exceed that as we get into the afternoon. right now at reagan national, it is 91 degrees and it is 93 in frederick, maryland, upper 8 os to near 90 about the entire region now and that combined with the humidity, it already feels like it s in the mid-90s with the heat index and it s going to continue to climb. heat index by mid-afternoon should be 1 00 to 105 degrees. that is what it should feel like when you factor in the humidity. all these counties in orange are under this heat advisory from on until 10:00 p.m., most of maryland, parts of eastern virginia. a deep area of high pressure that is now anchored over our region. that is why we are going to have this excessive heat by mid to late afternoon, it should soar to the upper 90s with just a very light wind and it will be very humid, as well. this is the hottest day of the year so far. we re not acclimated to it. you really have to respect this kind of heat and do everything you can to stay cool. if you don t have to be outside, definitely need to stay in the a.c. through the afternoon. a look at when we re going to get a break at this and a look at the weekend, too, in just a few minutes. barbara? thank you, tom. the dangerous heat had many people changing their morning routines. melissa mollet joins us live from downtown silver spring. what did you see going out there this morning? we went into the live truck a lot. it is a day for sunscreen and spray bottles. you probably hear a little excitement behind me. just behind me the fountain will turn on in about an hour and it will be a mad rush and let me show you why. a lot of kids out here for their weekly little tots program that silver sprik puts on during the morning. the kids are waiting and ready in these bathing suits because after this event they re jumping in the fountain trying to stay cool with a little bit of shade. the scorching sun ready to warm us up even early this morning, this could end up being the hottest day of the year in washington so far, but it s special tough because we aren t yet acclimated to this warm weather and the heat might not pass the time dancing with a sprinkler downtown. some folks out early on the national mall to beat the heat riding bikes, jogging, getting the workout in before the temperature heads north. i have my water and doing it early and i ll be back in within an hour and stay in the remainder of the day. reporter: at community vision of interfaith works a silver spring day program for the homeless, they re handing out water and keeping doors open today for anyone who needs to cool off. our building, of course, is air conditioned. we allow people to come in and stay and we open the conference room and just let them come in and stay cool. reporter: most county heat advisory plans, as well as the districts kick in once temperatures hit 95 degrees and then cooling centers and many shelters and libraries open up for anyone needing a bit of a break for those working outside like these construction workers in northwest, it s a sticky, sweaty day that easily puts them at risk for heat stroke. troy brown says his boss brings in extra water for their crews and it s all about staying hydrated. plenty of water, plenty of water. cold water, too. going to be hot out here. i noticed from experience it s going to be hot out here. take a lot out of you. reporter: joseph malone has two dogs he s trying to keep from the heat. he ll stay in the shade and giving them both plenty of water. if you put some water and take some water and put it on their head and the back and let them stay still, they ll be okay. reporter: he says they will be okay, just let them stay still. we can t say it enough, lots and lots of water. a big one like this is the best way to go. you want to dress as lightly as possible if you haven t gone outside yet today, it is really warm. if you happen to be in a place like silver spring or near a water park, if you can frolic in a fountain, i would absolutely advise it on a day like today. live in silver spring, barbara, back to you. sounds like that man you talked to has good advice for people as well as dogs, water on the head and stay still. absolutely. thank you so much, melissa. have a great day and stay cool, if you can. may take longer than usual to get if you take metro s red light right now. this was the outside scene at the woodley park metro station. a problem with an insulator causing sparks and smoke. the delays could continue into the afternoon and we re hearing of some horrible conditions on those red line trains. one rider wrote on our facebook page that trains are packed and very, very hot. she says one woman passed out. another became sick it her stomach. well, let s check on the traffic out there now. danella, what s it looking like as folks try to get around in this heat? hot, barbara, it s looking hot. you mentioned that metro red lines are having delays. normally you re not allowed to bring a bottle of water, but they re lifting that today and tomorrow. if you re taking the mote row train or metro bus, you can have a bottle of water with you to keep cool today. rets let s head over to the roads. aannoying with this heat traveling on the american legion bridge and not seeing any accidents but you re slow as you cross the outer loop and head towards the dulles toll road. thank you so much. we have breaking news in the district right now. just a few minutes ago police took a man into custody in connection with a deadly shooting bringing to an end a standoff. the deadly happened near 17th and r streets. tracy willcon was the first reporter on the scene there. she joins us live where she is watching it all unfold live. this all happened before 3:00 a.m. and we were here shortly after that. this started as a homicide investigation after this man was shot in front of an apartment house here at 17th and r streets in southeast. but then it quickly turned from a homicide investigation into a barricade situation. now, d.c. police confirm that the suspect was held up inside of the apartment house. this man apparently turn himself into police around 10:00 a.m. ending a five-hour standoff. police closed off minnesota avenue and kept everyone at a distance as armored vehicles and s.w.a.t quickly responded to the scene. just after 7:00 a.m., police began to escort people who live inside the apartment house out of the building into safety, including some women and children. three men were brought out in handcuffs. a few hours later, police say they have a possible suspect in custody. lieutenant robert alder is joining us live to fill in the gaps. i was here when the homicide investigation began, but at some point the detectives backed out of that apartment house and they said we believe we have a barricade situation and moved us back. explain what happened inside that apartment building that led to that. the detectives were on the scene and they knew there was a suspect at one of those apartments and at that time a barricade was declared and they moved back from the building to allow the emergency response team to take over the situation. at this point can you say the person you took into custody was armed? at this time we cannot say. we are still going through the scene and evaluating the evidence. let s talk about the victim in this incident. who is he? how old is he? the victim is 24-year-old jeron brown from southeast washington, d.c. i understand he did not live here, but was here possibly with a group of people who gathered outside the apartment house last night. he did not live in this area. we re still investigating to determine what he was doing here at this time. all right, thank you so much, lieutenant, for joining us this morning. still unfolding. as you can see here behind me, d.c. police are still holding the scene here as they continue with their investigation. now, remember, because of this barricade situation, it took away from the time that they needed to investigate the actual homicide. so, now, that is under way. i m tracee wilkins reporting live in southeast, news 4. tracee, thank you. today former d.c. council member thomas harry junior will begin serving his prison sentence. he will report in alabama. he ll likely spend at least 2 1/2 years there. back in january, he pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants that were supposed to go to youth programs. our time right now, nine minutes after 11:00. coming up, the last line of defense. the penn state sex abuse case is expected to wrap up today. will jerry sandusky take the stand? plus, he s a successful rapper and tv star and now making his dir new today three u.s. service members and afghan translator have been killed in eastern afghanistan. 17 afghans died in the blast. a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a military convoy. no one is claiming responsibility yet for this attack. security officials in egypt say hosni mubarak is now off life support, but in a coma. overnight state media reported the 84-year-old suffered a stroke and needed a breathing tube when he was moved to a military facility. now security officials say his heart and other vital organ are functioning. he was sentenced to life in prison for news of his mass killings. a debate over who will succeed mubarak. results are scheduled to be announced tomorrow. the defense in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial is expected to rest today. if sandusky is going to take the stand in his own defense, it will happen this morning. the former coach was wife took the stand yesterday. she told jurors she never saw or heard any inappropriate contact between sandusky and boys who stayed at their home. she also contradicted one accuser who claimed he had yelled for help saying the room he claimed to be in was not sound proof. sandusky is accused of sexually abusing 15 boys over a ten-year span. right now on capitol hill, major developments on an attempt to hold attorney general eric holder for refusing to turn over documents from a secret government operation. president obama asserted executive privilege it withhold remaining documents related to the flawed fast and furious operation. the program involved federal weapons lost in a gun smuggling program and later recovered at crime scenes. despite the president s executive privilege, a house committee is still scheduled to vote on the contempt issue. we ve been talking about just how hot it is out there. tom says it has already broken a 90 mark heading towards the century mark today. i stepped outside and came right back in. that s what you need to do. do not spend too much time outside now through the afternoon and into the evening hours unless you absolutely have to. stay in the ac and right now there is the hot sky over the jefferson memorial. that s a live view from our nbc 4 hd city camera. you can see that humidity. the haze hanging in the air over the monuments on this wednesday morning, 91 already at reagan national. just past 11:00 in the morning, we have a light breeze and it is very humid. temperatures right now around the metro area. it is near 90 in prince george s county, fairfax, arlington, montgomery. and a breeze off the bay and little cooler and annapolis at 88. not much of a breeze, only 5 mile an hour wind. temperatures near 90, as well. through much of virginia and into west virginia and shenandoah valley and of course out in the highlands it s cooler out in western maryland and only low 80s there. when you factor in the humidity with the heat, this is what it feels like. the heat index, 103 now in frederick. heat index right around washington is in the mid and upper 90s. that s the feels like temperature. feels like 100 in eastern on the eastern shore. a breeze off the bay, not helping there. all these counties in orange under this heat advisory noon to 10:00 p.m. includes northern virginia, the district, all of maryland. eastern west virginia and heat index that feels like temperature 100 to 105 during the afternoon. how hot? well, near record heat. the records today at reagan national, 99 set on this date back in 1931, we may be flirting with that record this afternoon. then as we get into tomorrow, another perhaps day with near record heat. the record tomorrow 98 and there was the sunrise this morning over the potomac river and, as we have our summer solstice happening today, we will have our highest sun elevation, as well. at 1:10 p.m., the highest it is throughout the year, nearly 75 degrees up and 95 degrees directly overhead. there s the view from space, big deep view and that s why we re getting the big heat and for the rest of the afternoon, highs reaching the upper 90s and very hot and very humid and definitely just stay inside and if you can, set your thermostat to 78. that will help to keep our power on, too. it is going to be huge demands on electricity with all this heat and everybody using the ac. this evening, not much relief. near 90 by sunset which is at 8:37. by midnight near 80. another day tomorrow a lot like today. but we might get an isolated thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon. then as we get into friday with more clouds around, thankfully, a break from the high heat and a lot of make it up to around 90 on friday afternoon and then late afternoon and into the evening we could get some thunderstorms. in fact, likely thunderstorms as a cool front comes just in time for the weekend. lower humidity and cooler temperatures that should linger into the first part of next week. but you know what will keep us cool today? what? ice-t. we need it. ice-t happens to be in the studio. you ll see him in a few minutes. hey, danella. folks in their cars heading to the beach already? unfortunately, they don t have ice-t. but if you re traveling the highway, you have delays. in montgomery county slow from i-95 and inner loop really slow. take a look at this as you make your way. your delays continue right past i-95 in this area. also, if you re traveling on i-66, things look a lot better for you. here s a live look as you make your way eastbound clear as you head to the beltway, not a bad travel speed, barbara. you re at 57 miles per hour. back over to you. danella a, we ll see you again, shortly. 