it's 4:30. overnight showers turning into a morning mess. rain coming down for many across the region, and it may hang around for some time.ad yeah, we h to take out the umbrellas this morning into work. >> a lot of ponding i noticed coming off rock creek parkway. >> need the galoshes maybe. good morning, everyone, i'm eun yang. >> i was driving -- >> i know, but some people to wait at the bus stop. they have to drive to their cars. >> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. let's start with a check of the fomucast and come. melissa mollet has the first 4 r affic. let's start with amelia draper and an update on the weather alert this morning. amelia? >> i'll help you out. i wore my bo shoes in today

because, you know, it's raining. i don't want to ruin my nice shoes. that walk into work, it's t t worstng in the morning at lready en your feet are wet. yeah. i started off with the wellies. tomorrow's going to be all about the sunglasses. here's radar right now, we're weather alert mode with widespread rain and thunderstorms later this afternoon. you see evybody in themetro area south and north dealing with rain. to the westnd shenandoah valley seeing some drying right now. but if you're in parts of y,udoun and prince william and fauquier countaround gainesville, sterling, toward dulles, dealing with some moderate, even heavy rain out thereen remember whhe windshield wipers on, the headlights need to be on, as well. we have a high today of 78 with a lull in the rain around the midday hours. then hit-and-miss thunderstorms between 2:00 and 7:00 a.m. i'll have more coming up. melissa, you're alady tracking a problem on 95 in virginia thii morng. >> that's right. this is northboun 95 before ro

franconia ad. springfield, right now getting by onhe right side. this is a multi-crash with injuries. so it may be some time before this is really cpletely cleared out of the way. getting something like this so early really can cause a big impact here for the morning commute. the good news is we're not really seeing it on the maps quite yet. let that's one mileworth of backups right now. 66 inbound is looking okay. w thave a situation i willlk about in a second near the rosslyn tunnel. no work zones on the beltway. outer loop after gallows, a car has spun out there. northbound 95 after the beltway, left side blocked by a crash. westbound 66 at the rosslyn , tunnelft lane getting by the work zone. eun? >> thank you. it's 4:32. we're following breaking news montgomery county. police are asking people to stay away from the 15 block of randolphroad as officers search or people involved in a burglary at a gun sho officers say that as thegl burs fled the scene, they struck aru er. an officer fired some shots, but

we don't know whether anyone was hit. news4 has a crew heading to the scene. we'll update you as we learn more information. we're following new de investigation into the deaths of a local couple who died while on vacation in the dominican republic. >> the fbi is n getting involved here. the bodies of nathaniel holmes and cynthia day were returned to the u.s. earlier thisweek. dominican authorities have asked the fbi for assistance in conducting toxicology analyses. the results could take up to 30 days. dominican officials said the couple died of respiratory failure in their hotel room in may. the families want new autopsies done in the u.s. we're al learning more about the attempted murder of xformer boston red so star david ortiz who was shot in the dominican republic. investigators say the shooting was not random. six men have been arrested. police say they were paid nearly $8,000 to kill the former baseball player. a seventh suspect is still wanted. ortiz was shot at pointblank

range while sitting outside a bar earlier this week. no word on who wanted ortiz dead or why.as ortiz wlown back to the united states and is still in icu at a hospital in boston. d.c. policere lookingor shooter who killed a local man who was on his way to his son's elementary school graduation. 27-year-old darrell johnson was walking to his car on 62nd street northast when heas hit wednesday morning. the gunman fired several shots, not all of them hit johnson. we do know that several bullets went into a minivan, and one to an apartment. no one was inside time. d help finding a suspect and a motive here. the mother of joline musa had to hear how her ex-boyfriend kaled the shooter pled guilty in court wednesday, admitting to choking musa to death when she tried to end the relationship.

