Both exited their vehicles. Thete was an argument t occurred on the scene of the arment and a gun was introduced into this argument and our complaintant was actually shot. Reporter at last check, the man who was in shot was in critical condition. D. C. Police advising should you see that car, you should not approach it. The occupants are deemed dangerous. Instead give them a call and let them handle it. Justin, thank you. Ni new thisng in the district, it appears police have cracked a series of Sexual Assault cases more than a deca old. 41yearold levi roughen was charged wth child sex abuse possibly dating back to 1999. Hes also charged withea brking into three different homes in theg middle of the and sexually assaultng someone a knife point. Those cases were between 2003 and 2007 in northwest d. C. For the first time an africanamerican woman is set to lead the Fire Department in Prince Georges County. Current fire chief Benjamin Barksdale announced his retirement tuesday and then county executive introduced chief Deputy Tiffany green as the interim ief. Green has been with the department for 24 years. She says sheo hopes t inspire other young women to join the force. Shes definitely a role model. 6 06. Now to decision 2020. Democrats running for their partys nomi tion took aim at President Trump. It was the first of two nights in the democratic president ial debates inde troit. News 4 jummy joins us now with a look at some of thegh hights. It was certainly a night that first group of ten candidates took to the stage trying to stand out from the crowd. E only topic they could agree on, though, is President Trump. Donald trump disgraces the office of president everyng si day. Little kids literally woke up this weekend, turned on the tv and saw their president calling their city, the town of baltimore, nothing more than a home for rats and i can tell you as your president that will stop. Now the candidates didnt ho back on several topics including health care, immigration, gun control and climate change, but the key theme, of course, was making sure that President Trump is not reelected. Rson we are going to defeat trump and beat him badly is that he is a fraud and a phony and were going to expose him for what he is. Well call his racism out for what it is and also talk about hisceconsequen it doesnt just offend our sensibilities to hear him say send her back about a member of congress because shes a woman of color, because shes a ca muslimameri and really all the candidates had things to say just like that. It is of course, early in the election cycle. For some of the candidates these two nights could make or break their situations and their m capaigns. The ten other democratic presideial candidates, including former Vice President joe biden, will take the stage tonight. Aaron and eun, back over to you. Jummy, thank you. New this morning, President Trump wasted no timein hitt back against those who say hes a racist. The president told cpan the word racist is overused. Such a disgrace. I can tell you im the least racist person there is in the world as far as im concerned. And they use it almost when they run out of things to criticize you. They say hes a racist. Hes a racist. Me cases its true, there are bad people, people who are racist. But with me, they have a hard time getting away with it. And they dont get away with it. Meanwhile, a new nationwide ll is outfrom quinnipiac university, 51 of respondents said they lieve President Trump is racist. 45 said they do not believe that. You can hear it, the president did not get a warm welcome yesterday at an event meant to celebrate democracy. The president was interrupted during his speech for the 400th anniversary of the firste represative Legislative Assembly at jamestown. Hern don area virginia delegate held a sign reading deport hate, unite myfamily. He was escorted out but later tweeted no one should support racism or bigotry. There is nothing more american than raising a voi to authority. Some virginia lawmakers boycotted the president s speech. They held an event in richmond commemorating the 400th in an effort. It was held at the lu kins slave jail a place toriously known for holding slaves. A nortirrn vginia congresswoman has joined the chorus callingim for eachment inquiry. Jennifer wexton released a statement on tuesday saying, quote, i did not run for office with the purpose ofpeaching the president , but i did take an oath to uphold the constitution. Wexton says she believes President Trump would be indicted for obstruction of justice if he were not a tting eresident. Thre now more than 100 representatives in the house calling for an impeachment inquiry. Disappointing news for metro riders who use the re lin fix to cool down the Dupont Circle will take longer than expected. Metrt says the projecas encountered several delays that require design changes. New pods that circulate cool water into the stations are expected to be delivered in the coming weeks. The project should be completed by mid august. Metro will continue running those tunnel funs until the a. C. System is backp and running. Its going to be hot in there, though. Yeah, more hot days to come. Ten minutes after 6 00 a. M. On next ews 4 today, a strangers selfless gift helps a little girl go back to enjoying childhood i was just sitting here. Oh my word, shes running and being akid. More on how makaylas rld has changed after a lifesaving lung transplant. And passersby look on in horror as a child dangles from a balcony. The miraculous rescue is caught on camera. Well show you the eartstopping video. Chuck . Time for your dogwalking forecast on this weather alert day. Get your walks in early today because theres a likelihood o strong to severe thunderstorms starting as early as 2 or 3 00. P. M. Toda this is adam. Hes a 1 1 2yearold guy ready for adoption from humane rescue alliance. Org. Temperatures into the 70s this morning, near 90 before the storms get cranked r afternoonfo well, weave