time to go. so that's what we did. >> i never seen it this bad ever. >> get out, dude! >> all right, buddy. c'mon, get up out of that water. >> want a hand up, ma'am? >> there are still some significant threats out there. >> they have been in the water since 4:00 a.m. this morning. >> houston has demonstrated this past week. jonathan: the pictures, the video, the stories are heartbreaking. harvey continues the path of destruction in texas. texas now six days, six days catastrophic rain and flooding. just moments ago, look at this. rescue at a flooded nursing home in beaumont, texas. residents stranded. some in the wheelchairs in the water up to their chest. michelle: not far away a shelter flooded. this is supposed to be a safe zone. the water there knee-high. nancy: harvey on the move as the rescue crews make their way to the houston area neighborhoods. at least 17 more deaths being

jonathan: so many under water. tens of thousands of homes we now know completely destroyed. michelle: team coverage on abc7 begins with marci gonzalez in houston. marci: relentless downpours as harvey moves northeast. burying areas along the texas-louisiana border under fast rising floodwaters. people and pets pulled to safety by first responders and selfless strangers. back out in their own boats today saving living. >> they will just keep bringing boatloads of people out to the truck and load them up, get them out of the area. marci: more rescues for hard-hit houston. the sky is now clear but water is inundating homes. estimate 30% of the county, 1,700 square miles is now flooded. >> people are calling out. they have been stranded for days. marci: with the water receding in some places the death toll from the monstrous storm is climbing. police finding six family members who died

>> our worst fears have been realized. marci: today evacuations at this shelter in port arthur, texas. as much as four feet of water pouring in. >> water is coming in from every angle. it's coming in from the bathroom. it's coming in from the back door, the front door. marci: more than 32,000 people are living shelters in texas from the overcrowded convention center to churches and mosques. some are reaching capacity. but there is still space at this shelter where they are not calling the people staying here evacuees. instead, they are referring to them as guests and neighbors. trying to make them feel as comfortable as possible. so many people are showing up here to help, they have actually had to turn volunteers away. in houston, marci gonzalez, abc7 news. jonathan: i want to show you something, too. this is virginia task force one. we are getting images of those guys at work. they do amazing work. they are in houston now. the el

the destruction for the first time. the virginia national guard is also being activated. some of the members will be headed down to texas. but do keep in mind there are teams from all over the country down doing the same thing. all of them are busy still making rescues now. michelle: some of the tiniest victims of harvey are taking shelter in a fort worth hospital. baby sophia arrived six weeks early struggling to breathe. she was waiting for surgery in corpus christi when hurricane harvey hit. >> i was scared because i was like where is my daughter going to go? michelle: the baby was transferred to fort worth. as i mentioned the trip could be a blessing in disguise. here is why. this is an opportunity for her to be seen by even more specialists with new treatment options. she was one of six nicu babies evacuated. nancy: take a look at the rescue. human chain forming to reach a pregnant woman who had gone into labor. they are holding

gave birth to healthy baby girl. michelle: thank goodness. the images are so striking. damage is unimaginable. so many families will have to rebuild from scratch. pay for it out of their own pocket. no insurance. the amount of support for the area is incredible with donations poring in to organizations -- pouring in to organizations across the country. amy aubert continues team coverage with how you can help. amy: a church in damascus is collecting supplies for those affected by the flooding in houston. they are getting everything from socks to soaps. >> i tried to imagine what is it like to lose everything. >> church members at different make irchurch collecting just about everything for those affected by the flooding in houston. they started collecting supplies on monday and by midweek the outdoor buildings sit about a third of the way full. >> it changes the heart of

good. you know? people are good. they want to do something to help other people. amy: they are planning to load all the supplies on a truck and take them down to texas. on tuesday. in damascus, amy aubert, abc7 news. jonathan: we have moved in the weather center now. stormwatch7's chief meteorologist doug hill. we are hearing amazing stories. one stories i was telling a second ago, one of the levees had a problem. somebody took a picture and put it on facebook. a pile of sand. dozens of homeowners showed up with shovels and worked together with the first responders, they filled the hole. the levee hold. no problem there. the airports may reopen for business at some point here. doug: the word is they are opening now. george bush intercontinental is north of town. hobby is southeast of the city. they said wednesday before the airports could open and now they are open. it's heartening to see with the distress and the sadness and the tragedy there in these situations folks pull together. it's amazing. jonathan: the volunteer