19 minutes after 11:00, still ahead on news 4 midday, the random attack that happened in the middle of the street during the height of rush hour. plus, discovering the roots of rap. i ice-t smile for us there. he s here with us live in the studio. first, here s a look at what s hot on nbcwashington.com. we took a record player and turned it into an instrument. here s this world that you may not know about and the people who lived in that world from that other side of the tracks gave them a voice. this is from the documentary something from nothing, the art of rap. makes the debut of ice-t. the rapper and actor joins us this morning with more on the movie now playing in theaters and good morning. how are you? you re more than just a triple threat now. you act, you sing, you act and now you direct. yeah. did you ever imagine this is the way your life, i read a little bit of your bio. your life has been through so many changes. just as the opportunities came, i just tried to take advantage of the opportunities, you know. when i was in the streets, i thought that was the only opportunities available and then when i got to rap, that opened the door to acting and, you know, i ve been acting now over 25 years and i wanted to direct. so, i said this will be my first step into the directorial world. a lot of people would be surprised that you were in the military at one point. i was infantry and, you know, it was cool, but once i did get out of there i was like, i m kind of done taking orders, i want to start giving some orders. let s talk a little bit about this brand-new movie. what made you decide you want to do this? i m watching american culture, golden culture and everybody loves rap and hip-hop and i just saw the weather. they have rapping weatherman out there and i m like, do they really know where it comes from? it s easey to play with stuff if you don t know the origin of it or where it comes from. hip-hop was born in the south bronx by kids and now just part of the fabric of america. your mailman comes up and he has his hat tilted and that s hip-hop. i called my friends and i said, let s do a film. let s talk about the craft. they said, ice, no one ever asked us about that. we did the movie and took it to sundance and now a theatrical release which is unheard of for a documentary. i ve seen the trailer only and very impress would the trailer. of course, a lot of folks know you as a regular on law and order special victims unit and you have your own reality show. what is it like to be on the other side of the camera. i say my lines, i leave and it magically appears on television. now, you re doing the film and you have to control every frame and you have to have the music, you have to have the licenses for the music and lots of paperwork. it took two years to do this film. i have a whole new respect for directors. but i want to do features. i had to jump in head first. how much of your own career as a rapper did you use in putting this together. how much of your experience did you use for writing this piece? i was able to interview these guys from the inside. i was able to talk to them as it appears. like being an nfl player. so, i got really different types of interviews than a normal interviewer would get. i get all kind of different stories and fun and laugh and people that see the movie, they laugh with it, they cheer with it and in a world of hate, my film hasn t gotten one negative review and you can t even save a baby in times square. somebody say you pick it up wrong. let me ask you, though, you say that you don t think that the music today reflects what s really going on. so, even the rappers aren t talking about what s really happening in the world today? really, all music really has kind of gone into this pop, dilutional state. the internet has made it easy for people to make music, but to be heard, you have to get on the radio. the radio wants to dilute you and put you into this one stream of let s not sing about anything. so, what happens is you lose all the content and, you know, if you listen to music today, it doesn t reflect, you know, people losing their homes, unemployment, the issues in wall street. music it just says, we re all having fun, we re all rich and it s kind of, maybe it s an a escape, but i miss the conscious music that talk about what s going on. what about the issues in washington? you going to get involved in that? so much material here. so much material. why don t you hang out here for a while and write about what s going on here. i think hip-hop had a lot to do with putting president obama into the white house. i think it opened the mind of the voters 20 years ago when myself, pe and everybody was talking and the kids looked at it like, hey, now i understand basically black people and inner city people and i don t have a problem voting for a black man. which i don t think could happen prior to hip-hop and the music revolution. do you think hip-hop now has become nonracial? does it belong to both black and white? i think eminem broke down that barrier and he s in the film and one of the incredible rappers. i think any art form as long as you prove to people you re serious about it and not making a mockery of it, you re allowed inside. people are just protective of their craft. but it doesn t really matter. you know, you have black opera singers and i mean i had a rock band. it doesn t really matter, as long as you re doing it correctly. what is next isn t. i just want to direct. and people out there that haven t seen the film can go to thea theartofrap.com and see the trailer. thank you. this is fun. see you soon, then. it s 11:28 now. coming up in the next half hour, turning the tables on the tsa. how one woman took anger over a pat down into her own hands. plus, some of the most recognizable music on broadway. and broadway history, in fact. it s now coming to the kennedy center. the stars of first to dream will join us coming up. summer starts tonight, but the heat isn t right now on news 4 midday, a man in is custody in connection with a deadly shooting in southeast washington. the arrest brings an end to a standoff that lasted most of the morning. the deadly shooting happened around 3:00 this morning in an apartment home near the intersection of 17th and r streets in southeast d.c. and breaking news, other news from southeast washington, one person was shot and stabbed inside a barber shop. the attack happened just before 11:00 a.m. in the 2400 block of good hope road southeast. the victim is conscious, we understand, and breathing. police have not made any arrests in this case. we have a crew on the way and we will bring iyou more informatio as it comes in to us. because of the dangerous heat, the district is rescheduling trash pickup this week to help accommodate employees who have to work outside. the d.c. department of public works will begin collections an hour earlier at 6:00 a.m. for the rest of this week. that means you can put out trash and recycling starting at 6:00 the night before pickup. power companies are urging you to conserve energy during this dangerous heat to avoid major outages. according to pepco a central air conditioner makes up about 30% of your energy bill. you can clean the air filter for efficiency, pepco is also asking that you set your thermostat around 78 degrees to make sure your place will stay as cool as possible, move lamps and tvs away from the ac thermostat, which could make your system run longer than needed. and make sure furniture isn t blocking air ducts or fans for better circulation. we re going to check in with tom now to find out how hot it is out there as we talk about this heat, tom. how hot is it already? it is already now exceeding 90 degrees and the ac is on all over the place and temperatures are climbing. we are now 91 at reagan national and probably higher than that now. these temperatures were taken about half an hour ago. probably now already into the low 90s to even mid-90s much of the region. look at the heat index. that s the feels like temperature when you factor in the humidity already into the mid-90s and aberdeen, heat index 104 right now. later today, the air temperature reaching upper 90s and heat index up to around 105 and much of the region through the rest of the afternoon with hazy sunshine, high humidity and then tomorrow more of the same, although we might get an isolated afternoon or evening thunderstorm. and then, likely, afternoon and evening thunderstorms and a break from the high heat on friday with more clouds around, but still rather humid and then over the weekend, lower humidity moving in and cooler temperatures, as well, for saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday, much more comfortable. so, this is a short-lived heat wave, but it is intense. that s the way it looks right now. barbara? definitely intense, tom, i ve been out there in it, thanks a lot. new this morning, we now know the name of a man killed in a crash in north springfield. it happened just before midnight at leesville boulevard. police say 24-year-old paul wickwire lost control of his ford explorer and rolled it into a ditch. he was ejected from the suv and died at the scene. the cause of the crash is under investigation. police say speed may be to blame. this morning we re trying to learn more about how a man wanted for murdering a woman in d dewey beach died. at the atlantic oceanside hotel found melmin s body. police launched a manhunt and found his body at a hotel in new jersey. this is the first murder in dewey beach since the town was incorporated back in 1981. and police are looking for the robber who stabbed a man in montgomery county. police say the attack appears to have been random. the victim was walking down the street yesterday afternoon in the 6300 block of new hampshire avenue in tacoma park, maryland. witnesses tell police the robber approached the victim, who is in his 40s, and demanded his backpack. there was a struggle. the robber pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times. it s crazy. usually not like that around here. it s just like rare because, you know, a lot of people stay to themself and it s real busy. you know, a lot of stores and people coming back and forth. the robber took off with the backpack with a laptop computer inside. police searched nearby streets, wooded areas and even dumpsters but they did not find the robber. the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. howard county police are looking for the person who shot a 15-year-old boy last night. a neighbor found him lying in a field near frederick road and called 911. police say the teen is from baltimore and paramedics flew him to shock trauma, where he is now recovering. a stafford man fought back three intruders during a home invasion. the sheriff s office said the teens rang the doorbell at 2:00 a.m. on tuesday morning at a house on widewater village in stafford. the homeowner answered the door and the teens walked in and held down the man s wife. he fought back injuring two of them. the teens ran off. 18-year-old terry welsh turned himself into custody. one neighbor knew welsh when he was in high school. when i saw him, it was just kind of a big shock. he was a good kid. talented, good wrestler. wrestled well. we never had problems in this neighborhood. it s really scary. deputies arrested two 16 year olds and one suspect is being treated at an area hospital and the other suffered superficial injuries and investigators are looking into whether the teens are connected to a similar crime in that same area. a traffic alert if you plan on heading to the beach today. the bay bridge will shut down in both directions this afternoon. starting at 1:15 the bridge will close for 40 minutes. the closure isn t for anything happening on the bridge, but for something that is going to be traveling under it. a barge carrying four massive 14-story cranes will pass under the bridge clearing it by only four feet. transportation officials are worried that drivers might become detracted by the sight causing slow traffic or even an accident. speaking of traffic, let s look at what s happening out there on the roads right now. here s danella sealock with a look. if you re making your way outbound. in fact, heading towards the bay bridge. let s say you have the day off. great day to geto the beach. here s a live look at the tolls. sandy point toll and no volume at all if you re traveling along route 50. make your way southbound and here s a look at the occoquan nice and clear from beltway to quantico. 62 miles per hour. that drive only taking 24 minutes. barbara, back over to you. danella, thank you. what good is sitting alone in a room, come hear the music play life is a cabaret old chum come to the cabaret first you dream the music of candor and ebb is now playing at the eisenhower theater. two of the stars of the show join us with more on what audiences can expect and thank you so much for coming. thank you. it s my pleasure. i think that was you doing that beautiful song. it s not easy to sing music that others have already made famous. it s been out there for a long time and how did you feel about taking on that song? i was nervous when it was handed to me. i said, no, i don t want to do this because it is so identified with a person and a show. what first to dream does is put new spins on some things you may have already heard. do you put some spins on it? we sure try to. that sounded wonderful. thanks. tell me about, heidi, your songs that you sing. you have a favorite one? i am lucky to get a lot of liza minnelli s material and i m honored to be doing a lot of her material. i m singing maybe this time from cabaret and i have actually sung maybe this time with liza in the wings. i did a benefit years ago, it s very intimidating knowing someone so iconic has put their stamp on this material. the great thing is that we have a brilliant arranger who has really taken these songs and done something magical and he really makes you hear them for the first time. like cabaret everyone knows it as a certain way but matt sings it in a very broken down, different spin on it. there was also, as you were saying, the personality of the person people remembered singing it. do you have to be liza mu nella? i always say, to do this show, i think all of us have to get in touch with our inner liza, with our inner diva because the material, they really, their material is very special and sparkly and grand and you really can t go out there unsure of yourself. you have to really have guts to get out there and take center stage and sell it. tell me about boom diddy boom. this is actually one of the more inventive moments of the show. a song from the show called 70 girl and our musical stager has taken this. it s one lyric in the song and it s repeated over and over for about six minutes. what she s done is created the story of these three couples and seligy we go through the course of a relationship from a meeting to a breakup to a marriage to it s really, really fun. the audience loves it. there s so many other numbers we do in the show and that s the one that always sticks out. is there a story behind it? i know there s wonderful music in the show, but is there a story, too? it s a classic review, so it s not a book musical in a sense that there is a beginning, middle and end where you follow characters. but we do kind of weave threads throughout the songs where it s kind of a baton toss from one song to the next. but it is a very classic review. how do you like being in washington? i love it. i love it. it s my favorite city to be in. heidi and i did the show initially at the signature theater nearly three years ago, much smaller venue. we re happy to be doing it, again, at the kennedy center. but d.c. is just one of the greatest cities. i always performed at ford s theater several years ago. i did a show called meet john doe and this city is just crackling with such talent and it s always a place where new york actors are very drawn to and. i mean, you want to do broadway and you want to do carnegie hall and you want to play the kennedy center. it s a dream come true for us to play there. certainly happy to have you here with us today to talk about this. can t wait to see the show. heidi and matthew, thank you for coming. thank you so much. look forward to catching the show at the kennedy center. running through when? july 1st. it s now 11:43. still ahead on news 4 midday, food fight on the hill? why pizza chains are giving congress a piece of their mind right now. plus, getting out the vote goes wrong. goes wr[ male announcer ] are you paying more and more and more for cable and enjoying it less? 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[ coaster whoosh ] brave the black forest on verbolten. the all-new multi-launch coaster. only at busch gardens. laroche trying to beat the shift. pena, game over and for the nats 0-4 home stand. the once hot nationals are suddenly ice cold. they lost their fourth straight game last night falling to the tampa bay rays. all four of their losses in this streak have come at home to american league teams. they ll try to turn things around, though, against the rays tonight at home. stephen strasburg will be on the mound for the nationals. and you could be seeing some bigger electronic build boar ii. considering a bill that will allow more signs. pushing to update and add new signs to the building, but some community members complained that the signs would be too disruptive. a wrap around sign at the corner of seventh and f streets. he says the signs will emit less light and help generate some much-needed revenue. going to take a look now at some of the stories that we re going to be following for you for news 4 this afternoon. at 4:00 on the first day of summer, many parents getting ready to send their kids off to camp. dr. jackie joins us to let you know what medical things you need to take care of before the kids go. and then tonight at 5:00, the change face of downtown d.c. why the verizon center fighting to transition into the digital age. you ll find out more about that coming up at 5:00. time for the final check of the forecast and here s tom with the bad news about those temperatures out there. it s terrible. we have to respect this heat. this is serious heat, dangerous heat because we re not used to it. there s the thick haze over washington and that s a live view looking into virginia from upper northwest and this thick haze is going to be with us here into the afternoon with high humidity. look at the temperature now, 93 at reagan national here jt before noontime. and the heat index that combination of the humidity and the temperature, it feels like 99 now in washington and it s only going to get worse. the heat index now in frederick is 103. 100 in easton and 103 in aberdeen and we ll have it this way through the afternoon as well as through tomorrow. maybe some storms tomorrow late afternoon but a greater chance of some storms and more clouds around on friday and, as a result, it should be cooler with highs in the low 90s and then, thankfully, a break from the high heat and the high humidity coming into the weekend saturday and sunday highs in the 80s but noticeably much more comfortable with the lower humidity and even cooler than that next week. low humidity and pleasant temperatures for monday and tuesday. highs mid-80s monday and low 80s on tuesday. that s the way it looks right now, we ll be here with frequent updates throughout the afternoon. barbara? stay cool, tom, thank you. we have some breaking news from the penn state sex abuse trial. the defense has rested without jerry sandusky taking the stand. the former coach s wife took the stand yesterday and more character witnesses took the stand on his behalf. sandusky is accused of sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year span. deliberations are expected to begin tomorrow. well, pink was the color of the hour for a very good cause along with more than a dozen of our tv news colleagues hosted a fourth annual news babes bash to fight breast cancer. last night s event was held at the howard theater. the goal is to raise money for the george washington university mammography van. andrea mitchell was the speaker and we thank everyone who helped make it such a great night last night. and that is news 4 midday, we thank you for being with us today and we invite you to join us for news at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and then tonight at 11:00. we ll be back right here tomorrow morning for news 4 midday at 11:00 a.m. hope you plan to join us for that. a lot coming up tomorrow for you. we ll see you then. stay cool, remember, move slowly out there and keep as cool as you can. we ll see you in the morning, 11:00 a.m. have a great day. every driver is different, and we ve got great news for them all. now you can try snapshot from progressive before you switch your insurance. just plug snapshot into your car and drive like you, to see if your good driving could save you up to 30%. so, try the new way to save that s as unique as you are. snapshot only from progressive.
