Bottom of the beltway through Prince Georges County into town and out of town just fine. 95 in maryland. Bw parkway and all of those routes looking god in and out of town as well. Wild wind and rain hitting our area yesterday. Leesburg has cleaning up to do today. So many people are without power this morning. The largest number are in Fairfax County. 3600 people there are waking up without electricity. News4 today justin finch joins us live now from northwest d. C. On yuma w streetre the storm caused some bad damage. Justin . Seeing some progress since we saw youlast. A tree behind us here is sufficiently broken down and left of those large limbs gone so the pepco crewson can ctinue their work. The limbs attached to that large tree not only took down wires p but twer around here too. Neighbors tell us close to 6 00 or 7 00 yesterday afternoon when the storm was bearing down, they heard the branches of that tree bin to break and collapse into the wires taking them down with them. That also led they say to a small fire in that neighbors yard at yuma street in northwest. D. C. Fir wighterse called to the scene and able to knock the fire out. They warn as well with the potential for more heavy storms to come we could see more hazards like that. Any wires down are live even if they dont appear to be. Okay . You dont know t wheny will reenergize or what is going to happen to them. Reporter youcan see that tree mostly broken down. Pepco crews with continuing to work and hoping to get power that was out to several dozen customers by 7 00 a. M. I look around right here, im seeing lights on that were not on befoch as that home there. So maybe the lights are trickling on before 7 00 a. M. That is their target. If youre in this area, you will see a road closure here. Justin finch, thank you. Along with the storms the heat is proving to bedeadly. Extreme heat is now blamed for four deaths in maryland. The two most recent deaths happened this week in Prince Georges County and worcester county. One person died in Baltimore City this week and Anne Arundel County because of the heat. If you donhave airconditioning in your home most communities in the d. C. Area open recreation and Community Centers to the public when thep the republicans 90 degrees. Find information about cooling centers in the area by going to your nbc washington app. Search heat wave. New details this morning about a Northern Virginia retirement communit fighting an outbreak of illness. A third resident at the Greenspring Retirement Community in springfld has died. 63 residents have become sick with an upper respiratory il eness. 19loyees have also reported symptoms. The Retirement Community is working with the cdc which has not yet determinedhether the deaths are related to the illness. A look at some of the evidence precutors use to put james field behind bars for life. Earlier thiseek the selfavowed wyatt supremacist was sentenced for ramming his car into acrowd in charlottesvillein 2017. Prosecutors showed judge this video that counterprotesters recorded. The feed broadcast on periscope captured the peaceful crcanting mahers and chaos as fie barreled down the street. That rampage he killed h 32yearoldeather heyer. Oh, my god. That car just plowed through them. The state police captured a birdseye view of the rampage. They tracked h fields untilwas arrested that day and they released prison recordings of fields talking with his mother since that deadlytaatk. And talking about Heather Heyer. Fields was sentenced to two life sentences, plus 419 years for that deadly attack in charlottesville. A vocal crowd chanted send her back a President Trumps rally in north carolina. This is the first time the president spoke to reporters since the congressional reprimand for racist remarks about four democratic congresswomen. The president twted the four ould go back to their countries and all are american citizens. Ilhan omar responded on twitter with this. Quote. Coming up on the today show more efforts about the failed efforts to start impeachmen poceedings against the president. A new york federal judge has released search warrants tied to finance campaign ties by President Trumps formerelawyer michaohen. Jummy olabanji is in the newsroom with more on this. Reporter the judge called the document to this case a matter of national importance. Youll recall the fbi raided Michael Cohens office and his hotel suite last year looking for evidence of bank fraud and hush money payments. Cohen was arrested and coowvictd and nurrently serving a threeyear prison sentence along with the crimes of breaking ce campaign finaws. Prosecutors say saying he made hush money payments to two women, Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal. The judge saying t isme that every american has an opportunity to scrutinize those matacials. Bk to you. What is the white house saying about all of this, jummy . The president s current strsonal Attorney Says they are pleased the inveigation is closed and maintains that President Trump never engaged in any Campaign Finance violations. Back to you. Thank you. This morning out of Prince William county. School resource officers start an ovestigation that put man in jail on child abuse charges. Stjean correlius was arre this week. A student told a counselor about him burning them with an iron. He was arrested later tat day and is being held without bond. A d. C. Fire deprtment search dog is restin comfortably this morning after an injury on the job. A piece of metal nicked an ry arn kylies leg while she was conducting a search earlier this week. U. S. Park police andn arlingto fire rescue airlifted the dog from the scene and f to a friendship Animal Hospital here in d. C. Three surgeries and a cast later, she is going to be okay. Im glad she is on the mend. Good to see her