country. they have the cajun group, the coast guard, they are doing phenomenal work. heart warming. at the same tame it's heartbreaking to see the damage. doug: tell you the weather story here, john, as far as what is happening in the area. the rain moved out finally. we look at the animation loop for three hours worth of the animation in houston area. there was nothing to see. it's gone. it's moved north, northwest to the east and it's spreading out. the moisture area is slowly and surely heading in our direction. the latest shows the 35 miles northwest of lake charles. we get an update here shortly. 2:00 p.m. still 40 miles per hour winds. tracking the move north. remember through all of this, the heaviest rain to the east of the system. and the northeast. that will move in our direction. saturday is a rainy day in the area. few clouds. delightful afternoon. we head through the evening hours. we will see the temperatures drop in the 60's. partly sunny for a while. partly cloudy for the rest of the night. by

partly cloudy skies. 68. tomorrow looking nice with the sunshine, low 80's. we talk about the rain for weekend, labor day and the big storm in the far eastern atlantic. nancy: we'll see you then. thank you. stay with abc7 for continuing coverage as we track harvey's path of destruction. bottom of the hour look forward to rebuilding efforts as well as a closer look at why prices at the pump may be higher for an extended period of time. if you have to step away you can get updates online at wjla.com. at home, days before stafford county public schools opened for the 2017 school year. concerns of led in the water in several buildings. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is in stafford as the parents are raising red flags. jeff? jeff: that is right. school starts in tuesday on stafford county. it's open house for middle schools. the

is the e-mail that went out yesterday saying the led levels are high at six schools across stafford county including wright middle school and garrisonville elementary school. the results are still pending for rockhill elementary school as well. now what happened was in the middle of august, stafford county schools tested waiter at all 12 -- water at all 12 schools. to come play with the new regulations for the virginia department of education. district has received results from six of the 12 schools and all have more, have fountains or taps like these with the levels of the led above the e.p.a. threshold of what is considered safe. the test results for the other six older schools are still pending. all the fountains are shut down or the signage has been posted. >> as to why suddenly this is happening, the few days the kids are coming to school. >> i'm more cautious than anything else. but you know, i'm

schools with the pipe system and stuff like that that aren't new. >> in a statement to abc7, stafford county public school saying it's important to note that findings are isolated. test results and other part of the schools are well below action levels. please be assured that all students and staff are safe. the school district says bottled water will be available at all schools in abundance as the effort to clean up and further test the water continues. coming up at 5:00, we will take a look at how some parents are coping to start school under the new and the unexpected circumstances. until then, live in stafford county, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. crews broke ground on the purple line monday. today folks who use the georgetown branch trail discovered it is about to close for up to five years. montgomery county reporter kevin lewis has the story. this came as a surprise to me. kevin: certainly. walkers, runners, bikers, they

shout to us. "don't close the trail." he kept biking down. the purple line has been a contentious topic from the get-go in large part it does stand to impact this beloved path. now yesterday, officials posted a notice online stating that a 3.5-mile stretch of the trail will close on tuesday. it is the portion between downtown bethesda and silver spring. the real kicker here is that the closure is expected to last between four and five years. officials now distributing a map. the purple representing the soon to be closed george-up to branch trail. the red is the new detour which will route people on to jones bridge road and other area streets that are not equipped with bike lanes. among the dissenters the varsity cross country team at bethesda chevy chase high school. >> we pretty much use this trail to practice on every day. we do all ofou

all of the easy runs here. so not having it is going to be a really big hindrance to training. >> i think it's a disaster personally. you know? a lot of people use the trail. thousands of people every day. this is going to have a big impact on people. >> i should have figured out, i would think, some way that people could use the trail while they are working on it. putting all the people on the road, i can see accidents happening. >> just this afternoon we saw workers wearing, walking the trail wearing safety vests and hard hats with purple line written on them. again, this trail is set to close to the public on tuesday. as construction of the light rail project begins. live in chevy chase, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. jonathan: a long time coming. thanks. just in the newsroom a bus driver facing criminal charges regarding an accident that happened in may out on interstate 95. that is t