it s near the low to mid 70s near the bay. 60s elsewhere. much of virginia and maryland. much of this area in orange is under a heat advisory from noon to 10:00 p.m. combination of the humidity in the air temperature. going to feel like 100 to 105 mid to late afternoon. eastern and west virginia just about all of maryland. including the district of columbia as well. the heat will be building. got to be in the low to mid 80s by 9:00 by noontime, low 90s. then getting mid and upper 90s mid afternoon. i m back in ten minutes with another update. danella is here now with a look at the update. i-66, live look for you as you make your way eastbound past the rest area. you see more volume than you do westbound. a lot of space between those cars. no major delays. your travel speed from fairfax county parkway to the capital beltway, 60 miles per hour. 11 minutes to make that drive now. continuing on i-66 inside the beltway in both directions, westbound as well as eastbound. very clear. live look at glebe. the b travel from the parkway, 54 miles per hour. that is a 12-minute drive. not bad at all. taking the rails there opening with no reported delays. on over to you. 5:02 is your time. breaking news. a deadly shooting near the intersection of 17th and r streets in southeast washington. news 4 s tracee wilkins is live on the scene with the latest. reporter: looks like we may be dealing with more than a homicide here. police just asked us to move so we re now located farther away than earlier. detectives were investigate this hapt house where the shooting happened just outside of the apartment house. adult male was shot and killed. pronounced dead around 2:45 a.m. as they were making their way inside of the building and beginning to investigate what may be going on inside of that building, they quickly came out of the building and then told us to move at least a block away because they belief that they may be dealing with a possible barricade situation. they would not give us any more information beyond that. we do know that at this point police are not releasing any suspect information. so we know that we have a homicide here. adult male shot and killed. and now a possible barricade situation as police asked us to move back and then they also moved back, as well. they also extended the crime scene tape here to encompass a larger area. we re live on the scene. tracee wilkins, reporting live in southeast, back to eun in the studio. also new this morning, police are investigating a deadly crash in north springfield at the intersection of hinton street. one person died in the accident around midnight. police are not released the victim s name. the cause of the crash is under investigation. today former d.c. council member harry thomas jr. will begin serving his prison sentence. he will report to a minimum security federal prison camp in alabama. he will likely send 2 1/2 years there. back in january he pled guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants that was supposed to go to youth programs. the prince george s councilwoman driving 100 miles per hour on the beltway could be close to losing her license. erin tole is going to court today. fine and six points on her license. she already had two points on her license. that means she could have eight points after this which will begin the process of having her license suspended. toles has apologized and said she was running late for an appointment. in alexandria, a woman is due in court charged with deadly road rage attack. she ran over 21-year-old arrington after an argument on harrison in mt. vernon. she s charge with felony hit and run. arrington was on her way to the hospital to see her mother who is recovering from a stroke. 5:04. breaking news. in iraq, a car bomb exploded killing two people and jiring 16 years. the bomb targeted a judge in downtown kirkuk. police say the bomb went off just as the judge arrived at his office near a police station. the judge and two of his body cars were injured. the explosions also set at least one shop on fire. a house committee could decide today whether to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. the committee s chairman republican darrell issa is upset holder won t hand over documents related to the failed gun smuggling program, fast and furious. even if they vote today to hold holder in contempt of congress, it will still have to pass the full house. this morning trying to figure out how a man wanted for murdering a woman in dewey beach died. 26-year-old kunar was suspected of stabbing danielle. maids found her body in a room monday morning. sources say she was staying in that room with kumar. police launched a manhunt and found his body in a hotel in new jersey. this is first murder in dewey beach since the town was incorporated in 1981. time right now is 5:06. the bounty gate scandal in the nfl is in the spotlight today. a warning this morning about a new drug that promises to give you that perfect tan. plus, new developments involving a costly hoax. what the coastguard is now linking to the search off the jersey shore. 75 degrees and climbing fast. it s only 5:06. i[ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s. my dad and grandfather spent their whole careers here. [ charlie ] we re the heartbeat of this place, the people on the line. we take pride in what we do. when that refrigerator ships out the door, it s us that work out here. [ michael ] we re on the forefront of revitalizing manufacturing. we re proving that it can be done here, and it can be done well. [ ilona ] i came to ge after the plant i was working at closed after 33 years. ge s giving me the chance to start back over. [ cindy ] there s construction workers everywhere. so what does that mean? it means work. it means work for more people. [ brian ] there s a bright future here, and there s a chance to get on the ground floor of something big, something that will bring us back. not only this company, but this country. welcome back. a hoax boat explosion in new jersey that cost the coast guard hundreds of thousands of dollars may be con in ethed to another hoax in texas. emergency crews got a call earlier this month from a boat which reported an explosion off sandy hook, new jersey. they later discovered the call came from land. they say it may have links to a search for the sinking boat in waters last month. coast guard is peshted to release new details in their investigation later today. we ve. talking about it all weekend. and finally we know the heat that dangerous heat is on the way. it s going to be sticky and gross out there. it s already muggy. 75 degrees. tom kierein is in the storm center to tell us all about it. it s not dangerously live yet. that s the live view of the jefferson memorial this morning. we have got a lot of haze around the humidity has been building. not too hot yet. as we look at the temperature nap around region, all the areas in the green are in the 60s. that s pleasant. areas in yellow are 70s. that s right in washington along the potomac and near the bay. we do have a heat advisory in effect from noon to 10:00 p.m. for most of the region. by 9:00, the mid 80s. hazy sunshine, high humidity during the afternoon. in fact, by noontime, the low 90s. ought to be hovering in the mid to upper 90s. mid to late afternoon. and that s when you definitely need to stay in the ac or be in a pool. if you have to be outside, take frequent breaks, get in the shade. drink plenty of water. i ll be back in ten minutes. look at the weekend, too. danella, how s traffic? good morning. looks good along vw parkway or if you re on i-95, nice and clear in maryland. from 216 make your way southbound to the beltway travel lanes are open. driving at 65 miles per hour. connecting to the beltway in montgomery county, irshoe free at this time. on the outer loom, 61 miles per hour. back over to you both. one last chance for the defense to put jerry sandusky on the stand. also ahead, fighting back. one passenger surprising one passenger surprising response after havin we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don t know where to start. glad you found us. start by test-driving nearly every make and model, all in one place. carmax. start here. welcome back. maybe he should have just walked away. coming up this morning. new york city police confirm they are investigating allegations alec baldwin assaulted a photographer. daily news photographer said baldwin shoved and punched him outside the studio. baldwin came after him when he tried to get a picture of the actor and fiance. on twitter baldwin suggested that paparazzi should be, quote, waterboarded. he also later tweeted, quote, i suppose if the offending of paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and i shot him it would all blow over. no charges have been filed against baldwin at this time. one woman is fighting back against an airport security pat down. check this out. carol price says she was going through security in ft. myers, florida, when she was groped by a tsa agent. but instead of filing a complaint, she puts down her bags and gropes back. price said she did to it show the agent what she had just been through. her lawyers say that the agent was not following protocol and price should know. price is a former tsa agent herself who worked at that very airport until a few years ago. she s obviously been through training. and knew this lady. she did not touch the supervisor as intrusively as she was touched. price admits she was emotional that day. she was on her way to her brother s funeral. she was removed from her flight and now faces misdemeanor battery charges. the defense in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial is expected to rest today. if sandusky is going to take the stand in his own defense it will happen this morning. former coach s wife took the stand yesterday. she told jurors that she never saw or heard any inappropriate contact between sandusky@and boys who stayed at their home. dottie sandusky also contradi contradicted one accuser who claimed he yelled for help saying the room he claimed to be in was not sound proof. sandusky is accuse of sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year span. deliberations is expected to dlin tomorrow. developing story in egypt this morning. state television there is reporting that former president hosni mubarak is on life support following a stre ing ing a stro. initial reports said the 84-year-old was dead when moved to a military facility. now medical staff describe his condition as very critical. mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in mass killings. news of his failing health comes in a debate over who will succeed mubarak. results from last weekend s presidential election are schedule to be announced tomorrow. president obama is back in washington this morning. he arrived over night from the g-20 summit in mexico. the president told reporters he is confident europe wean leaders will be able to solve their economic crisis. he admitted if europe s finances do not improve our country s economic recovery could lag. he also meet with rush sh sha and chinese leaders at the summit. he said that neither agreed to stop the violence in syria. and for the first time mitt romney is talking about potential running mates. presumptive republican presidential candidate says his campaign is vetting florida congressman marco rubio me made the revelation yesterday while campaigning many michigan. it was the final stop on his five-day bus tour through six battleground states. romney was denying a report from earlier in the day that his campaign had ruled out rubio as a running mate. a new warning this morning about a new drug that claims to give you the perfect dan. melotan is only sold online. claims to create tan that lasts for months, increase your sex tan and helps you lose weight. doctors say the drug is not approved by the fd ashs and is concerned the synthetic hormone could stimulate the same cells that cause skin cancer. new study find men need a new lesson in skin care. nearly half the men said they never use sunscreen. experts say men 50 years old and older are more than twice as likely as women to develop and die from skin cancer. nearly 3/4 said they do not know what to look for when it comes to suspicious spots on their skin. this morning we are getting an up close look at the massive wildfire in colorado as a family left their home. take a look. this video shows the destruction from earlier this month. a couple grabbed what they could and drove to a safer place. the fire has burned more than 59,000 acres. it is now 55% contained. terrible situation out there. incredible video, too. we know the heat is going to be on. that s right. heat, humidity, not it s humid but not quite dangerous yet. but it s getting there, tom. it s only going to last a couple of days, thankfully. just today and again tomorrow. there is the washington monument. live picture. you see there s hardly any wind at all. the flags are hanging limply there. and we ve got deep high pressure over the region. that s going to be helping this heat to build by later this afternoon. it s only going to last a couple of days thankfully. right now, hazy and humid. temperatures near 70 throughout most of the region. we do have a heat advisory. noon to 10:00 p.m. all the counties in orange. northern virginia. eastern, western virginia. heat index, combination of temperature and humidity will be 100 to 105. that s what it will feel like to mid to late afternoon. stay inside if you can. stay in the ac as we soar to the upper 90s by mid afternoon to late afternoon. near record heat today and again tomorrow. hazy, hot, and humid on thursday. highs again upper 90s. and there is about a 30% chance of some scattered afternoon storms tomorrow. then a likelihood on that on friday. and with more clouds around even though it s still going to be humid, i doubt it s going to be nearly as hot. highs may be reaching low 90s. by then, scattered thunderstorms around that may linger into friday evening and end early saturday morning. after that, just in time for your weekend, lower humidity moves in for saturday, sunday, and in the first part of next week, along with thankfully cooler temperatures. danella, good morning. good morning. checking things out if your you if you re traveling 295 in the district. northbound at the 11th street bridge we had construction there. overnight but all your lanes are open. it s out of the roadway. let s take a look a 395. nice and clear from the beltway to the 149 street bridge in this area. a life look as you make your way past. nice and clear. northbound no issues. southbound as well. northbound does have a little more volume than southbound but look at this travel speed. 