A stray shower possible today. Not likely. S id about 10 chance you will see that the mainly north of d. C. Through maryland. You guys may have a stray shower thgh the afternoon and evening. Perfect day to get out to the pool. Not going to be like that each day this week. Rain chces returning to our p ea. Thats coming u the tenday merecast. Ntime, we are following breaking news out of thct distri this morning. Three people shot on t street in northwest d. C. Overnight. Now, police sayhat this happened near the howard theater. All three victims were rushed to the hospital. To word on their condition right now, but policeay they are looking for a white audi car with d. C. Tags in connection to this case. We do have some good news this morning. Wer has been restored to thousands of people who were left in the dark in the district. Thats right. News4s derrick ward is live in the newsroom with the latest on the overnight outage. What happened, derrick . Yu know, it was about 2 45 yesterday afternoon when something went wrong at a pepco substation on floridavenue in northwest. That cut power to some 39,000 customers in northwest, areaske shaw, mount vernon square, around howard university. Traffic lights, cashgi rers, and of course air conditioners were out for those customers. We hadelhone conference this morning with pepcos chief operating officer. He says they now know what happened. Crews work overnight to restore the problem. It was a transformer blew with that substation and they got the first batch of customers,or 5,0 so, up by 5 00 p. M. The last of those customers were restored this morning. Onow, pepc crews rebuilt some oa the tformers on site and brought in some backup units from del mar hamarva power and sources. Now,in thabout transformers. They are the things that make the power, the voltage that Power Companies use to send the power out over the line safe to usein your home like when you charge your cellphone. That little block is a transformer. That helps voltage not burn your s happened on larger scale at that pepco substation and they are now working to find out what happeneom in the news derrick ward, news4. Back to you. Certainly a lot of people happy that the power is on. Politics now. President trump spent part of his weekend attacking maryland congressman consulti congressman Elijah Cummings and the city of baltimo w in a war ofrds. Overnight the president tweeted, quote, so sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of baltimore. Statistically, baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has doing nothing but milk baltimore dry but the public is etting wise to the bad job that he is doing, end quote. This comes after i described cummings west baltimore mstrict as a disgusting rat and rodentinfestedess. The president was apparently reacting to the grilling that cummings gave last week to acting Homeland Security secretary Kevin Mcaleenan over conditions at detention facilities along the border. Doing our level best what does that mean . What does that mean when a child issi tting their owns . Fece cant take a shower. Come on, man. Cummings responded to the president s attacks by saying it is his constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch. Baltimore city leaders meantime and the governor of governor came to cummin defense as well. All of these comments along with much more will be a topic on this weeks special councili hearng on meet the press. We will talk about special counsel Robert Muellers testimon moderator, chuck todd, will join us in studio before the show with what all this means forhe white house moving forward. Meet the press starts at 10 30 right here after news4 today. We want to get to a tragic story developing in new york city. A father is charged for the deaths of his 1yearoldtwins after they were left in a car on a hot summer day. Police say Juan Rodriguez left his kids inside the car while he went to work in the bronx on friday. The l htle boy and girl been in the back seat for nearly eighturs. Rodriguez told authorities he didnt realize what had happened until he arrived to his car after his shift. Rodriguez has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges. He is due back in court this thursday. Meantime, we are working to identify the names of two People Killed in a car crash that happened yesterday morning along route 301 in charles county. Maryland state police say pedro garcia was driving near mount n air road whee rearended another car. A woman and a girl in that car died on the scene. The driv in the car was air rifted to the hospital. Police say garcia refused to be treated at the scene. No word whether or not he is going to face any chges. Now to some security concerns at Union Station. This is a ve look outside right now. The Amtrak Office of the highlights neral some safety risks at the traportation hub. O take a look at this. Youll remember this video you are about to see here. The report says this car was able to drive onto the platform ht on to the tracks earlier this year. The Inspector General says passengers and staff are also put at risk because of broken surveillance cameras and lack of monitoring of entrances. Amtrak says th agree with the reports safety recommendations. They released a statement that readsin part, quote, we have taken important steps for improvements such as creating a plan to document how we will address the vulnerabilities