back on the job. Gooddog. Next on news4 today, the latest facebook craze that could put your privacy at risk. Youve probablyeen the pictures going around showing your friends looking a lot older. There is a flip side tothe fun and we will explain what is happening to the images you share. Chuck, how about this hot at r . Sun shining and cloud and raindrs upacross northern parts of Fairfax County and ty loudoun counnd no thunder or lightning to worry about. That may be different later on today. That is coming up. A look atavow you can se money on the electric bill. Stay with us. Good morning to you. Yeah, we are dropping in the backpacks for kids news4 partnering up with riverdale market community. We want you to come on out. We will talk more about how you can donate and talk welcome back. You know when the temperatures climb as hotas this week it will hit you in the wallet. Chuck bell is here with tips that could help. Every little biter matts this time of the year. Pepco says if you want to save money our energy bill these days here is a couple of things to de to p that out. Set your thermostat to 78 degrees. That sounds warm but when the heat index outside is over a hundred that is will feel by comparison. Its actually kind of comfortable. Also when the ac is on make sure your doors and windows are closed. Common sense. Also when that afternoon sun starts streaming through the window, make sure your curtains and blind are closed to keep the sun and the solar heat out. Y t can alsorn off or unplug any light and device and plins that youre not using during the day because even thoseuse electricity when they are not on. Things that generate hes, you clothes dryer, oven, dishwasher that kind of stuff, as much as cou can run those at night when its ler. Finally have a fan. Everybody needs a fan. Especially a ceiling fan. That is always best. Ke sure your ducts are cleaned out and you want the cool air blowing out into the room ceiling fan and programmable thermostat can make a big difference. Great advice. Thank you. Thnk u, chuck. Traffic on i95 can be a bear. Its really bad out there. A new studyound the worst spot on the entire of the state is in virginia where the highway crosses the river. You know thi aaron. People spend 1. 2 million hours a year in delays. Not surprised. On that boe mile southd stretch. What a ways to waste your time sitting in that traffic. Social media craze is called face app and probably seen it over your social media pages. What are the security . Jummy olabanji is working for you with thoses. Detail good morning. You can take a look behind me and see a few of the celebrities have been tryingut that app and your friend and family probably have as well. These pictures show you with wrinkles and saggy skin and gray hair. The app which was developed in russia is a number one app r ght now for iphones and android. More than 100 million downloads. Talk a picture of yourself and upload it to the app and see what you look like in the re futu. Some Security Experts are cautioning this innocent funpo could serious privacy risks. What we are doing is posting our photos to apps lthis is creating a Surveillance Technology industry that is going to be worth billions of dollars and will always know what you look like. Face app sent u. S. Details say it only upload the photo you se dct ands not upload other photos from your camera roll. And most js aimages are deleted hours after you post the image. We have tips to limit what the app sees our phone and that information we just shared, go to face app in the nbc washington app. Probably best to just leave it alone andbo enjoy every elses pictures. Now im glad i didnt do it. Thank you. It is the middle of summer but before you kw it, school bells will start ringing again. Can you believe we are talking about this . We are working for you helping area kid get ready to head back to class a be prepared. Molette green is live at backpacks for kid collection in Prince Georges County. Reporter good morning to fou. We are outside owhole food in the Riverdale Park community and we are ready to fill up this bin and many other. This year, we are partnering foth whole food at this first kickoff whole market that is generous enough to really start us off in a big way. Carey is going to talk about the partnership and why youre happy to be here. Right. Everybody welcome towhole food market Riverdale Park and we are excited to be partnering with nbc 4 for bapack for kid. One of our core values is to give back to our local community. Reporter youve got a lot youre giving. You got more, right . Not just in this bin. We have notepads and backpacks and partnered with one ofie our sup and generously donating all of this stuff and free breakfast for 234anybody w donates. And donate your backpack or cash and they have the spread et up. New set up. And news4 has goodies, these glasses. We needhose today as the heat goes up. We are getting started. We will will be here until 2 00 this afternoon. Back to you. Great to see the support for chool ho need to get started on the right foot. Thank you. Chuck bell has a look at the weather alert. Chance for more strong thunderstorms later this afternoon. Its a pretty good looking morning outside but they thick. My glasses fogged up the instant i walked outside because it is so humid outside. L a goodoking way to get the day started. If you have Outdoor Activities as soon a them do possible you can. 78 now inasngton with a light breeze out of the south. Light south to southwesterly wind tod will do nothing but pump in heat and humidity. Temperatures in the 70s about everywhere. Lone exception annapolis which is 81 degrees this morning. Hourhour planner in the low 90s today and not as hot as yesterday because we have extra cloud but there will be another storm chance later