60 miles per hour. about 12 minutes to get from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. not bad at all. also if you re taking the i ll ras not seeing any reported delays along the metro, marc, or vre, all running on or close to schedule. thank you. nfl commissioner roger goodell is in washington today. he will be joined by senator dick durbin at a news conference focused on the bounty scandal recently uncovered. players and coaches for the new orleans saints were suspended after the league accused the team of awarding players with cash for big hits on the field. goodell and durbin are expected to skisz reforms. nifty pickup, pena, game over. and for the nats, 0-4, home stand. lost their fourth game in a row. all four of their loss necessary this streak have come at home to american league teams. they will try to turn things around against the rays at home again tonight. there was a bit of a controversy during last night s games. umpires ejected ray s pitcher when they found a foreign substance on his glove during the eighth eveni inning. he was still warming up when the umps started examining the glove. he is quite familiar with the per ral a. he discussed the ejikz after the game. well, he pitched here. you know, i mean, i don t think it s a secret. i don t know. spring training or during the year. i mean, there s been some chirping about pine tar. yeah, i didn t just make it up or dream it up, you know. peralta may not be back on the mound for quite some time. he could be suspended for this incident. turning to basketball. lebron james and miami heat are just one win away from an nba title. they beat the oklahoma city thunder 104-98 in game four of the league finals. the heat now holds a 3-1 lead in the series. washington native kevin durant scored 28 points in the loss for the thunder. the heat will try to close out the series tomorrow night at home. today the white house will mark the 40th anniversary of title ix. the landmark law signed in 1972 banned sex discrimination and pushed for equal funding in school sports. the white house council on women and girls will host on event this afternoon recognizing the ran versery. very significant for women around gir and girls in sports. hard to believe, 40 years. speaking of women, though, powerful women in washington came together last night. pink was the color of the hour and for a good cause. angie and i along with a dozen of our colleagues hosted the fourth annual news bash to fight breast cancer. last night s event was at the howard theater. the goal was to raise money for the george washington university. breast cancer survivor andrea mitchell from nbc was our special guest speaker. thanks to everyone who made it such a great night. we really approaeciate your support. angie is so inspiring. and she just workseses, works, works, through all of it. through the campaign and the primaries. it was a lot of fun. appreciate your support so much. time right now, 5:25. coming up, we re tracking breaking news out of southeast washington after a man is shot to death. plus, city leaders are ready to weigh in on a plan to brighten up the outside of the verizon center. it s not even 5:30 and we re seeing temperatures in the mid 70s. 70s. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird told me about a band. an old man shared some fish stories. oooh, my turn. she was in paris, but we talked for hours. everyone else buzzed about the band. there s a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? looking at the stories make headlines right now, at 5:28. people around the district, dangerous heat. what police are telling us about the shooting death of a man in a live report coming up. and former d.c. council member harry thomas jr. we ll have much more along these stories. first, good morning to you. welcome to news4 today on this wednesday, june 20th. brace yourself for the warm-up. we re already in the mid 70s. it s only going to get hotter. such a pretty shot outside. yet it s going to be steamy a little bit later on. isn t that right, tom? that s for sure. right now we ve got the high humidity. it s really kind of pleasant. not bad. temperatures in the 70s. we have had this really deep high pressure over the midwest the last few days. we ve had temperatures well into the 90s. it s drifting right over us. as a result, we are going to have that big heat building here. right now, though, it s pleasant. all the areas in the green are in the 60s. that includes much of the region. areas in yellow are in the low to mid 70s. tidal potomac and near the bay. generally in the 60sthis morning. apparently pleasant. later today, noon to 10:00 p.m. is when we have a heat advisory. all the counties in orange, east virginia, the district of columbia. the heat index, the combination of the air temperature and humidity will be 100 to 105. that is dangerous heat. you need to stay in the ac. it is going to be near record heat, too. reagan national airport. record high for this day for june 20th back in 1931 was 99 degrees. and on thursday, 98 in 1988. near those record highs later this afternoon and again tomorrow with the high humidity in place. and some precautionary words from our reporter, melissa mollet about how to deal with this. good morning, melissa. reporter: good morning, tom. i can tell you you want to dress lightly. bring a lot of water no matter where you are going today. we ve been out here this morning looking for some joggers, looking for bikers perhaps, who are out here kind of trying to beat the heat and be out here a bit early. we have one coming behind us here right now. and some couple minutes ago. now, as tom s been telling us, it is expected to be the hottest day of the year so far. 98. it s going to feel like 105. now, believe it or not, heat is the number one weather killer. days like today, it s especially important to check on neighbors without ac and remember the young and elderly cannot regulate their body heat. so that s important thing to think about today. as i mentioned, we talked to some joggers with the cyclists about how they plan to stay cool today. take a listen. i work at the ronald reagan building. to mitt tate the heat, we ve turned on thehaust fans to keep them running all day instead of part-time early in the morning. just take it easy. drink a ton of at water. on i know on my bike ride home, be inside but afterwards it s going to drink a ton of water and take it easy on the ride back. reporter: very good idea. the thing to do today, of course, as i said, dress as lightly as possible and bring as much water as you can. back to you. melissa mollet, reporting live. thank you for that report. good morning. angie, if you re traveling i-66 and make yurg way westbound, jammed, this is because of late clearing construction. i can tell you at cedar lane only the right lane was getting by. driving single file. watching the cameras in that area. the cones are in the process of being picked up at this very minute. hopefully you will see some relief pretty soon. for now, you are jammed at galos road along i-66. let s head over to the american legion bridge. making your way on the outer loop as well as the inner loop of the beltway. eun, over to you. police are surpding a neighborhood looking for the gunman responsible for deadly shooting earlier this morning near 17th and r streets in southwest august. tracee wilkins is live on the scene with breaking new developments. what s going on? reporter: let me show you right now where the detectives are positions here. they are about a block away from the house where this shooting happened. they are standing there behind that police vehicle. we have seen some uniformed officers approach the house but let me show you what they armed themselves with just a little while ago before they did that. this is video of tse officers retrieving their rifles before going closer to the scene and going closer to that house. let me explain to you exactly what s happened up to this point. around 2:45 a.m. a man was pronounced dead after he was shot outside an apartment house here at 17th and r streets and southea southeast. now, i spoke to one young lady who was theres that happened. she said that there was a crowd of people outside the house and that a man approached what appeared to be a long black something. turns out that something was a gun. that s what that man used to shoot and kill this adult male who died on the scene earlier this morning. now, police were investigating here just a little while ago. it looked like they were getting to the point where they could stap start to wrap up the investigation when they quickly moved away from the apartment house and then asked us to also move away. so we moved away a couple of blocks and detectives moved away. they re now positioned behind that vehicle. they say that that may be dealing with the possible barricade situation here. we don t have any more situation than that. the investigation unstill unfolding. police say a man and robbed and stabbed in a ran dam attack in montgomery county. the victim was walking down the street yesterday afternoon in new hampshire avenue and maryland. witnesses tell police the robber approached the victim who was in his 40s and demanded his backpack. there was a struggle. the robber pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times. crazy. it s usually not like this around this area. you know what i m saying? it s pretty cool out here. you know what i m saying? this is like rare because a lot of people stay to themselves and it s real busy. a lot of stores and people coming back and forth. the robber took off with the backpack with a laptop computer inside. police searched nearby streets, wooded areas and even dumpsters but they did not find the robber. the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. howard county police are looking for the person who shot a 5-year-old boy last night. a neighbor found him lying in a field near frederick road and called 911. police say the teen is from baltimore. paramedics flew him to shock trauma where he is now recovering. police in fredericksburg open a picture taken from an atm camera will help them track down a purse snatcher. he tried to use the woman s credit card several times and finally succeeded at an atm machine where this picture was taken. the victim s purse was grabbed while trying to help a homeless man who was bleeding. the injured man was later charged with destruction of property for breaking a window. it happened earlier this month on princess ann street near the fredericksburg post office. the motion to set aside a negligence verdict against virginia tech. jurors ruled school officials waited too long to alert students of the shootings five years ago. families of two students killed say they could have survived if they were warned sooner. jurors awarded $8 million to those families. news 4 sources confirm d.c. mayor vin vent gray s choice to leave the district s housing agency was involved in a relationship with a senior staff enwhen he led a similar agency in philadelphia. sources tell news 4 that michael kelly disclosed the relationship to mayor gray before he was tapped to head d.c. s department of housing and community development. gray s office cleared the appointment with the federal housing and urban development. kelly is not under investigation or facing any misconduct charges but does acknowledge he had an inappropriate affair outside of his marriage. kelly s nomination is subject to confirmation by the d.c. council. today the d.c. council will consider a new proposal that would allow the verizon center to add more electronic billboards. owner has been pushing the couldn council for months to allow them to update and add new signs to the building. some members complain the signs would be disruptive. the bill would allow nine new signs to go up. it would add a wrap around sign at the corner along with new signs at the especially trabs to the metro. he says the signs will emitt less light and they will help generate much needed revenue. the work group discussing expanded gambling in maryland could decide today whether to advise governor martin o malley to call a special session to take up the issue. the group will meet today in annapolis. its members are hammering out details of an expanded gambling bill that legislation could include legalized table games and plans for a new casino in prince george s county. it claims a full service casino near the national harbor could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the state. and we re looking at 5:38. a frantic plea for help. he s at the bottom of the swimming pool. please hurry up. please, please, please. what the 911 tapes are revealing about the death of rodney king. plus, how maryland is honoring the life of a marine killed while serving in afghanistan. we re already in the 70s outside and things are going to heat up fast. we have more about near record temperatures n [linkin park burn it down ] [rock] [narrator] can t wait for the honda civic tour featuring linkin park? neither can we. go to facebook.com/hondacivictour for details. try new cortizone-10 quick shot. fast relief with the strongest, nonprescription itch medicine in a no-mess spray. cortizone-10 quick shot. yeah, these are the dog days of summer. live picture of a couple of dogs drinking water. don t forget to take care of your pet today. give them plenty of water. keep them out of the heat. and it s pleasant now though to walk the dog. right now it s in the upper 60s to low and mid 70s throughout the region. 