oig identified at the station and yard by9. September of 201 well, people who have paid their debt to society, they are getting a Second Chance at cleaning up their records. Its all thanks to a local church. The First Baptist church of glenarden hosted this free expungement fair in upperma boro yesterday. They brought together judges and lawyers who gave the group free advice. They reviewed some records to see if they were f eligibleor expungement. People also got advice or getting their Voting Rights restored. We are weeks away from the first day of school. Are your kids ready . They better be. Some kids from our area received some essential backtoschool items. The ch ochrganized this event in alexandria yesterday. Children and their families from d. C. And alexandria received coats, shoes, gift cards and supplies. This is the 16th yearof this annual event. We are so proud of it. It is one of our anchor events. Such a greatv et. Those supplies are expensive. Yes. 15,000 lowincome children and their families were preselected for yesterdays event. Coming up next, flyer beware. The news4 iteam reveals how cyber thieves can access your thinformation. Potential traps are hidden plain site. We will show you how to protect yourself and family coming up next on news4 today. 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People who travel go to Great Lengths toprotect their credit card, but they dont think about this. What every hacker wants is your data. Reporter bersecurity expert james lee says they are constantly coming up with new ways to get it. Screen names, email addresses, where you shop, and what you buy. Andt the airport you keep it all in the palm of your hand until you are running low on power. When you connect up tf these power charges, you are connecting up to a computer you cant see. Reporter avoid the usb ports. The Old Fashioned port is safer. Oh, no, you forgot your cord . Beware. An identity thief may be the one who left theirs behind. Some of the newer cords have chips in there, so you can add malware to the cord itself. Reporter it can steal your data like a direct connection to your computer. Stored passwords and p. I. N. Numbers are most valuable. Tanya bonds loves to travel, but didnt realize her personal information could also be on the move. I always plug in my usb into the lamp. Thats what i was told was safe. R nope. T and those fancy hotel lamps and alarm clocks are convenient, arent they . You never know who spent hours in that room before you did. Its easy to alt one of these kind of ports. Reporter which means the port in your rental car orsh rideare can also be risky. On board computer and bluetooths systean capture your data. You have now left your footprint from that phone in that car. Reporter the Electronic Privacy Information Center says hackers stealing your data shouldnt be your only concern. We all interact with legitimate businesses that are really after r data so they can sell it to they are collecting more informatiofothan is required your interaction with that company. Thats part of the problem. Reporter have you tried these fancy new ipads to order your nch or a drink . While you are devouring that burger, the tabletli is globb up information about you. And when you swipe your card to pay, it marries that information with whayever else have done on that tablet. My gmail all the time. Reporter you log in on the ipads . Yes, maam. Reporter even games you play prompt you to enter pefrm information. Feeli social . Enter your login and password. Any posts can be scored. From a securityctperspee, there is not as much risk as there is privacy risk. Reporterthe privacy licy, which most users never read, clearly states we may build and store user profile preferences based op your use of the tablet program. Even lists the ways they may share personally identifiable information with third parties. It makes it almost impossible to track down all the policies. Reporter plus you never know how that data will be used in the futurecauch. If the third parts fall victim to a data breach, you dont know what information they had. Even when you scan your boarding pass to pay with miles or get flightve alerts, that connience also costs you. Your frequent flyer data, rewards program, and trip information. You have to be savvy. Wherever there is the ability for somebody to siphon off your data, they are going to try and you need to protect it. Reporter his best advice . Flyer beware. If it isnt your device, dont log into it. The tablet Privacy Policy says users can contact thepa com to review the personal information thats been captured and request it be deleted. So many s peopleare information. For more information visit our nbc washington app and click on flyer beware under investigations. A live look outside looking at the white house. Crystal clear day, 78 degrees. 