musa disappeared from her fairfax county home of january, 2018. was found nearly two weeks later. >> i think he needs to learn a lesson. i don't want any other young woman to fall tote the fa that jolee did. >> this is an abuser who is actually going to lose the person he wasin controllg. >> the admittediller had previously been convicted of assaulting jolene muse. he faces sentencing in september. a man who filmed dozens of women and girls trying to clothing across northern tt virginia ad he is guilty. police say he set up tiny cameras in fitting rooms in four different shopping centers across fairfax county. he recorded at least 60 women reand childn. he pled guilty to four counts of unlawful filming on wednesday. he will be sentenced in september and could fates up to eight years in prison. it's now 4:35. we're continuing to follow the breaking news in montgomery county.

police are searching for the burglarsho hit a gun shop. >> at least one officer fired shots at the scene. mental heal megan mcgrath joins us live with what we've learned there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this happened at e united gun shop here on randolph road in rockville. you see the active scene behind me here. the police officers on the side of this building.a s where the gun shop is located. and it appearst there's a piece of a car, possibly a bumper right there alongside -- alongside the gun shop. this began to fold early morning. officers arrived on the scene at some point here and encountered the suspects. four suspects.e and ther was a confrontation some kind. the suspects while trying to fleeme slam into a police cruiser. a police officer did fire shots. and there is an active search going on. we believe down the street. there's a second scene here further down on randolph road.

a second scene of some kind. as they look for those four suspects who are involved here, at this point we don't know if any guns were taken. we don't know if the officers' shots hit anything. still very early. there is a public formation officer on the scene here. apparently at the second scene. as soon as i get off the air with you, i'm going to gather more information. again, there was a robbery, a burglary here at the united gun shop in rockville. it did lead to a police shooting, aer police off discharging their weapon, and an ongoing situatn here. i hope to have more details very soon. back to you. >> all right. megan mcgrath. we'll check back in a bit. thanks. still ahead, those electric scooters are popping up everywher i'm seeingem. >> if you're thinking about taking a spin, there's something to keep in mind before you hop on. good morning, everyone, today at 5:00, you'll meet a young woman who's battling cancer after doctors found a

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welcome back. they're becoming a common sight around theg.c. ren. people of all ages riding on rs.ctric scoo it's a trend that has caught on around the country. now a rutgers university study finds that the number of peole injured while riding electric scooters has tripled since 2008. it's important toote that many people who were hurt were not wearing helmets. i'm going to tell you now, i've not seen a single person riding rhese with a helmet. >> i sd riding them pretty regularly in my neighborhood, and i've never put on a some places tell you you have to. >> some are going really fast the opposite direction of traffic. it makes me so nervous. >> and on the sidewalk, which i've done. imes it feels safer. this morning video of a wild uar crash in thanashville. the driver was ly to walk away. >> the series of events started with a sneeze. this happened quickly. you'll want to watch carefully here. the driver behind e wheel of

this suv says he sneezed so violently he lost control. the suv flipped over several times be are it came to stop near an intersection. a nearby group of golfers and construction workers saw what they ran over to help. look at this. working together they turned the suv upright again. theyiv helped the get out. incredibly he was okay. if all that wasn't enough, moments afte he stepped out of the suv it burst into flames. >> oh, no! >> everyone backed away, and first responders came to put the fire out. >> i'm glad the driver is okay. >> lucky guy. >> that when you sneeze yo can't keep your eyes open. if you're sneezing that hard, you don't see what's ppening. >> yeah. pull over when you feel it coming. all right. a weather alert day. let's check with amelia. >> the widespread rain with thes heavi in stafford, southern fauquier, prince william, and calvert counties. i'll have more on how the rain leadsoo storms latery in the full forecast. we have problems across the

area on the roads. northbound 95 before franconia road. cres now in the left side of the roadway. we have delays here and delays elsewhere. full details on l of this alc