full of kids and parents traveling on a field trip in philadelphia to d.c. crashed into a car. remember this? a recording taken from the bus shows the bus switching lanes, forcing a car on to the shoulder before the video abruptly ends. 26 people were hurt in this crash. the driver is now being accused of negligent driving. coming up for us at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- a child calls 911 from the backseat. now his mother is charged with d.u.i. michelle: plus, a big break in this case. police find the woman who they say threw a cup of urine on a metro bus driver. the charges next. >> oh my gosh. nancy: scary scene. a man dragged down the street. his pants ripped off. but the police say he is no victim. what really happened in the video ahead. jonathan: still ahead for us, children are too sick to go to the zoo. so it's coming to them. >> i feel like carter gets to act like a normal baby when he isw

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nancy: update about the disturbing video of a woman throwing urine on a metro bus driver in northeast. we brought it to you yesterday. now we know that police arrested opal brown today for assault.

cup and threw it on the driver. jonathan: take a look at what went down in washington state. caught on camera. show you a car. a guy hanging on to the door. you are thinking what happened? is this a domestic deal? something gone wrong in no. he was trying to carjack the driver and the driver stops and away he goes again realizing he is in trouble. so he is tracking the guy. the guy's drawers come down. he's being scuffed up by the afault. -- asphalt and this was an attempted carjacking and the driver did the right thing. >> i thought maybe he upset his wife or something like that. she was driving off without him. >> you didn't think a guy was trying to steal the car? >> no. jonathan: great caption contest for the social media. the guy did beat up a few drivers before stealing other cars on wednesday. this is video of one of the incidents. police did catch this guy finally arrested

michelle: a 911 call police in oregon couldn't believe they were taking. 11-year-old boy frightened by his mother's driving calls police from the backseat. now she facing drunk driving test after she failed the sobriety test. >> he felt in danger enough to reach out and call us. we have her walk a line. look at her feet. michelle: her blood content level was twice the legal limit. nancy: adding to the construction, new concerns about he in the wake of harvey. there is a growing healthcare crisis that stems from this natural disaster. >> normal day-to-day routines are disrupted. drugstore you normally go to, you can't get to. the medication that you normally pick up, you can't pick up. the dialysis that you normally receive two times a week you can't get to that. nancy: that was tom

pharmacies in the affected area and 200 of them are shut down by the storm damage. healthcare units have been set up in some shelters. so federal medical station is available. michelle: for the first time since thursday night the threat of rain no longer hanging over the houston area. nearly a full week and 50 inches of rain later the sun is out. we are just outside of houston and sonya, it's shining a light on how bad things are right now. i know you have been on the ground from the very beginning. tell us what the last 124 hours have been like? >> you are talking about how the sun is out. it's stopped raining. we had so much hope that the storm was over. technically the storm has moved east a little bit. but here in the houston area and the surrounding areas water still continues to be a big threat. i'm in a neighborhood in richmond, texas.

water has been rising all day. people did evacuate when they were told to. but you can see the brazso river behind the property come out of the banks. you know, this water is still strong. it's still very difficult. but in some other part of the area, the water recedeed. houston's leadership is telling people not to go back in the homes just yet. it's still a dangerous situation. you can have unstable structures there. but this break in the rain, the break in, you know, the darkness of the storm has given rescuers and the first responders the opportunity to try to look inside of the cars and areas that were previously covered by water. so far 28 people have been killed by the storm. one story in particular breaking a lot of hearts is the story of a family of six that was trapped in a van. it was two grand parents in their 80's and four grand children. all of those bodies have been

recovered. michelle: the human toll of the storm is tragic. sonya live for us in houston. thank you. jonathan: breaks your heart to hear the stories. this is tropical storm irma. it's not the storm that rode up the carolina coast bringing us rain. this one is spinning in the northeastern atlantic much closer to africa. at least for now. it seems like it's been a busy storm season so far. nancy: doug, you talked about yesterday's storm that could form to irma. doug: a lot of tropical characterrics. but more like a rainstorm. but irma is a strong tropical storm and will probably become hurricane tomorrow. the track is taking it westward for the next seven or eight days. we'll have the 5:00 update. in the meantime, nice weather today. remember how awful the pictures were at the beach? rehoboth beach was g

