise to be pr ably some of the hottest weather we have had around here in quite sometime. May end up hopefully it will end up being the hottest period of the year. Maybe get a little break and not worry about this heat into the month of august. Wi we see. For now your thursday morning, plenty of cloud around early. Temperatures have stayed mild overnight because of all the clouds and the humidity that is in place. There are a couple raindrops oue thei81 this morning. 79 degrees in washington. Wind out of the south and out of ll day th and southwest and continue to bring up more heat and humidity and that will cook us in the next few days. Most of us are in the mid to per 70s here early this morning. Your planner for today high temperatures in the low 90s today but a 60 chance of thunderstorms today. There is an excessive heat watch for friday and saturday. Likely to be extended into sunday. Overnight lows struggling to get under 80. Afternoon highs near 100 heat index near 1010 friday and saturday and probably sunday as well. Future weather fast. This is the forecast heat index for 6 00 friday afternoon. So tomorrow afternoon just as youre getting out of work, start the weekend. Heat indexes between 103 and 108 all across the region. Dangerously hot. There is a list of all the cooling center here and ways toh beat e heat available at nbc washington app. Search heat wave. Find out where you can go to cool off. His and miss raindrops near i81. No thunder or lightning out j therest yet but an opportunity for thunderstorms later on in the day today and we will keep you ahead of that. Lets go to Melissa Mollet to see how traffic is coming along. 270 southbound before father hurd,y boulevar we have construction still hanging around in that right lane that is blocked. You can see those delays headin. Southboun hopefully, that gets out of the way pretty soon and things clear up before the real morning commute kic in in those lanes. W. Ay right no as we zoom out a little bit, just to show you the situation northbound 95 through fredericksburg still slow but clearing out of the way. Finding growth in an unexpected place. We will see you how seed and a lot of waterare helping change the outlook of young people. If youre home this afternoon, dont miss ellen. Pink will be on the show. Stick around for the news at 4 00 after th. At so, lets talk about conference calls. Theres always a certain amount of fumbling. A lot of times it doesnt work. We have problems. Comcast business goes beyond fast. By letting you make and receive calls from any device using your business line. En and confer calls you can join without any dialins or pins. There are currently 3 members in this conference. I like that. I like that too. N i would use that iheartbeat. Comcast business has the solutions you need get started for just 39. 95 per month. Call 18005016000 today. Welcome back. Imagine growing up in food desertc without easy acess to fresh fruits and vegetables. That is the reality for far too many d. C. Kids east of the anacostia river. Maya is helping to change that by training students in urban farm. O how does that look tyou . Perfect. Its growing. At first thereas no roots. Now see the roots growing. Reporter darian summers is earning his ged at this Adult Learning center and two weeks into his internship at the School Greenhouse growing butterhead lettuce and fresh collard greens. It ive done my grandmother before. A new way to garden so i wanted to learn. Reporter its a little more than simple gardening. The farming operation here is all recycled water. Crushed down into a gutter and back there and cleaned and bumped back up through here so we use 90 less water than traditional farming but we use no dirt at all. He reporter tater is chuck full of nutrients and they are able to grow produce yearround. 36 days fromakes seedtoharvest and half the time of traditional farming. We also teach them working skills. How to be on time to work and how to dress for a job and what you need to do to keep a job once you get here. Reporter that is only part of the maya Schools Mission says robert simmons. Our young people are intellectuals and critical scholars in this world who have been pushed out of other schools and marginalized by society. Our goal is not to question why they are here. Our role and our goal as a organization is to support them right where they are at. Reporter the alternative school educates, but also provides clinical counseling and other Developmental Service to hto care for the whole child. They discovered for themselves that this school und their commy is a food desert and they are like, oh, my god. What do i e o . Becauscan learn, like, how to grow plants and give food back to the community and anything. A lot of work and progress going on there. Abe building ha sold to a popular spot. Coming up what will happen today to give us a better idea what will happen to it. A culturalmain sdstay for the d. Region. We have our tenth baby girl die in a hotgirl earlier this week. Never leave any person or animal en an unattended car afternoon teratures near 95 and means after 30 minutes its almost 130 degrees inside that car. Justitdont do a check of the forecast. Stifling and unbearable is two word to descrie heat wave in the d. C. Region is dealing with right now. Its 5 30. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Another word you can use is weather and we are in alert mode this morning and Melissa Mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. Lets start with storm team 4 chuck bell and a look at the forecast. More heat and humidity today. An opportunity to cool off by n in r nature this aftern the storm of afternoon storms. Just like yesterday,th some of se storms could pose a risk in the way of severe wind weather with gusty wind. Yesterday the temperaturepp dro 15 degrees in just five minutes when those storms