temperatures out there right now that are going to be into theto 08sy, bn we go for jazz in the garden, g listen, weve the jazz in the garden this is happening later on this afternoon. Im sorry, later on friday from 5 00 p. M. To 8 30. We have a pan america salsa band will be. It between pth and 9th treat as far as what were looking at for that, its on friday. Again, this is the scene. Temperatures are going to be dropping through the 80s. Iit doesnt look like will be the best day out there. Well continue to see some Storm Chances as we go through the afternoon on that friday. Th will be something well watch. Ill be back with another thing that you can do on your friday but well talk about rain chances for thatvent coming up. The quick ations of the community in china likely s the life of a 3yearold boy. These terrifying moments show a todd clinging on to the edge of a sixth floor balcony on monday. Neighbors sprung into action when they noticed he was struggling to get back up. They formed a circle and hld a blanket to help break his fall. The boy is expected to recover. Police say he was home alone atw the tile his grandmother went out for groceries. He is lucky to be alive. I mean, theres no telling a that height if the blanket would have actually worked, right . Enough to hold him to keep him from hitting the ground, too. A warning about a scam someone pretending o be a police has been calling people in our area demanding money. Jummy is working for you this morning in the news room with more out of nthern virginia this morning. Aaron, eun, scammers are posing as Alexandria Police officers. Theyre calling peoples haes asking for charitable donations. There have even been reports of scammers telling people they needo pay money over the phone to stop an arrest warrant. Police say they will never call erasking for money ovthe phone. Calls like this are nhing new, though. Police say there isnt much that we can do to stop them. Hang up on the caller right away, ofsay, and dont call them back. Some callers have been asking for drivers license numbers. Police say dont give them that information either. Make sure you report any suspicious calls back over to police. Aaron and eun, back to you. Jummy, thank you. An gan donation is allowing a 5yearold girl to breathe normally for the first time ever. Momma called the doctor and theidoctor sao more makaylas jumping on the bed makaylas crosby ha cystic fibrosis. Its a disease that affects h her lungs work. She couldnt run a lap around the kitchen. Island after getting a new set of lungs she is running and jumping just like every other kid her age. Shes not quite out of the woods just yet though. She could be fine the rest of her life or she could need three more. I just think its all depending on her body and how her body reacts to them. Makayla has been taking more than two dozen medications each day to make sure her body accepts the new lungs. A she her mom say that it is worth it. Were hoping those lungs keep rking for makayla. Take a look at this. What a catch. 34yearold maryland fishing record has fallen. That is a 72. 8 pound hi mahi caught off the coast of ocean city over the weekend. The guy who caught it, jeff wright on the right said it took about5 minute togs reel that fish in. He said literally 25 minutes. The old record was 67 pounds set bacin 1985. He and his friend were out there practicing for a competition, a fishing competition, and. Real thing. Great picture and a story to tell. Im glad they weighed it. I feel torn. Right. You want to release, catch and release especially once youve broken the record like that. Thats an awful lot of fish to eat. Get me some wasabi sauce we might feel differently about this. Congratulations to them. For what we need to know about today, you need to stay weather alert on your wednesday. Weather alert mode because theres a significant chance for stg thunderstorms around here during the afternoon. The highest risk area is highlighted in the yellow here. That does include all of the d. C. Metro area and the i95 corridor rightp through baltimore, philly and up into new york city. Traveling today between here and new york, youll be going right into the thick of the Severe Weather chances. Not much going onng this some rumbles of thunder pretty active cluster of storms there moving up towards about in northeastern pennsylvania. Some lingering rain showers not severe storms, though, but rain showers already taking place in eastern West Virginia. As though showers take their own sweet time to get towards the d. C. metropolitan area, well warm up quickly this morning. Were in the 70ed, 60s and 70s now with more than enough su80nshinehimos tsgrn st toin around 90 degrees by lunchtime today. That much heat and humidity will be the fuel for storms. So with a pretty harmless area of rain now in West Virginia will become increasingly strong thunderstorms as we get into the ternoon. So here is 2 00 p. M. Severe weather likely from martinsburg to winchester to the warrenton area as we moveinto 4, 5 00 p. M. Now, bubbling up of what could be some localized severe storms in and around the d. C. Metro area and across Northern Virginia and suburban maryland. Things will about 6 or 7 00 p. M. This evening but the evening commute today could be hard hit with ng some stro thunderstorms by 10 00 p. M. All is settling back down once again. So, your currenton conditi 76 here in washington with some clouds around. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s pretty much areawide. Gardening forecast then, up close to 90 degrees today before those storms really start to geg ng. Your gardening tip, Early Morning is the best time to water your lawn for sure to gi ur plants time to absorb the water before all the heat evaporates it away. Five day forecast, may notneed water the plants the next few days, pretty high rain chances right through the rest of the workweek. Satury could be rather impacted by rain showers as well. Sunday is back to just an isolated storm chance. Tenday forecast in the next half hour melissa . All right. Thank you, thank you. Right now first 4 Traffic Alert a couple thingsg. Happenin one of them wheaten just a short time ago Georgia Avenue now reopened. Those northbound and southbound near reedie but we still have apparatus on the scene because of this building fire in a trash room is theon originati area. Georgia at reedie may still have slowdowns there. Taking a look at my map now, big delay in frederick, eastbound 70 near 15, the left lane is getting by that work zone here this morning. So we do have some delys inbound there. Northbound 95 after 17, still have this crash. It is on the left side of the a roadway causing some pretty big slow downs. Westbound 66 after nutley right lane blocked at the crash, southbound 123 before hampton road a crash reported there as well. Everything else looking okay. Well have live pictures from chopper here just a minute of the fire in ashburn. Aron . Melissa, thank you. 6 21, next on news 4 today, feeling froggy. Ribbit. G, feeling groggy this morn your phone might be able to help with that. Find out how sleep experts say you can get the most out of apps design to promote better sleep. Feeling froggy. Im sorry. If youre at home this afternoon, dont miss keanu reeves will be on ellen this morning. Do you know why thats so unny to me . Her show will air at 3 00 p. M. On nbc 4. Ro stick d for news 4 at 4 this afternoon with pat lawson and leon harris, too. Well be right back or maybe we wont. Somebody else might be in these chairs after this break. Well see what happens. Announcer youre watching news 4 today. A new survey from Consumer Reports shows 80 of adults struggle to get a good night sleep at least once a week. Thats not good. More and more people are turning to smart phones for relief, but are they effective . News 4 is working for your Health Getting advice from sleep experts. Reporter sleep apps have become a booming business with downloads increasing as much as 20 over the past year. An app called sleep as androids habeen downloaded more than 18 million times since 2010. Although the science on this isnt settled. While there has been some research on theti effeeness of sleep apps, its preliminary at betet. Repor noise apps can help by blocking out that barking dog or street traffic. Hi, and welcome to relax melody sleep meditations. Reporter other as lead you through guided imagery, meditation and even hypnosis to calm your racing mind. Ne reporter but of the most effective treatments is cognitive behavioral therapy, or cbt, where a trained therapist can helpyou fixbad sleeping habits. The American Academy of sleep medicine says that cognitive h behavioral tapy is the best first step in treating chronic insomniat thats because i can help you change the thoughts and behaviors that can lead to seep problems. Reporter and what about those sleep tracker apps that claim to chart your sleep patterns and how long you spend in deeper stages ofsleep . Even though some people swear by them, doctors say they arent reliable and shouldnt be used to diagnose sleep disorders. At this point, they cant te you when youshould sleep. They cant measure deep sleep. They cant really all right 6 26 our time. Still ahead our coverage of last nights debate continues with a look at a fiery exchan health care. The two ideas being debated and what it would mean for youre cove plus, good news for a local vet who feared he lost a family heirloom forever. Ather . How about our all right. Our weather could turn a bit s ormy on s theond half announcer new begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. Were in for another hot and humid day, get ready and were watching the potential for Severe Weather this afternoon. Good morning, everyone im eun yang. Im aaron gilchrist. 6 30 your time now. We are i weather alert mode this morning. Were also following some breaking news in ashburn, multiple homes have been damaged in an overght fire. You see live pictures from chopper 4 here over that area right now. Ews 4 Megan Mcgrath is on the ground for us shell join us with a live report in just a few minutes. We do want to begin, though, with a check on your forecast and the commute. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is standing by with your forecast. s but legin with Melissa Mollet and your first 4 traffic. Melissa . Some real slow downs this morning on 70. If u come o of Washington County or Frederick County and head towards 270, i want to war we still have the left lane getting by the work zone. Its a slow ride over to 270 as youre headed eastbound because of that work zone. Allow extra time for sure. Brand new problems southbound 270 after montrose road, crash on the right side is blocking lane. Were expecting that to get slow. In wheaten, northbound Georgia Avenue at reedie, left lane getting y. The Fire Department activity part of the southboes of georgia also blocked because of is earlier fire. Northbound 95 here after 17 rea right now youre just getting by on the right side. We have some pretty good delays headed northbound. And a storm team 4 weather alert for you today. Already some thunderstorms in northeastern pennsylvania. Theyre not going to concern us, but already developing rain across parts of central West Virginia, that area of raininess will come our way during the peak of dtitime hea. So there is a risk for Severe Weather today all across the news 4 nation. The highest risk, though, mincludes the washingtonro area and this yellowshaded area goes all the way up to the i95 corridor and will impact the rncond part of the aften. So if youre one of the 40 or 50,000 people headed down to nats ballpark for today, its a noon game, 12 05 first pitch. The game will have no trouble gettingcooing but there ld easily be rain delays in the later innings. Temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90. Stormens cs as high as 70 for the evening commute. Ut ill show youe weather coming