terrible. the beaches are filled. end of vacation season for a lot of people. saving the last week in august for summer vacation with the family. they are enjoying it. it looks good. saturday to sunday are not so pleasant. as far as the numbers, partly sunny skies. 75 now in winchester. 77 in martinsburg. also reported right now at dulles. reagan national. joint base andrews. 76 in baltimore. here is harvey. it's spread out. that is what they do. the moisture is north and east of the system. it's really intense it wrapped around. but now it's spreading out. so the true circulation here. this is another trough of the low pressure north. we could get some of showers here ahead of that maybe late friday. it's saturday when the remnant circulation itself will be close enough to wind up kind of a rainy, chilly day here saturday. forecast for harvey's future rain or what

take you out through saturday evening. it is pretty healthy but small area. it will spreads eastward for saturday. i don't think it's terrible or threatening. but not pleasant outdoor weather day for saturday. but sunday and monday, labor day look so much better. overnight, partly cloudy. drop in 60's. tomorrow is partly sunny. 82. friday the clouds increase through the day. showers by the evening. look at the highs, feeling like fall again. highs of 67 degrees. for the rest of the jut look for the -- outlook for the labor day weekend rainy through saturday. high of 71. cloudy early on sunday but turning sunny in the afternoon up to 80 degrees. look at monday, labor day. plenty of sunshine, 84 degrees. you look at the next seven. we throw in three extra days with no charge. we have 82 tomorrow. 67 on friday. 40% chance of rain.

clearing sunday and labor day. 86, almost like summer again. it still is summer until september 20 by my read. tuesday and wednesday is 82. we turn cooler in the 70's. we head to the end of next week. michelle: we won't charge but we will leave a tip jar. jonathan: such a giver, doug. michelle: have you seen this stuffed animal? the alert put out by the national airport in an effort to help reunite it with the family coming up. >> patience at children's national health system. get a visit from friends at the maryland zoo. i'm cheryl conner. coming up, we will tell you about the launch of the san diego zoo

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jonathan: reagan national airport putting out an owl-point bulletin for this critter. a stuffed one. a 6-year-old lost his stuffed badger between the american airlines plane and the parking garage. the badger has been the child's sleeping companion since he was a baby. it's very friendly. it doesn't eat much. they do not caution you to stay away from it. pick it up and take it to the lost and found. nancy: looks like a busy life. michelle: beat up but hopefully the toy company that makes it will send the little boy a new one. jonathan: how smart would it be? if you have an inventory, ship it to the kid. will you? children's national medical center turned into a real zoo

cause. nancy: part of a program to give sick children chance to connect to animals. cheryl: for a few minutes, carter novack can focus on a penguin instead of his own health. not yet 2 years old, carter is fighting leukemia. >> they were diagnosed in the local town. an hour later we were on the helicopter headed to children's. cheryl: since that easter day, children have been home. today, mom and son and other patients got a visit from the maryland zoo showing off the exotic animals that are now featured on the san diego zoo channel. >> he is obsessed with it. it helps in the chemotherapy. >> today marks the launch. the san diego zoo channel now in all patient rooms at the children national

system. to celebrate the reptiles came out with a kinkajou that was entertaining and the head rabbit. >> the research and the evidence is starting to show that that leads to more healing, better healing and better outcomes when we do these things. >> the san diego zoo kids channel puts together animal stories from 30 zoos around the world. carter has one more round of chemotherapy, one more month of tapping into the animal world from his room. >> he gets to experience the world without worrying about being sick. >> in northwest washington, cheryl conner, abc7 news. >> we have been trying to figure out the animal. >> lion head rabbit. jonathan: what is cool is anytime you bring a dog or an animal in a hospital setting it changes everything for kids. if you put a smile on their face it's worth it. >> that is a great project. >> really great kids and animals, too. jonathan:

especially >> we'd love one here. next on "abc7 news at 4:00" -- mold in public housing. mother says her children are now sick and missing school. "7 on your side" goes inside and you won't believe what we found. jonathan: but first, the devastation from hurricane harvey. federal agencies playing a key role in the relief and the rebuilding. one-on-one with h.u.d. secretary ben carson on the daunting task ahea