75 now at reagan national. rather humid this morning. as we go through the day, hometown forecast croft on the on the prince george s s line. right now it s in the low 70s there. mid mid morning, near 80. noontime, 90s. hitting the mid or upper 90s by mid to late afternoon. a break coming for the weekend. seven-day outlook comes for ten minutes. as you make your way westbound, it was jammed. out of the roadway. another look at your traffic back over to you both. 74 degrees. another potential setback for metro and construction of the second phase of the dulles rail project. plus, the mistake by one organization that gave one virginia this morning investigators are looking into whether three teens accuse of a home invasion in stafford county are connected to a similar crime in the area. the sheriff s office says the teens rang the doorbell at 2:00 a.m. tuesday morning at a house in white water village in stafford. the homeowner opened the door and the teens walked in and held down the man s wife. he fought back youring two of them. the teens ran off. terry welch turned himself in. one neighbor newell ch when he was in high school. when i was saw him it was a big shock. he was a good kid. talented, good wrestler. deputies arrested two 16-year-olds, one suspect is being treated at an area hospital. the other suffered superficial injuries. five more break-ins had been linked to a pair of thieves targeting a germantown neighborhood. police say the duo has now hit a total of 23 homes near clopper road. they happened while the families were inside their homes. this is surveillance video from may 23rd. it slows one of the burglars. if you recognize this man, call police. police say the thieves are going after homes with its doors unlocked or garage door open. they say the burglars are also breaking into cars. he s at the bottom of the swimming pool. please hurry up, please, please, please. she said she heard something fall like the table and looked over and found king at the bottom of his swimming pool in the california home. police found no signs of foul play and continue to investigate his death as an accidental drowning. king s taped police beating in los angeles sparked the l.a. riot when s jurors acquitted three officers. the case against a fout officer ended in a mistrial. king was 47 years old. a u.s. military investigation is is not recommending criminal charges after the burning of korans in afghanistan. pentagon officials say a navy service member and six soldiers could face administrative punishments and no judicial action. february s incident sparked large protest outside a military base in afghanistan. more than 30 people died. military officials have said the service members did not know they were burning the muslim holy book. afghan members recovered the korans before they were destroyed. today, flags in maryland will fly at half staff in honor of julian chase. he was killed in combat on memorial day in afghanistan. the 22-year-old lived in edge water. maryland lawmakers are looking into a recent court of appeals decision that ruled pit bull owners can be liable for dog bites. the controversial ruling deemed pit bulls inherently dangerous, making owners and landlords liable for dog bites. animal right groups want lawmakers to take a bite out of the legislation. groups on both sides of the issue spoke at a task force hearing studying the breed in annapolis. we re mystified that other animal welfare organizations don t see how this law will protect dogs and can only benefit them by causing people to better care for them. it s very unkor fate they the negative stereotypes get out and people listen to the media and that s puts the fear in the people of these dogs. reality, they re friendly. the ruling came from a case when a pit bull attacked a 10-year-old dominique in the baltimore area. virginia governor bob mcdonnell is speaking out for the first time about the controversial oweser of the university of virginia s president. mcdonnall says the school s board of visitors should have been more open with the community after they forced sullivan out of office before two years on the job. many uva professors are also refusing to work with the college s interim president carl zeithaml. one professor even resigned. d.c. council member marion barry is going to fight the street car line on h street. barry says the plan is not well thought out and too expensive for the number of riders it will serve. the project is estimated to cost around 200 million dollars. if approved, the street car line should open next year. providing transit funding to local government is turning political in northern virginia. state officials plan on giving money directly to the governments instead of going to the northern virginia transportation commission. under the old 30-year-old system cities and counties requesting money from the state for a number of projects. the state then gave the money to the mvtc to give monte to local dpofts. state officials say the new system will provide more clarity to where the money is going the local officials say the state is trying to flex its muscle. a maryland woman is on a mission to uncover history at a cemetery in montgomery county. peggy erickson is trying to identify tombstones. she works with the montgomery county historical society. the cemetery has 80 unmarked graves dating back to the 100s. she says many soldiers fought in the civil war and educated in massachusetts. 18-year-old harness maker or weaver, leaving children behind. and young men, harvard law school and came down here and fought. others would become famous. montgomery county historical society started investigating at the cemetery during research for a video about poolsville. erickson hopes to map out the cemetery with the help of an archaeologist and infrared cameras. it is that going to be a task. indeed. > talking about the weather. you talked about the mini heat wave. tom is here to tell us all about it. mini heat wave. thank goodness it s all going to last a couple of days. the sun is about to appear. look at that thick haze. right there lincoln memorial. that is a live view from the mall in washington on this wednesday morning. there is the sun rise over the potomac river. the sun has been up now. sun rise is at 5:43. it s still obscured by clouds on the eastern horizon. reagan national, dew point, steamy 70 degrees. we ve got a wind out of the south just very gentle. only about three miles an hour. look at this mama osprey feeding her chicks. this is a great feet to sent in by edite. send your photos to weather@nbcwashington.com or post them to our facebook page and we ll share them. much of the region. near the waters though. low to mid 70s. that includes potomac around reagan national and around the bay. under a heat advisory. noon to 10:00 p.m. because the heat index, combination of temperature and humidity is going to exceed 100 degrees during a time in the afternoon hours. all the counties in orange, including eastern and west virginia. just about all of maryland. and for you day, by noontime, in fact, will already likely be around 90 degrees. hazy sunshine. high humidity throughout the rest of the afternoon. highs reaching mid and upper 90s. 99 set on june 20th. today and again tomorrow. thunder showers giving us relief. and then the likelihood on that on friday. more clouds around and cooler. the weekending looking terrific. lower humidity. cooler temperatures. that s going to linger into next week. nice break coming our way. checking out things around i-95 in virginia. northbound stafford. delays continue to quantico. then it s not so bad. look at dumfries. nice and clear. northbound and southbound. continuing past fairfax county parkway. your travel speed, not bad. 55 miles per hour. 25 minutes from quantico and the beltway. eun, over to you. some loudon county leaders say they need more time to discuss whether to expend metro s new silver line into their county. county supervisors want to put off a vote on whether to opt into phase two of the silver line project until december 1st. they say they will use that extense to find a strategy for paying for the project and to receive feedback from the public. as of now the county s board of supervisors must decide on the project by july 4th. the vote has been floating along the georgetown segment of the canal for three decades but it failed safety insections. the national parks service says the cost to remarry it is too expensive. the final farewell to the georgetown will be next wednesday at 5:00 p.m. then it will be moved and demolished at fletcher s cove. this is the 19th year our station has run the camp for kids program with the community foundation for the national capital region. nbc 4 president and general manager and sponsor ron green down presented this year s donations to the campers. i like camp ground because you get to do a lot of fun things that you wouldn t they wouldn t normally do in d.c. i ve been going to this for three years now. i was originally diagnosed with leukemia in august of 2008. it s a great experience to just go out there and be a regular kid. today we raised half a million dollars for area camps. you can still help donate online by going to our website and click on camp for kids. ree just philbin and kathie lee gifford will co-host together for the first time in 12 years on this morning s today show. philbin and gifford used to co-host live with regis and kathie lee together. he left in 2000. he recently left the show as well. the pair will first talk to matt lauer and then cohost the fout hour of today. that starts at 10:00 a.m. right here on nbc4. a dog in greenville, south carolina, was just voted bad to the bone in the first of its kind contest. the 11-month-old huskie mix lucy was anything named the destroyer. the owner says she has bad chewing habits and she chewed through her metal crate at six years old. now camp bow-wow will train lucy for free for the next year. her behavior is typical for puppies. there are plenty of methods to train her or another dog. she s just a puppy. it s hard to say she s a bad dog. it s great that they re doing the training right now because they say do it while they re young. and huskies, they can be a little feisty. they have a find of their own. nice dogs. but nice dogs and beautiful. absolutely beautiful. a man in southwestern virginia got a voter registration application in the mail. here s the problem though. it was addressed to the family s dog that died two years ago. tim morris says the document notified mo morris that he was eligible to vote and should register. the dog niece name was no sarlt and the family do not know how it happened but it came from a private not for profit group. the group admits that sometimes it makes mistakes. i m sure it was an honest mess take. probably did some sort of profile search and found out family members including mo the dog. profile search, we were talking to tom about this earlier, he was saying they probably got the information off of facebook or something like that. closely guarded information that mitt romney let slip. update on breaking news in a local neighborhood. the s.w.a.t. team just arrived. and dangerous heat on the way. today the official start of summer. trust us when we say you will
mini heat wave. mini is the key word because it s only going to last a couple of days. yesterday afternoon it was in the upper 80s. today we may be ten degrees hotter than yesterday. look at this broad area in orange. that s the heat advisory zone. covers most of northern virginia. covers parts of eastern west virginia as well as much of maryland and the district of columbia. the heat index, that s how the air feels with the humidity factored in. it s doing to be over 100 by mid afternoon. the record highs today. we will be near record heat. 99 in 1931 on this date was the record high. the record high for thursday is 98 setback in 1988. we re going to be near record highs for today and again tomorrow. nowing looking at what s been happening over the last 12 hours. we ve had a generally clear sky but it s hazy. we ve got patchy fog, especially in parts of virginia and around southern maryland where temperatures are in the low 70s. 75 at reagan national. low to mid 70s near the bay waters. away from the waters hovering around 70 for most of the region. out of the mountains, 60s. it will heat up rapidly. by 9:00 we ought to be in the mid 80s. and then by noontime the low 90s and then soaring to the upper 90s by mid afternoon. that is when you need to stay in the ac or get to a pool. definitely have to be outside, take frequent breaks. take time in the shade and drink plenty of water. i ll be back in ten minutes with another update. got to gv you an alert. in beltway making your way by new hampshire avenue, no accidents but someone hit a skunk. very smelly, very hot. let s head over to road work in virginia. i got to look out for you any way i can. traveling, taking the beltway. the ramp to the beltway to the dulles toll road is shut down due to road work there. also seeing road work, this time the ramp to little river turnpike is closed from the inner loop of the beltway in that area. also seeing road work. shutting down the ramp to route 123 from the outer loop of the beltway. traveling along route 50 again today eastbound, you re going to be forced to get in the left lane because of road work there. but you r volume is very light. d.c. police are on the scene of a deadly shooting. let s go to tracee wilkins on the scene to find out what happened. reporter: good morning. police are holding the scene here in southeast. as you can we see, detectives are here, plain clothes officers are also here, along with uniformed officers trying to figure out what happened here. they say an adult male was shot there. he was transported to the hospital. where he was of pronounced dead. at this point they don t have any suspect information. they re still trying to figure out exactly what led to this shooting. they ve been on the scene all morning here trying to figure this out. we re going to be here them as they continue this investigation. thank you. a major traffic alert for drivers headed to the beach today. the bay bridge will shut down in both directions this afternoon. starting at 1:15 the bridge will close for about 40 minutes. the closure is not for anything happening on the bridge but for something traveling under it. a barge carrying four massive 14-story cranes will pass under the bridge, clearing it by only four feet. transportation officials were worried drivers might become distracted by the site, causing slow traffic or an accident. the defense in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial is expected to rest today. if sandusky is going to take the stand in his own defense, it will happen this morning. the former coach s wife took the stand yesterday. she told jurors she never saw or heard any appropriate inappropriate contact between sandusky and the boys who stayed at their home. dottie sandusky also contradicted one accuser who claimed he yelled for help, saying the room he claimed to be in was not sound proof. sandusky is accused of abusing ten boys over a 15-year span. this morning police are looking for a man who robbed and stabbed a guy who was walking down the street. it appears to be a random attack. there was a bloody scene yesterday afternoon in the 63,000 block of new hampshire avenue in tacoma park, maryland. witnesses tell police the robber approached the victim who was in his 40s, demanding his backpack. there was a struggle. the robber pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times. crazy. it s usually not like this around this area. you know what i m saying? it s pretty cool out here. you know what i m saying? this is like rare because a lot of people stay to themselves and it s real busy. a lot of stores and people coming back and forth. the robber took off with the backpack with a laptop computer inside. police searched nearby streets, wooded areas and even dumpsters but they did not find the robber. the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. this morning we re trying to learn more about how a man wanted for murdering a woman in dewey beach died. 26-year-old kumar was suspected of stabbing danielle. maids at the atlantic ocean side motel found his body in a room monday morning. sources say she was staying in the room with kumar. they found his body in a hotel in new jersey. this is the first murder in dewey beach since the town was incorporated in 1981. howard county police are looking for the person who shot a 15-year-old boy last night. they were found him lying in a field near frederick road and called 911. he is recovering. news 4 sources confirm that d.c. mayor vincent gray s choice to lead the district s housing agency was involved in rael relationship with a senior staffer when he recently led a a agency in philadelphia. michael kelly disclosed the relationship to mayor gray before he was topped to the housing and community development. gray s office cleared the appointment. kelly is not under investigation or facing any misconduct charges but does acknowledge he had an inappropriate affair outside of his marriage. kelly s nomination is set to confirmation by the d.c. council. mitt romney is denying reports he s ruling out marco rubio as a running mate. romney said he is vetting the congressman. this is the first time he has confirmed his campaign has vetted anyone. romney set the record straight about rubio while campaigning in michigan. it was final stop on his five-day bus tour through six battleground states. and while you were sleeping, president obama arrived back in washington from the g-20 summit in mexico. the president told reporters yesterday that he is confident european leaders will be able to solve their economic crisis. he admitted if europe s finances don t improve, our country s economic recovery may lag, and that could impact his re-election prospects. president obama also met with russian and chinese leaders while at the summit. he said neither country agreed to work with the u.s. and other countries to stop the violence in syria. today the d.c. council will consider a new proposal to add electronic billboards to the bryson center. owner has been pushing the council for months to allow the venue to update and add new signs to the building. some community members have complained that the signs would be disruptive. the bill would allow as many as nine new signs to go up. a wrap around sign at the corner of 7th and f streets. along with the new signs of the entrance at the metro. the signs will emitt light and hope to generate much needed revenue. a frantic plea for help in the death of rodney king. he s at the bottom of the swimming pool. please hurry up. please, please, please. what 911 tapes are revealing about his death. plus, a new warning from police about a series of break-ins in one maryland community. we are already in the 70s outside. days are going to heat up fast. tom has more of that. near record temp pop goes the world it goes something like this everybody here is a friend of mine everybody, tell me, have you heard? pop goes the world pop goes the world [ female announcer ] pop in a whole new kind of clean with new tide pods. a powerful three-in-one detergent that cleans, brightens, and fights stains. pop in. stand out. breezy, warm, and humid on this wednesday morning. good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein with your weather and your traffic on the ones. coming up now at 4:41 in the morning, temperatures are already right around the low to mid 70s across most of virginia, maryland, and into west virginia and western maryland is in the 60s now. we do have a heat advisory. all these keens in orange, including much of the region for high heat, heat index, 105. air temperatures approaching upper 90s by later this afternoon. we will have it into the low 90s by noontime. mid and upper 90s mid afternoon. how long will it last? we ll look at the rest of the weekend and the weekend with your seven-day outlook coming up in ten minutes. good morning. if you re traveling on 295 northbound in the district at the 11th street bridge, northbound lanes are blocked for up to 30 minutes at a time. that looks to be in the final stages. southbound at last check had just one lane blocked in that area. i-95 in virginia. nice and clear. your travel lanes are open in both directions. really light volume in this area. back over to you. thanks. it is 4:43. 