9 14 is the time. Thank you for joining us. You soundte exci also going to be a beautiful day. And lauryn is going to tell us about it when we return. Welcome back. Your time now is 9 16. We are talking about something that sounds likeut of a movitu like g sck in quicksand mud. Look at that. Thse are notocks. This picture shows the predicament of an 87yearold man from ppr area. Thied near the Potomac River in bethesda. Aimee cho with the incredible story about how his dog helped bark dow help. Reporter this is a story about mans best friend. Letst mee blue and jax and their human, lamar neville. Talk to him for five seconds and youll see why he is popular with pets and people alike. And, yes, that is his name on his shirt. I just put it on so people know who i am. Thats kind of nice. Reporter on monday, lamar thought it would be nice to take the dogs for aby walk the c and o canal. His wife was going see a movie. She told her husband wait until we come back because if you fall oddown, nob will know where you are. Reporter did lamar wait . Noot. He did n. And sure enough found himself in a sticky situation. I tell you, that mud was literly up to my knees and i couldnt pull my legs out. Reporter mired in mud. The more he moved, the more he sank. I was trying to dig it out with my hands, but it just oozed back over. And it made a mess. Reporter lamar stood there an hour yelling for helpful he wasnt loud enough to be heard, but these guys wey. If theadnt been with me, i dont know whether i would have gotten anybody. Reporter eventually, gtad samarins stopped by to lend a hand and the Fire Department gave lamar a lift home with the help of a hose he and his Furry Friends a good as new now and lamar says being stuck in the mud wasnt the worst thing in the world. If you want to try it, its not that far. If you want to go see what its like . Reporter i think i will take your word for it. Aimee cho, news4. Nothing against cats hey, dont go there. Thats why dogs are the best. Puppies . Nothing againstpu ies or cats. Puppy would save me. You are stuckin the mud, pup puppy would be like, lets just hang out. Did you not see pat collins pet tricks things. Cats can do things, too. Yeah, but a dog won that contest, too. Firefighters say if you get stuck in the mud, dont struggle. It only makes you sink faster. They have special gadgets to help you out. Were glad lamar is all rigt. Listen to your wife next time, too. All right. Listen, its nice out there. Today is the day to get outside. Its going to be hot . Yeah. You were outside yesterday. You were sitting in the sunshine. Melting. I know. I mean, the july sun we were lking about the nats game. Its hot out there. And we dont have the humidity t outre today. That may fool some people. Why are you smirking lke that . Its the end of july. You said it was august earlier. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We are close. What is today . The 28t i guess we are close. Spotty showers out there today and tomorrow. Look at this. Isolated cans of rain as we get into tuesday. Scattered chances f your wednesday and thursday. So i know we had a spotty shower e yesterday. Nely shower out of the eanhern paandle of west virginia. It floated all the way over tou er montgomery county. Again make another chance today mainly north. Ls we will keep a chance for tomorrow, a 20 chance of rain on tuesday, and then up it even more for awednesday thursday. Conditions today similar to yesterday. If you liked yesterday, you are really going to like today. La id showers and then humidity starts to seep back in. Ttyou will feel it a li bit today. Definitely feel it tomorrow. And then by tuesday all bets are off. Its going to be hot and humid back around the area. Temperatures in the 70s. Annapolis on the water, low 80s. Quantico 7 marine base right now. 70s and 80s for brunch. If you are headed out, sunscreen. I wouldsit you outside if you ka stand it, especially in the shade. Temperatures this afternoon low 90s. Depending how long you do brunch, you may experience some of those temperatures. Its going to be fairly comfortable comfortable out there, especially from now until the early portion of the afternoon. Church services warm and dry. Pool, definitely get out to the pool if you can. Thats all sunshine. Again with that stray shower chanceainly north and evening barbecue, aokay, looking good for that. Dry across the area right now thanks to High Pressure in charge. As far as your monday morning commute, plenty of sunshine. Temperatures top out in the lowtomid 90s. We could have patchy fog tomorrow morning, especially for areas th have a little bit of rain. Again another spotty shower chance tomorrow. We will have that 20 chance on tuesday. By the catime we get into wednesday, a system pushes through. Well keep a chance for scattered rain showers wednesday and thursday. Frontal system stalls to the south, so well continue with those rain chances. Unfortunately, all the way through next week, possibly even into next week. Im mark murray with nbc news. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on wednesday answered Congress Questions for his testimony on his russia investigation. Heres what we learned. Number one,ueller contradicted President Trumps story on the russia probe saying it was not witch hunt or a hoax, and also emphasizing that he did not exonerate the president. Number two, all that saiod the of trumps impeachment seem less likely now given a lack of another Bombshell Development and the math of removing thepr ident from office. Until three, mueller was the most animated when he was describing russias inteinferene he 2016 election saying it deserves the attention of every american. Number four, mueller was less animated about othermatters, including about whether the president committed obstruction of justice. Number five, mueller was a credible witness. He lis afelong republican and he lis afelong republican and he carefull need help paying for college