announcer: you're watching "abc7 news at 4:00". on your side. michelle: tropical storm harvey impacting and shutting down many businesses. the chevron phillips chemical plant is flooded. it's one of the businesses. this is the baytown location. the company closed the headquarters until next tuesday. also the largest oil refinery in the country is also shut down. the port arthur refinery won't open until floodwaters recede. we want to check in with doug. talking about the waters receding. so many people waiting for that. but a lot of the rivers are waiting for them to crest. doug: it will take a long time for water level to go down. this part of the country is flat and kind of swampy to begin with. it has to get to the gulf of mexico eventually but it's a long process.

but the mud and the water drains out, a long way to go. long way to go. here, we have nothing to complain about. michelle: gorgeous out there. no humidity. doug: none. it's perfect. we may get the rain from harvey remnants by saturday. we'll see what happens. get you a proper escort to the studio. you go that way. turn left, then right. you're there. no problem. nats are playing another game. strasburg on the mound. second inning. the weather is just about ideal for baby or anything else. we see numbers drop through the lower 70's to the upper 60's with the partly cloudy skies heading through the nighttime hours. talk about the next system. this is irma. might have been a tropical storm and never had it in it but this one is. it's named and top winds of 50 miles per hour. as of the morning update. we get a new update at 5:00. they develop it to a category one hurricane with the 90 miles per hour winds possible by mo

a long way to go. no way to know if it heads to caribbean or the continental u.s. or anywhere else yet. we do see moisture ahead of the tropical storm harvey pushing northward. not technically rains from harvey. but associated with the low pressure. that could affect us friday night. tomorrow is gorgeous. 82. cooler behind a front on friday. temperatures heading through friday time we are looking at cool numbers indeed. only in the 60's. that is it throughout the day. we talk about the weekend. labor day and the next ten days in a couple of minutes. jonathan: we will see you then. just as hurricane harvey is posing extreme challenges for the people of texas and now louisiana. the federal government is pushed to the limit as well because of the enormity of this. one of the agencies that is doing something is the department of housing and urban development that supports 80,000 units in the storm's path. scott thuman talked today with the man

is live from the capitol hill bureau. i can't imagine how big of a job this is. scott: talk actioman's effort. it takes a -- oweman's effort. it takes a lot of people. you have literally dozens of agencies and the departments in the agencies in washington, d.c. that are steering a lot of the aid south. right into the middle of the storm. we took time to talk to the secretary of h.u.d. as well as those trying to solve a lot of big problems now. here is what he had to say. where cars once drove, now white caps. rescues far from done. thousands of homes under water. we spoke to secretary of housing and you are ban development ben carson who yesterday saw the damage with president trump. this is the first test for president trump and a first test for you as well.

it as a test but i look at it as an opportunity. >> is there something that h.u.d. is able to do now perhaps it couldn't do after the super storm sandy or hurricane katrina? >> recognizing some of the difficulties that people had after those. one of the first thing we have done is provide foreclosure relief. scott: faster access to mortgage and rehabilitation insurance top priorities even as shelters are flooded. >> the amount of rainfall that is now measuring in some places over 50 inches which is more than the annual rainfall. >> this is crazy. >> we are in new territory. when a lot of the water recedes you will begin to see shocking. scott: that is when h.u. d. through the community block grant program disaster relief has to tackle not just what is seen but what is not. the infrastructure underground that often has to hit first. but the agency is facing possible budget

will it hurt you? >> we are focusing on what has to be done. scott: just get it done. >> get it done. scott: right now secretary carson tells me they can tap in the residual from the current budget still available to them. but they are likely going to be going to congress as well as a lot of other agencies here on capitol hill asking for more money when they realize the full extent of the damage to the south. jonathan: thank you, scott. michelle: our viewers are doing their part. generous and tremendous outpouring of help yesterday in a "7 on your side" phone bank to raise funds for the investigates of hurricane harvey -- for the victims of hurricane harvey. jonathan: two hours we went at it and we teamed up with the iheart radio and miles per hour red cross. we are proud to tell you that you came through. here is "7 on your side" reporter nathan baca. >> "7 on your side." nathan: the phones never stopped ringing during the two hours "7 on your side" phone bank for the american red cross. for