74 degrees. still to come, more fallout at the university of virginia. plus, another potential delay in the second phase please hurry up. please, please, please. rodney king, the guy that got beat by the police. okay. how old is he? he s 47 years old. he s not moving. he s at the bottom of the swimming pool. we are hearing the frantic 911 call made by rodney king s fiance cynthia kelly. she tells dispatchers she was sleeping and all of a stud den she heard something fall, like the table. then she looked over and found king at the bottom of the swimming pool in his california home. police found no signs of foul play and continue to invest gate his death as a accidental drowning. king s taped police beating in los angeles sparked the l.a. riots when jurors acquitted three officers. the case against the fourth officer ended in a mistrial. king was 47 years old. we are following a developing story in egypt. former president hosni mubarak is on life support after he had a stroke in prison. initial reports said the 84-year-old was dead when moved to a military facility. now medical staff describe his condition as very critical. mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in mass killings. news of his failing health comes in a debate over who will succeed mubarak. results from last weekend s presidential election are schedule to be announced tomorrow. the u.s. military investigation is not recommending criminal charges after the burnings of korans in afghanistan. pentagon officials say a navy service member and six soldiers could face administrative punishments and no judicial action. february s incident sparked large protests outside a military base in afghanistan. more than 30 people died. military officials have said the service members did not know they were burning the muslim holy book. afghan workers recovered the korans before they were destroyed. police have linked five more burglaries to a pair of thieves targeting a germantown neighborhood. montgomery county police say the duo has now hit a total of 23 homes near clop er road. this is surveillance video from may 23rd. it shows one of the luburglars. if you recognize this man, call police. police say the thieves are going after homes with the doors unlocked or the garage door open. they say the burglars are also breaking into cars. this morning three teens are accused of a home invasion in stafford county. the sheriff s office say the teens rang the doorbell at 2:00 in the morning on tuesday at a house in white water village in stafford. the teens helped down the victim s wife while forced the man to show them the valuables. deputies stay homeowner fought back, injuring two when he wrestled the knife from the intruders. the teens ran off and deputies arrested two of them who are both 16. the third, 18-year-old terry welch, turned himself in. one neighbor newell ch when he was in high school. when i saw him it was kind of a big shock. he was a good kid. talented, good wrestler. wrestled well. we never had problems in this neighborhood. it s really scary. investigators are also looking into whether the teens are connected to another home invasion in that neighborhood. virginia governor bob mcdonnell is speaking out for first time about the controversial ouster of the university of virginia s president. mcdonnell said the school s board of visitors should have been more open with the community when it forced teresa sullivan from office after less than two years on the job. the board s vice rekter mark kington stepped down yesterday as a result of the controversy. they are refusing to work with the college s interim president ken zeithaml. the group met monday and could decide today whether to advise the governor to call a special session next month to take up the issue. it could include legalized table gl games. new study claims a full service casino near the national harbor could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars eemp year for the state. d.c. council member marion barry is fighting the street car line on h street according to the washington post. barry says the plan is not well thought out and too expensive for the number of riders it would serve. the pro sect is estimated to cost around $200 million. if approved, the street car line should open next year. we may now have to wait until december to find out whether metro s new silver line will extend into loudon county. three loudon county supervisors want to put off a vote on whether to opt into face two of the silver line project until december 1st. they say they need more time to find a strategy for paint for the project and receive feedback from the public. as of now they must decide on the project by july 4th. starting at 12:01 tomorrow morning, a taxi ride in the district will be cheaper. the $1 per trip fuel charge they have been collecting from passengers for the past 16 months expires at midnight because of falling gas prices. the taxi cab commission which meets today says it will continue to monitor fuel prices throughout the summer, so we ve got gas prices falling and temperatures rising. always good news when you can get a cheaper cab ride around here. that s right. we re talking about record heat. meteorologist tom kierein here is tell us more about it. make sure your a.c. is working. the repairmen will be busy today. high demand for air conditioning. right now there is haze over the washington monument. you can see that there. certainly looking like a mid summer hazy morning. 75 at reagan national. dew point is a steamy 70. whenever that dew point is up at 70 that s when you notice it s sweltering humidity. we ve got a light southerly breeze. we ve got a large area of high pressure. deep high pressure sitting over the region giving us a clear sky now over the haze. it is very deep high pressure building heat is likely later this afternoon. but right now it s pleasant. we re in the 70s. even a few locations in the 60s. these areas in green, eastern shore, as well as out in the mountains. later today we will soar into the 90s. in fact, the heat index, that s that combination of humidity and heat. it s going to make it feel like 100, to 105 by mid to late afternoon. all of the countys in orange. eastern and western virginia, under this heat advisory. runs from noon to 10:00 p.m. how hot? well, record heat. reagan nationals is 9 s9 set in 1931. we re going to be near the record highs both days. hometown forecast for manassas, it s going to be near 80 by 9:00 in prince william county. by noontime, low 90s hitting the mid to upper 90s mid afternoon. later this evening, by midnight this time tomorrow morning. the mid 70s. more of the same tomorrow. we might get an afternoon thunderstorm. and then a afternoon and evening thunderstorm on friday. thankfully that will cool it down. over the weekend, low humidity. highs 80s. mid week next week, highs only near 80 with low humidity. good morning. if you re traveling along i-270 checking thing out for you in that area. nice and clear, in fact. from clarksburg in both directions. you re clear. not seeing any road work. you can see here, a life look at shady grove. quite nicely. and as you connect to the beltway, i ll show you what that looks like. taking the beltway i-270 heading on the inner loop to i-95. travel speeds, driving at 61 miles per hour right now. taking ten minutes to get from i-270 to i-95. in fact, i m back in ten minutes with a look at your rails. angie and eun, over to you. a dog in greenville, south carolina, was just voted bad to the bone in the first of its kind contest. i wonder he gets to wear a leather jacket. now trainer has the daunting task of trying to tape the worst dog in the country. 11-year-old husky mix named lucy is anything named she looks fine. her nickname is the destroyer. her owners say she has bad chowing habits. she even chewed through her metal crate when she was 6 months old. now camp bow-wow will train her for three faux six months. there are plenty of methods to train her or any dog that needs a little discipline. 11 months old, it s not her fault. huskies have a find of their own. but they make nice pets. sticking with my lab. it s now 4:54. 75 degrees. more trouble with his temper. coming up, the potential criminal charges now facing 30 rock star alec baldwin. the push by a local woman to try and honor the lives of dozen of civil war soldiers. the mistake that the historic canal boat, georgetown will soon take the final voyage. the boat has been plofloating ag the canal for three decades but it failed safety inspections. the national parks service says the cost to repair the boat is too expensive so they decided to permanently take it out of service. if final farewell to the georgetown will be next wednesday at 5:00 p.m. and then removed and demolished at fletcher s cove. a maryland woman is on a discovery mission at a cemetery in montgomery county. peggy erickson is trying to identify tombstones. she works with the historical socie society. the cemetery has 80 unmarked graves. she says many were soldiers who fought in the civil war. it was a small town, 350 people. they had 15,000 soldiers here. we were really a very important linchpin in the defense of washington. the montgomery county historical society started investigating at the cemetery during research for a video about poolsville. erickson hopes to map out the cemetery with the help of an archaeologist and train red cameras. big undertaking. historical significance there. really interesting. a man in southwestern virginia got a voter registration application in the mail. but there s just a little problem. it was addressed to the family s dog that died two years ago. tim moore says the dog was notified mo morris that he was eligible to vote and should register. the name was mozart. they found out the form came from a private not for profit group that works to get more people registered to vote. the group admits that sometimes it makes mistakes. my question is, how did he know his nickname was mo. they do their research. people find out all kinds of information about your life. you know? cute dog. stay with us. news4 today continues right now at 5:00 a.m. this is news4 today. bracing for a day of dangerous heat as near record temperatures descend on the district. the sun isn t even up yet and we re seeing temperatures already in the 70s. 75 degrees right now. good morning. i m annie goff. i m eun yang. a heat advisory today. the heat means changes for the trash pickup in the district. they will now begin collections an hour earlier, at 6:00 a.m., for the rest of the week. that means d.c. residents who put out trash and
this hot outside, though, i don t know if people are listening to that advice. you adapt to it. mine is set at 78. it s comfortable. especially when it s 98 outside and you come into that, ah, it feels great. and the ceiling fan, you can turn that on. that helps, yeah. just get the air moving. here are the temperatures now. it s pleasant now. you don t need the ac now. although it is rather humid. all of the areas in yellow. that includes along the potomac, near low to mid 70s. areas in green are in the 60s. that s much of virginia, west virginia, the eastern shore. a pleasant morning. cool 60 right now. but big change on the way. noon to 10:00 p.m., heat advisory in effect. heat index, a combination of the temperature and the humidity, 100 to 105, mid to late afternoon. that is dangerous heat. and that includes all of these counties in orange. the district. northern virginia, most of maryland, eastern and western virginia. this is going to be in effect from noon to 10:00 p.m. how hot? yes, near report heat. the record for today is 99 set on this date in 1931 for june 20th record. the june 3 2 1st record, thursday, is 98 set in 1988. we re going to be near those records both today and again tomorrow. i ll be back in ten minutes with your day planner. danella is here now with a look at the traffic. right now if you re traveling on i-66, live look from chopper 4. it is nice and clear. make your way eastbound at 50. travel lanes are open. not seeing anything slowing you down right now. in fact, your travel speed from fairfax county parkway to the beltway, about 57 miles per hour. that s really nice. 11 minutes to make that trip so far. let s head over to the interchange. traveling on the outer loop, nice and clear. inner loop as well as you loop your way around from the interchange heading to the dulles toll. 64 miles per hour. and if you are traveling along i-270, clear at father hurley southbound as you make your way to the lane divide. by you make your way to 85, slow. on over to you. thanks. 