14 before the hour. if you haven't made it to look outside the window yet, let me spare you the trouble, it's raining. make sure you pack the umbrella. we are in storm team amode. we'll have the forecast. >> some people like to look out the window just to be sure for themselves. >> go for it. >> we're continuing to follow a developer story involving the trump administration. the president is no stranger to controversy, and in an interview yesterday with abc news, he stirred up a bit more. take a listen. >> your campaign this time around, if foreigners, russia, china, someonffers information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think maybe you do both. i think you mit want to listen. there's nothing wrong with listening. >> yesterday the president's son appeared before a senate intelligence committee to answer questions on several topics. one of them coincidentally

concerns that now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting with russians who were promising incriminatininformation on hillary clinton. >> news4's tracie potts joins us li now from capitol hill. how are the comments president trump made being received, and what does is mean for the ouse investigation into hi administrations? >> reporter: here's some of the reaction from capitol hill, democrats, un-american, treasonous, the very definitions of collusion. thascs how they're debing the president's comments about receiving opo research, opposition research, from a foreign government. but is it illegal? a grayiary. it's what -- gray area. it's what the russia n investigatios about. testifye as his son was being his own meeting with a russian lawyer. now we learn there's another trump insider who's going to be talking to law enforcement next week. hope hicks, the former communications director for president trump, is going to be sitting down with the house judiciary committee be despite the fact that the preside has

exerted executive privilege over all of his staff. the white house sttaff,ing to democrats, investigating here on capitol hill. >> all right.ci trapotts live on capitol hill. thank you. this.nd take a look at did you catch this rare sovht er d.c. yesterday? two f-35 fighter jetsm perfor a flyover above downtown d.c. and the white house. many of you reached out asking whether there was some kind of emergency. there wasn't. it was a demonstration for the polish president who was visiting president trum poland is set to buy 32 of those jets, so the president wanted to show them off. flyovers have been extremely limited since the terrorist attacks of september 11th. this morning, leaders of a northern virginia congregation say someone stole their rainbow pride flag. >> there is not the first time -- this is not the first time this has happened. it was flown outside the unitarian universalist church for two years.

early tuesd someone stole the 11-foot rainbow flag on top of wheelie avenue. this is the third time it's been stolen in three months. everend debra hafner want the thieves to know that stealing the flag will not stop the church from supporting the lgbtq lmmunity. >> sit down andk at that person or those people in the eye and talk to them about how every person has dignity and worth. >> dr. haffner says the church will continue to fly the pride flag, and they will replace it as many times as needed. 4:49. d.c. police have named its officer of the year. and she's pretty incredible. meet tiara brown. e's been with the department for four years. she's not only a police officer but a campion boxer. if that wasn't enough, she is a volunteer with several community organizations and takes tim to mentor kids in her neighborhood. >> i think rtit's veryt to show the community that we care, not just as officers but as people, t at were about

the community. >> brown is originally from florida but has quickly made the disict her home. congratulations, and what a role model. we need more like her in our community. >> great example. > n reaganional airport is known for a lot of things, easy access, great architecture. also one very notorious >>gate. adam tuss shows the gate and looks at the process now underway to fix it. >> reporter: it is without a doubt the most ntorious gate at reagan national airport. 35x. the gate where you have to take a bus to a planethat's waiting for you outside. >> it sucks. hectic for people that never been all around, arnd this area. it's confusing. i'm stressed. >> reporter: airport travel's hard enough, right? >> it is hard, yes. >> reporter: you don't have to be outside boarding in >> in the rain and hot and everytng else. it's nicer to stay inside. >> reporter: nice to have a roof over your head. >> it is nice, yes.

>> reporter: 35x going away for good. this new terminal is being built on the north end of the airport. >> the main thing is that gate 35x, the dreaded gate 35x goes away. >> reporter: never again will travelers have to in the elements to get on their flights. steel rising frt the dir which will eventually provide shelter. check it out. a lot ofnc chain link feing here, a lot of construction going on. you might think this is in th middle of some field but it's not. take a look. all of this is going to tie t directly intohe existing b and c firminal right at that -- c firminal right at that window. just know that positive change is on the way. at reaganional airport, adam tuss, news4. t >> new airport looks nice. >> uh-huh. i think reagan national is really pretty, too. >> and it's convenient. i ean, it's under construction now, but it's convenient. >> it is. t amelia draper everyone shouldgraph the umbrellas? >> that's why we're in storm