on into the afternoon and evening. High today 93. That is going tobe the coolest day until early next week. Use your nbc wahington app to track any severe chances this afternoon and there is a rain chance out there this morning. T notice that l whole line there of hit and miss rain chances that extend from eastern pennsylvania down into parts of central west virginia. A couple of drops here this morning. That will be just about it. You can see on our view depends where you are the sun is shining on many spots. Little eather that sprinkle chance out of here the next hour or two. Early this afternoon possibility of stronger storms across yl northern marnd and later on into the afternoon that storm chance will build down into the tashington metro area so it doesnt look thampressive on our future weather delay but any of those individual storm could really pack a bunch like they did yesterday. Things die out after about sun down and excessive heat watch for friday andik saturday ly to be extended into sunday. Heat index tomorrow and saturday possibly amuch as 110 degrees. That is danger zone material for sure. More storms late sundaynto monday and i think last 90 for a little while on sunday. Li mea . Lee street dark traffic light. Chopper 4 should be there in a couple of minutes. 50. Same situation in fairfax. Traffic lights ose becau 3,000 customers without power through that area. Make sure you treat it as a tourway stop. Cambridge road a 44th street a crash reported there in arlington this morning. Outer loop and inner loopo problems there. Travel times here. Arsten to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your c today. Find we will show you how eed and a lot of water are helping change the outlook of young people one of d. C. s greenhouses. En i was diagnosed, the first thing i thought about was my family. I came he and cried. But, as ivesseen my disease progreci the medine has progressed right alongside it. Trying to make medications more affordable is important, but if washington isnt careful we might leave innovation behind. Lets fix the system the right way. Innovation is hope, and the last thing you want to lose in life is hope. Yeah. You got yyeah . Omework . Hey, give me a kiss. Anno ocer whats the roa car company . [ kisses ] t announcer o take your kids to and from school . Dont forget your science project. Announcer we think it can be something bigger. Everybody take your seats. Announcer this summer, volkswagen is supporting americas teachers. Announcer visit your vw dealer to learn how you can join in. Volkswagen drive bevent,ege get a 1,000 purchase bonus on 2019 jetta, tiguan, and select atlas models. Welcome back. Aagine growing up in a food desert and nocess to fresh fruits and vegetables and a reality for so many d. C. Kids who liveofast he anacostia river. But a Learning Center is helping to change that by training students ib uran farming. How does that look to you . C perfe its growing. At first there was no roots. Now see the roots growing. Rian summers is earning his ged at this adult ekarning center and two wes seto his internship at the school greenhougrowing butterhead lettuce and fresh collard greens. Ive done it with 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. It ru down into a gutter and goes back there and gets cleaned and pued back uphe throug. So we use 90 less water than traditional farming but we use no dirt at all. Reporter the water is chuck full of nutrients and they are b to grow produce yearround. The lettuce takes 36from 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 ceo robert sim. Our young people are intellectuals and critical sc holars in this world whoe have faced numerous challenges, who have been pushed out of oter 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 inrovides clinical counseland other Developmental Services to care for the whole child. They discovered for themselves that this school ands and they are like, oh, my god. What do i do . I because can learn, like, how to grow plants and give food back to the community and anything. The mayy School Started their helpith the Anacostia Development program. A lot of this food was given away to food banks this year. The goal of year two is take their fruit and vegebles from the farm to the tables. Hofully start Farmers Market and get produce to them. What a Great Program to help so many people with so many things with this one thing. A museum is a popular spot but a building has been sold. Coming up what will happen today will give us a better idea what will happen to it overall. Plus closing up shot. The mainstay for the d. C. Region prepares to play its final ite. This extreme heat its important to know no amount of time to leaf a child r at unattended in a car even at 80 degrees which when you leave at 8 00 this morning and when you leave ten minutes is up to a 100 in a car. Could be over 110 degrees this afternoon after ten minutes in a car. Do do we are sist rs. And we jved in together. Why alissa and aleah chose fios. We stream so much. A lot of times alissa is watching tv on her laptop using her phone, also using her tablet. I am really good at multitasking cause im awesome. A little. Get the internet your family needs at a price youll love. Plus, the first month u youtube tv on us when itch now. Only on fios. Styling and unbearable is two words to describe this heat this morning. And dangerous. Chuck bell, such a pretty picture but just a picstre. Ju a picture outside. Very hum this morning. Another look here at the National Airport and runw. Notice these darker cloud overhead. There are a couple of drops of rain across parts of our nearby weste and northern suburbs this morning but on the whole nornt a big rain chance until ler on in the afternoon. Weather alert continues. Highs in the 90s. Heat i