6:02. breaking news. just minutes ago the s.w.a.t. team arrived for a standoff near the intersection of 17th and r streets in southeast. all morning we ve seen a lot of police activity in that neighborhood with officers pulling out rifles. they are looking for the gunman behind a deadly shoot that left one man dead early this morning. we have a crew on the scene there. police pushed them back when the s.w.a.t. team arrived. we will bring you a live report as soon as we can. we will follow this story all morning long. new this morning. police are investigating a deadly crash in north springfie springfield. one person died in the accident around midnight. police have not released the victim s name. the cause of the crash is under investigation. for harry thomas jr. will begin serving his prison sentence. thomas will report to federal prison in alabama. he will likely spend 2 1/2 years there. back in january he pled guilty to spending heds of thousands of dollars in government grants that were supposed to go to youth programs. the prince george s county councilwoman is due in court today. karen toles could be fined $500 and get six points on her license. she s already pleaded guilty to a lesser use unsafe lane change ticket from that february incident. some say that could mean she could try to fight the more serious charge by claiming she s being prosecuted twice for the same crime. this morning we re trying to learn more about how a man wanted for murdering a woman in dewey beach died. 26-year-old kumar was suspected in stabbing danielle. maids at the atlantic ocean side motel found her body in a room monday morning. sources say she was staying in that room with kumar. police launched a manhunt and found kumar s body in a hotel in new jersey. this is the first murder in dewey beach since the town was incorporated in 1981. howard county police are looking for the person who shot a 15-year-old boy last night. neighbor found him lying in a field near frederick road and called 911. police say the teen is from baltimore. paramedics flew him to shock trauma where he is recovering. right now in egypt, state television is reporting a former president hosni mubarak is on life support. initial reports said the 84-year-old was dead when moved to a military facility. now medical staff describe his condition as very critical. mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in mass killings. news of his failing health comes in a debate over who will succeed mubarak. results from last weekend s presidential election are scheduled to be announced tomorrow. and while you were sleeping, president obama arrived back in washington from the g-20 summit in mexico. the president told reporters yesterday that he is confident european leaders will be able to solve their economic crisis. he admitted if europe s finances don t improve, our country s economic recovery may lag, and that could impact his re-election prospects. president obama also met with russian and chinese leaders while at the summit. he said neither country agreed to work with the u.s. and other countries to stop the violence in syria. mitt romney is denying reports he s ruling out marco rubio as a running mate. romney said he is vetting the congressman. this is the first time he has confirmed his campaign has vetted anyone. romney set the record straight about rubio while campaigning in michigan. it was final stop on his five-day bus tour through six battleground states. the time is 6:06. why attorney general eric holder could find himself in contempt today. confrontation involving alec baldwin that is now the focus of a criminal investigation. and stifling heat. it s already into the 70s and we could break a record. larry: and traffic on the up welcome ban. great night for a great cause. pink was the color of the hour for a great cause. angie goff, of course, along with a dozen of our tv news colleagues hosted the big bash to fight breast cancer. it was held at the howard theater. the goal was to raise money for the george washington s university what mammography van. thanks to everyone who helped make it a great night. thanks for your support. they re tallying up the numbers this morning to find out how much we re going to be able to donate. we need to thank barbara jane. and m.j. for running the deck. you might want to stay in, listen to music, relax, have a nice ice cold beverage today because it s going get hot outside. keep the a.c. going, too. set your thermostat at 78. that will help us keep the power on. good morning. i m tom kierein in time for weather and traffic on the up withes. right now at 6:11 around the region. it s pleasant and it is rather humid, though. the sun is about to emerge from the cloud cover on the eastern horizo horizon. it s 74 at reagan national. much of the rest of the region in the mid and upper 60s. it s a pleasant morning. here s your day planner. look at that haze. that s a live view from sky watcher camera. we ve got the thick humidity in the air. by noontime, low 90s. hazy, sunshine. heat and humidity during the afternoon. peeking upper 90s. mid afternoon by 5:00, back down to mid 90s. your seven-day outlook is in ten minutes. how is traffic now? traveling along route 50 in maryland, looking good. outbound at 301, no issues there. very light volume this morning. traveling the beltway, live look at 202. you re clear and the other way on the outer loop from 50 to i-95 here at 62 miles per hour. looking like a nine-minute drive right now. now, over to the rail seeing a long delay. penn south train number 511 you re looking at a 15-minute delay. back over the you. thank you. the time is 6:12. ahead, the get out the vote campaign that one virginia man says really messed up. and next, a video you have to see this morning. a passenger turns the tables on the tsa and lands in jail. but this story has an jimmy bond my feet are too dry and cracked for sandals. try gold bond foot cream. it has moisturizers that penetrate thick skin. thanks. think gold bond. this stuff works breaking dmus at 6:15. police including a s.w.a.t. team are surrounding a d.c. neighborhood searching for the person responsible for the a deadly shooting they re the intersection of 17th and, are streets in southeast. tracee wilkins was the first reporter live on the scene and joins us with more information. good morning. good morning. throughout the morning we have watched as more officers have come on board, more detectives here, and now, as you said, the s.w.a.t. team as well. i want you to take a look behind me and see what s going on right now. police have moved us back yet again as they have once again expanded the scene here. for the third time this morning. i want you to take a look over to the right and see what s happening here on minnesota avenue. it is now taped off. you cannot come down minnesota avenue approaching bening road right now. they have it taped off here at s and 17th. let me show you it what it looked like just a few minutes ago as s.w.a.t. team arrived coming down the street to offer support to these officers who have been here all morning long. now, the let me take you back to earlier to morning. just before 3:00 a.m. there was a shooting here at r and 17th street. a man,ed a dull ma ed a dued e killed. as they began to make their way into the apartment house where the shooting happened, they quickly exited the house and then told us that we needed to move a little farther away from the actual investigation because they believed that they were dealing with a possible stand youfrks barricade situation. it has expanded since that point this we continue to move the media back and they have continued to move their own officers back to a safe position. officers are still on the scene as this all continues to unfold at this point. no suspect information but we can assume that this may have something to do with the suspect. reporting live in southeast, i m tracee wilkins, news 4. you ve heard the complaints about tsa patdowns, now one passenger is making headlines for fighting back. check this out. carol price was going through security in ft. myers, florida, when she says she was groped by a tsa agent. but instead of filing a complaint, she puts down her own bags and does a little groping of her own. price said she did it to show the agent what she had just gone through. price says she knows proper protocol because she used to be a tsa agent and worked at that very airport until a few years ago. she s obviously been through training. and knew this lady. she did not touch the supervisor as intrusively as she was touched. price admits she was emotional that day. she was on her way to her brother s funeral. she was removed from the flight and now faces misdemeanor battery charges. this morning new york city police confirm they written vest gating allegations alec baldwin assaulted a photographer. daily news photographer says baldwin shoved and purnged him outside the city marriage license bureau yesterday morning. to fphotographers say baldwin came after her when he tried to get a picture of the actor and his fiance. the defense in the jerry sandusky sex abuse trial is expected to rest today. if sandusky is going to take the stand in his own defense it will happen this morning. the former coach s wife took the stand yesterday. she told jurors she never saw or heard any inappropriate contact between sandusky and the boys that stayed at their home. dottie sandusky also contradicted one accuser who claimed he yelled for help saying the room he claimed to be in was not sound proof. sandusky is accused of sks welly abusing ten boys over a 15-year stand. deliberations are expected to begin tomorrow. a man in southwestern virginia got a voter registration application in the mail. but there s one little problem. it was address it to the family s dog that died two years ago. tim morris says the document notified mo morris that he was eligible to vote and to register. the dog s name was mozart. mo was the family s nickname for the dog. the owner has no idea how anyone knew about the animal. he would have been 18 19 years old this year. and he passed away two years ago. and i still have no earthly idea how they got his information. the family says the form came from a private not for profit group that works to get more people to register to vote. the ones hot nationals are suddenly cold. they lost their fourth game in a row last night to tampa bay rays. but it was at any time final score picking headlines today. it s this incident from the eighth inning. umpires ejected pitcher peralta when they found a foreign substance on his glove. he was still warming up. he used to pitch with the nationals, faces suspension for the incident. miami heat fans are probably in a great mood this morning. their team is just one win away from its second nba title in franchise history. james and heat won 104-98 in game four of the nba finals. the heat holds 3-1 lead in the series. washington native kevin durant scored 28 points in the loss for the thunder. the heat will try to close out the series tomorrow right at home. i know one person who is very happy about this, my weekend morning co-anchor rich chart jord jordan. kevin durant is from d.c. you think miami heat is hot? washington, d.c. is going to be hotter. it s going up there, isn t it, tom? yeah, the sun is out there, too, behind you, emerging from the clouds on the eastern horizon. pleasant morning now though. it s down to the low 70 nasdaq washington and right along the potomac near the bay. elsewhere in the 60s. eastern shore, much of the virginia and into west virginia. some locations down noor 60 degrees. we ve had some patchy dense fog for me over the last just few minutes in montgomery county. parts of loud den as well as prince william, stafford, near culpepper and there is patchy dense fog this morning. temperatures will be though rapidly climbing today into the upper 90s this afternoon with hazy sunshine, high humidity. we ll repeat this again tomorrow. afternoon storms. then cooler weather on friday with more clouds and a greater chance of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. might linger in the early saturday morning. after that, weekend looks great. lower humidity. highs 80s and staying pleasant into next week. slow on i-66, tom. chopper 4 is flying live over i- 659234. seeing a lot of crowding in this area. you are slow as you make your way to centerville but not so bad as you continue eastbound towards the beltway around fairfax county parkway and continuing, not seeing any neighbma major delays there. let s also check out route 29 at 216 in maryland. heading northbound as well as southbound. nice and clear in this area. southbound, in fact, continuing all of the way through to silver spring. you re clear as you heat to the beltway. no issues to report. still checking the rails and still seeing that 15-minute delay on the penn south chain of 511. metro and vre are not reporting delays. the time is 6: 2. ahead, low-down criminal. what a local woman was doing when a man took off with her purse. [ male announcer ] go from being on the road to being on vacation. hilton honors. the guest loyalty program with over thirty-eight hundred hotels worldwide. loyalty program your home and auto policies and save. don t worry, tiny people. flo is a gentle giant. bundle home and auto at progressive.com. more than 5,000 gerss at a luxury hotel are finally being allowed back to their rooms after a small explosion overnight. firefighters were called to the opryland hotel and convention center in nashville around 8:30 in the evening. the explosion happened in a mechanical room near exhibit hall. investigators say something may have malfunctioned. significant damage was done but no one hurt. d.c. council will consider a new proposal that will allow verizon center to add more electronic billboards. they ve been pushing the council for months now to update and add new signs to the building. some community members have chained that the signs will be disruptive. it would allow as many as nine new signs to go up. they would add a wrap around sign at the corner of seventh and f streets along with new signs at the entrance to metro. it says the signs will emit less light and help generate much needed revenue. 6:26. 74 degrees. giving congress a piece of their minds. a message that has some pizza chains teaming up. frightening crime. random attack that happened on the street during the height of i m tom kierein. right now, right now, 6:29. the entire area under a meet advisory. look at this map. it will feel like triple digit temperatures for all of the counties in orange. good morning. welcome to news4 today. the heat today will be down right dangerous later. prepare to pump the air conditioning on your way to work. temperatures climbing into the 70s already this morning. when we hit our high, even the air conditioning may not do you any good but we can at least try, right, tom? yeah. and you re definitely going to need heating and later today. good advice is to have your thermostat at around 78 or so. that will help to conserve energy because we don t want any power out agesoutages. if we set them too low, too cold, it could be over taxing the electrical system. visibility there is down half a mile as well as prince william county. but elsewhere, visit is improving. thicker fog earlier. how hot today? well, near record heat. reagan national airport record high for this day back in 1931 was 99. tomorrow s rrd high, 98. setback on june 21st, 1988. we will be near those record highs both today and again tomorrow. here s the day planner for this wednesday. in fact, by 9:00, going to be in the mid 80s with hazy sunshine. hazy, hot, and humid by noontime. the low 90s. and soar to the mid and upper 90s by mid afternoon for a couple of hours there between 3:00 to 5:00 or 6:00. it will be in the mid and upper 90s. i m back in ten minutes. danella is here now with a look at traffic. good morning. good morning, tom. right now checking travel speeds in our area. some roads look great like the dulles toll road. six minutes from the beltway. talking about 57 miles per hour in that area. continuing on the beltway from the dulles toll road to the interchanger at 52 miles per hour. not bad. on i-95, slow to the bridge to the beltway. you re at about 33 miles an hour. looking like an 18-minute drive right now. connecting on to 395, this is your view. seeing a little bit of volume in this area. you are under speed but not by much. 48 miles per hour. looking like a 14-minute drive to the beltway. on over to you. police say a man was robbed and stabbed in what what appears to be a random attack in montgomery county. the victims walking down the street yesterday afternoon in the 63,000 block of new hampshire avenue in tacoma park. witnesses tell police the robber approached the victim and demanded his backpack. there was a struggle. the robber pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times. it s crazy. it s usually not like that around this area. it s pretty cool out here. this is like rare because, you know, a lot of people stay to themselves and it s real busy. a lot of, you know, stores and people coming back and forth. the robber took off with the backpack with a laptop computer inside. police searched nearby streets, wooded areas and even dumpsters but they did not find the robber. the victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition. police in fred drirgs distributionburg hope a picture taken from a atm camera will help them trarack down a purse snatcher. the atm machine where this picture was taken if victim s purse was grabbed while she was trying to help a homeless man who was bleeding. the injured man was later charged with destruction of property with breaking a window. it happened areaier this month on princess ann street near the fredericksburg post office. today flags in maryland will fly at half staff in honor of the marine killed in afghanistan. marine sergeant julian chase was killed in combat on memorial day. the 22-year-old lived in edge water and graduated in 2008 from woodrow wilson high school in d.c. the work group discussing possible legislation to expand gambling in maryland could make a decision today. they will advise o malley whether to call a special session next month to take up the issues. it would include legalized table games and plans for a new casino in prince george s county. it would be near the national harbor and could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars for the state. researchers say it could generate $347 million a year. more than it would come from people outside maryland. a house committee could decide today whether to holder rick holder in contempt of congress. the vote stems from refusal to produce documents related