team weather alemode. melliissa will have more on 95 a moment. check out radar. just everybody in the metro area is dealing with light to moderate rain. into northern virginia, moderate rain until you hit i-81. we'r mainly dry. but we're going tocontinue to see rain where we're seeing rain over the next few hours, until about 7:00, 8:00 a.m. after this we'll start to see it diminish a little bit. a lull around the midday hours, storms.ternoon we're going to walk you through with future weather. 6:00 a.m., notice rainn still place. as we move toward 8:00 a.m., still seeing showers out there. lighter in intensity. future weather wts to hold on to this rain until about 10:00 a.m. noon, i really think by about 10:00, 11: a.m., most of us will be getting a break. maybe sunshine during the early afternoon hours at 2:00 p.m. any sunshine is going to help to fuel afternoon thunderstorms as angh upper level trou moves through the area. we'll see storms moving through today later from west to east. i want to show you the timing

here. i mean, you can see it catches your eye. 4:00 p.m., noti the bright colors. that's heavy rain, the potential for strong, gusty winds, and hall of fame, as well. 5:00 p.m., noticing storms moving through montgomery, frederick counties, moving through the metro area, between about 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. once hit 7:00, 8:00, the rain is even east of southern maryland over on the eaern shore moving through delaware. as we look to the weekend, mainly dry. tomorrow it's going to be fabulous. no problem on saturday, warm and dry on saturday. high of 86. 92 on sunday. there's the chance of late-day thunderstorms on father's day. but i'm seeing that risk mainly during the late arch and evening hours -- late afternoon and evening hours. if you're golfing, going for a bike ride, go earlier. water temperatur in the mid 60s to near 70. here's your ten-day forecast -- re unsettled today. we're completely dry tomorrow.

we're breezy, though. in the 70s. and then after that, we start tw m up. humidity moves in on sunday. and then look at next week. there's the chance for dthunderstorms every of the workweek with highs in the 80s to l 90s. so really starts to feel like summer out here as many of us see our kds out of school next week. >> i know. all right. thanks. right now,wbran problem. this is new hampshire avenue just outside the beltway. just north of that beltway there. right now we have lanes blocked ections on new hampshire avenue. downed tree at rock ledge blocking the right lane, randolph road, where mental health is because of the policen vestigation. shut down between park lawn and putnam road. northbound 95 before franconia, left side is the only thing blocked with the multi-crash. you can see all of this radar showing you it's raining across the area rightn . no work zones on the beltway. outer loop after gallows, right side is blocked with a car spun out.

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breaking news now as we approach 5:00 a.m. montgomery county police needy you to sta away from the area of randoh road and parklawn drive in rockville. >> they're investigating a gun store robbery. one suspect is dead. loose.thers are on the it's not clear yet what if athing was stolen from the store. no officers were injured, but a cruiser was rammed. news4's megan mcgrath will have a live report coming up. first, though, let's get to your weather and traffic on a

alert day. >> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. there is a lot going on this rainy thursday morning. let's beginth a check on your forecast and commute. melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. ea>> storm t 4 meteorologist amelia draper is keeping an eye on the radar. amelia? >> well, dealing with widespread rain right now. the entire d.c. metro area through southern maryland. up into parts onorthern maryland, dealing with showers and moderate rain. look at the yellows on storm team 4 radar. aroundhe i-81 corridor, i am tracking dry conditions. if you're dealing with rain, you're going to continue to deal with rain over the next f hours. and then we're going to see storms later today. that's why we're in weather alert mode. epping out brellas s your door. some of this moderate rain falling out around sterling in ashburn, through gainesville, along 15 and 66. the manassas area, fairfax and tyson's dealing with some moderate, even heavy rain out tre now. the temperature of 66. we'll see rain for the next few hours. then we start to more