to a gun smuggling program. the committee s chairman, republican darrell issa, wanted the documents immediately. holder wants a congressional meeting to brief lawmakers on the material. today s committee vote would still need to pass the full house. the nfl bounty scandal draws the attention of lawmakers today. nfl commissioner roger goodell and dick durbin will hold a news conference with cleaning up the game of football. the league accused the saints. goodell met with some players yesterday who is a we peaing or punishment. they will discuss reforms to prevent future problems. a traffic alert if you plan on heading to the beach today. the bay bridge will shut down in both directions this afternoon. starting at 1:15 the bridge will close for about 40 minutes if closure isn t for anything happening on the bridge but for something traveling under it. something big. a barge care iing are four massive 14-story will pass under the bridge, cleearing it by only four feet. transportation officials were worried drivers might become distracted by the site causing slow traffic or accident. ahead, something mayor gray does not need right now, a new controversy. a very difficult day ahead for former d.c. politician. breaking news. a 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[ herb ] from the moment we walked in the front door, just to see me not as a cancer patient, but as a person that had been helped by their work. i was just blown away. life s been good to me. i feel like one of the luckiest guys in the world. welcome back. at 6:39. look at the haze and sky over the white house. it s going to be a scorcher today. g ready today. summer officially begins and the three hs are already back in our vocabulary so soon. i call it the triple threat, hazy, hot, and humid. throwing a d, too, and that s dangerous. not much consolation but we re not alone with dealing with the impressive heat today. they issued heat advisories covering 12 states and the district. tom keierein with just how ht it s going to get in our area. right now it s pleasant. live view of joggers on the mall. you need to get your exercise in, now is the time to do it. certainly not this afternoon because it will be dangerous heat this afternoon as you mentioned. our bodies are not acclimate to the high heat. we re going to have that this afternoon. you will get the most reports of heat related illnesses. right now it s pleasant. around the region, all the areas of green are in the 60s. that included much of maryland and west virginia but closer to washington, around the suburbs and southern maryland near the bay and those areas, it s in the low to mid 70s now. it is rather humid. at muggy morning. hometown forecast for annandale and fairfax county. by 9:00, already in the 80s. and then by nooun noontime, in the 90s. mid afternoon, holding steady. after that in the evening, still a hot evening. in fact, by 10:00, still in the 80s throughout much of the area. a great coming. seven-day outlook is in ten minutes. let s check traffic now. danella, how is it looking? checking out delays inside the beltway on i-66 eastbound. you re slow. really they start at the dulles toll road. live look as you drive. volume is underspeed. 33 miles per hour. in the beltway to glebe, it s going to take you 11 minutes. crossing over new hampshire avenue. in fact, on the beltway outer loop at new hampshire you re still from i-95 to new hampshire avenue. once gow get to university boulevard rate now, looking pretty good this morning. angie, back over to you. breaking news. police standoff in d.c. this the the screenplaying out in the southeast neighborhood right now. police are rifles drawn hiding behind cars parked in the street, making their way down the street. the s.w.a.t. team is also on the scene. policemen are looking for a gunman responsible for a deadly shooting earlier this morning. news 4 s tracee wilkins was the first reporter on the scene and is watching it all unfold. what can you tell us by now? reporter: let me explain what s happening for folks who come through minnesota avenue heading toward bening. if you crossover 17th and minnesota, know they have the street blocked. they are rerouting metro buses here. no traffic is going to get through this way. just a little while ago, as the s.w.a.t. team arrived here on the scene. now, this is what s going on. police told us earlier this morning they believe they re dealing with possible barricade situation. then they have moved us back after that at least three times away from the crime scene. we are looking at just the s.w.a.t. team standing there closer to the apartment house where this all happened. now, just before 3:00 a.m. adult male was shot and killed in front of an apartment house. and police have no suspect information at this time. but as they were investigating the scene they quickly moved away from the house where the shooting happened and that s when they said they believe that they were dealing with a possible barricade situation. they haven t said more to us at this point about who it is they think is barricaded. the investigation is continuing. reporting live in southeast, i m tracee wilkins, news4. thank you. prince george s county councilwoman could be close to losing her license. karen toles is due in court today to face a reckless traffic charge that could result in fine and six points in her license. she already had two points on her license and that means she could have eight and begin the process of having her license suspended. she apologized for the february incident and said she was running late for an appointment. today former d.c. council member harry thomas jr. will begin serving his prison sentence. thomas will report to a minimum federal prison camp in alabama. he will spend at northeast 2 1/2 years there. back in january he pled guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grants that were supposed to go to youth programs. news4 sources confirm vincent gray s choice to leave the housing district was involved in a relationship with a senior staffer when he recently led a similar agency in philadelphia. sources tell us michael kelly disclosed the relationship to mayor gray before he was tapped. gray s office cleared the appointment with the federal housing and urban development. kelly is not under investigation or facing any misconduct charges but does acknowledge he had an inappropriate affair outside of his marriage. kelly s nomination is subject to confirmation by the d.c. council. mayor become donnell is speaking out the first time about the controversial ouster of university of vinlg s president. the school board of ves ors should be more open with the community when it forced teresa sullivan from office after less than two years on the job. he stepped down yesterday after the result of the controversy. many professors are refusing to work with the college s interim president, carl zeithaml. one professor even resigned. today a judge will hear the sat of virginia s motion to set aside a negligence verdict against virginia tech. jurors ruled school officials waited too long to alert students of the shootings during the 2007 campus massacre. families of two students killed say they could have survived if warned sooner. jurors awarded $8 million to the families. new this morning. police are investigating a deadly crash in north springfield at the intersection of hinton street and leesville boulevard. police have not released the victim s name. the cause of the crash is under investigation. this morning we re trying to learn more about how a man wanted for murdering a woman in dewey beach died. kumar was suspected of stabbing danielle. maids found her body in a room monday morning. she was staying in that room with kumar. police launched a manhunt and found his body in a hotel in new jersey. a baltimore teen is in the hospital this morning after being shot. howard county police say someone shot the 15-year-old last night in elicott city. the teen is in serious condition. right now in egypt. conflicting reports about the health of former president hosni mub lack. egyptian television is reporting he is on life support but just this morning an attorney for mubarak said the ousted leader will make a recovery in three to four days. he was sentenced to life in prison for his goal in mass killings. president obama is back in washington this morning. he arrived overnight from the g-20 summit in mexico. the president told reporters he s confident european leaders will be able to solve their economic crisis. he also admitted that if europe s finances do not improve ur our economy may lag and that could impact his re-election prospects. president obama also met with russian and chinese leaders while at the summit. he said neither country agreed to work the u.s. and other nations to stop the violence in syria. for the first time mitt romney is talking about potential running mates. the presumptive republican presidential candidate says his campaign is vetting florida congressman marco rubio. he made the revelation yesterday while campaigning in michigan. it was the final stop on his five-day bus tour through six battleground states. he was denying the report from earlier in the day that his campaign ruled out rubio as a running mate. wall street is in a bit of a holding pattern this morning awaiting an announcement from the fed on whether there is a new plan to give the economy a boost. we have that story. good morning. good morning. futures pointing to a flat open on wall street this morning as investors await the fed s rate decision today. many economists thinking that the fed may announce new measures to boost the sluggish u.s. economy in the face of disappointing jobs and retail sales data and as europe debt crisis poses a threat to growth. we ll have a news conference by fed chairman ben bernanke at 2:15. europe is flat this morning p here in the u.s., stocks closed at five-week highs on tuesday on the back of upbeat housing data. the nasdaq up 34 to 2929. and microsoft may be basking in the glow of unveiling the new surface tablet on monday but today would be more important for the company in the short run. meeting with developers to discuss the windows phone. they re going to get a sneak pook at the new advice, reportedly includes a payment app and skype. back over to you. thank you. the district is moving up trak pickup an hour earlier. the d.c. department of public works started clelkdss at 6:00 in the morning. early start will continue for the rest of the week. d.c. residents can put out trash and recycling starting at 6:00 the night before pickup. power companies urge you to conserve energy to avoid a major outa outage. the central air conditioner makes up 30% of your energy bill. you can clean the air filter. thermostat set around 78 degrees is considered reasonably comfortable. tom kierein agrees. also, move household items away from the thermostat to make sure your furniture isn t blocking air ducts or plans. close your blinds and curtains to keep the sunshine out as well. another great way. but actually it s all relative. if the outside temperature is 7. put it on 78, it will help to conserve the energy. i don t think we need it right now. live on the mall now joining us is melissa mollet. what is it like out there now? reporter: well, good morning. i can tell you, tom, it is really, really sticky. i look kind of dewy because it s wet out here right now. it s just very humid. we were talking earlier and you said days like today are really tough every year because you ve got to getting aically mated to that first hot day of the year. lots of folks out there morning running and biking. especially early get that workout before it gets too hot. one thing you want to remember, if you have a dog, keep that dog hydrated and inside. cool spot today. a good idea that i read online this morning perhaps, wrap your dog in a cold bandana. we ve been seeing it all morning. expected to be the hottest day of the year so far. 98. it will feel like 105 degrees with the humidity. what are you going to do to try and stay cold? well, i have my water. i m doing it early. i ll be back with within the hour and i ll stay in the remind mander of the day. reporter: how does today come pain to these? today seems like the worst day. i ve been out a lot of mornings but it seems like the worse. reporter: tom, dress lightly and bring that water wherever you go. great advice, yeah, take frequent breaks if you have to be outside. plenty of water. around the region, it s pleasant. near 70 degrees. the air is saturated with the humidity. it s muggy and sticky this morning. it s beginning to dissipate around the rural areas. it s going to be hot this afternoon. in fact, that heat index, 100 to 105. that combination of the air temperature and the humidity, it s what s going to feel like. all the keens in orange, noon to 10:00 p.m. the district, most of maryland. and as we look at your day planner it is going to be rapidly warming up. by 9:00, into the mid 80s. by noontime, low 90s for your lunch hour. and mid afternoon that s when the you don t have to be outside, stay in the ac, between 1:00, 2:00, all of the way until this evening. it is going to be dangerously hot. in fact, peeking in the upper 90s by 3:00 or 4:00. by 6:00, back down to the mid 90s. by late evening, still in the 80s. low to mid 70s tomorrow morning but another day, a lot like today tomorrow. we might get some isolated thunderstorms. this heat way will not last long. a lot of clouds around. still humid. but some afternoon and evening thunderstorms likely as a cool front will be moving through. after that front goes by it will bring in much more pleasant weather for saturday, sunday, and the first part of next week. lower humidity moves in along with cooler temperatures. highs in the 80s each day. now let s check the wednesday commute. good morning, how are we doing? good morning. no fun driving awon long i-90 right now. congestion past lorton. some places you re just going to be really jammed like around dale city. as you pass lorton, it s going to be a lit more go than stop. that drive taking 38 minutes from quantico to get to the beltway. let s head over to shea difficult grove. tarting to hit the breaks just a bit as you make your way southbound on i-270 at shady grove. your travel lanes are open but you re pretty slow. a stafford man fought back three intrutders during a home invasion. the chsheriff s office says the teen rang the doorbell at 2:00 a.m. the homeowner answered the door and the teens w5ualked in and hd down the man s wife. the teens ran off. 18-year-old terry welch turned himself into custody. one neighbor said she neweknew h when he was in high school. good kid. talented. whesled well. we never have problems in this neighborhood. it s really scary. deputies arrested two 16s. i vis gaest gators are looking this. five-more break-ins have been linked to a pair of thieves who police say are targeting a germantown neighborhood. the duo has now hit a total of 23 homes during clopper home. it shows one of the burglars. if you recognize this again call police. police are going after homes where the doors are locked and garage doors are left opened. pizza chains across the country are teaming up to fight lawmakers in a proposal to label menus. that s according to the washington post. today lawmakers on capitol hill will discuss the plan to force chain restaurants to post the calorie counts on the foods they re selling. pizza chains including domino s, papa john s, pizza hut say the indoor menu board are useless to them because 90% of the ord is are placed online or over the phone. domino s, 34 million ways to customize a pizza and no way to list the calorie county for each combination on one menu. good point. this is the 19th year our station has run the camp for kids program with the community foundation for the national capital region. nbc4 general manager and sponsor owner of mr. basement company presented this year s donations to the campers. to date, we ve been able to raise half a million dollars for area camps and you can still donate by going online to nbcwashington.com. look for camp for kids. that s right. great group. that s going to do it for this edition of news4 today. stay cool, everybody. the today show is next. back in 25 minutes with weather, traffic, and any breaking news. back here tomorrow morning at 4:28. join us then. until then, have a great day. see you tomorrow. 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