personal. she is from houston. >> i am very grateful that my parents and my family are all dry and safe. my dad is working a lot for city of houston. he works for the power company. this is heartbreaking. this is where i grew up, where we used to play. and to see that much water is unreal. >> the entire "7 on your side" team partnered with iheart radio personalities to get the water out. every dollar donated helps. >> maybe do it in honor of your kid you get to come home to tonight or the warm bed you get to sleep in when so many don't have it now. >> the national capital region of the american red cross says money, not donated supplies is the best way to rush help where it is needed. >> we are feeding people, providing them shelter and helping them in the recovery which is going to be quite long. we are going to be at this for weeks, months a

the fema administrator it could be years. >> america's capital city coming together to help america's fourth largest city now under water. nathan baca, abc7 news. jonathan: they raised in excess of $30,000 and it was only open two hours. wonderful. you can still donate. by the time the volunteers left the station the number was actually $41,000. that again was in less than two hours. thank you so much. that is generous of you. michelle: a woman renting affordable housing in d.c. says her home is filled with mold. she claims that the land lord won't fix the problem. abc7 is on your side. d.c. bureau chief sam ford takes us inside. what did you find? sam: if you look here at this house, right now, actually the people have come to repair. there are people on the roof of the house. we are outside the house on

where the mother and three children live in a section 8 rental. they say it's literally making them sick because of the mold. workers were repairing a roof today. they say it has been leaking so badly for so long that the walls and much of the rest of the house are filled with mold. she lived here three years. ask d.c. housing to move her but to no end. her 11-year-old son suffers migraines. 14-year-old daughter asthma attacks. mold is on the walls, the furniture. she says she complains to d.c. housing that the land lord makes cosmetic repairs that don't fix the problem and housing so far has accepted. >> i keep this here to stop the wood. >> it's so bad i can't cut on

>> when they filed the report on the 17th of august that the d.c. housing acted right away. cited the land lord and gave the land lord 30 days to make repairs. the lady who lives here, the tenant insists this is not the first time that it has happened before. we went to knock on the door of the landlord who lives across the street. the land lord asked who is there. i identified myself and the land lord never responded. we have more on the story coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00". i'm sam ford, abc7 news. michelle: a double take. yes. t-rex taking over d.c.? the prehistoric protest marching through the nation's capital. the message next.

lost. apparently we are wasting time finding parking in the d.c. area. you won't believ

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michelle: two teenagers were shot on south dakota avenue northeast. one teenager was able to walk to the hospital. the other taken by ambulance. the search is on for the shooter. jonathan: president trump tweeting a threat to north korea saying, "the u.s. has been talking to north korea and paying them extortion money for 25 years. talking is not the

this comes two days after north korea fired a missile that flew right over the country. one of the allies, japan. north korea kim jong un witnessed the launch. news of it cheered by everyone in the country. how long are you willing to spend trying to find the perfect parking spot downtown? >> i circle around and around. guilty of that. apparently when it all adds up the average commuter will waste several days each year. >> it can be a headache trying to find parking spot downtown. it is something he experiences when he needs the truck in the city for work. >> sometimes it depends how bad it is. you could spend 35 minutes driving around. >> according to a new study drivers are wasting more than that trying to find a place to put the car. the study says the d.c. dr

looking for parking. that puts d.c. fourth on a list behind york, law enforcement, a and san francisco. the national average is just 17 hours. all that lost time costing drivers more than $1,300 annually. >> that sounds right. >> dave said he move to cut down on driving. according to the study the drivers may be paying more here in the city according to the study on average. the drivers are spending $350 more than they need to, to park in the city. that is because they overestimate the time they need to park and try to avoid getting a ticket. something ramirez knows well. >> it's like $16 or $20, $25 a day. >> many feel th

drivers across ten u.s. cities. in northwest washington, brianne carter, abc7 news. >> these pictures out of richmond, texas, sum up how difficult it's been for the rescue crews. they are finally getting r&r using the mattress showroom. the only place to find comfort between shifts. jonathan: nice to see so many stores aren't flooded and are opening up the doors to let folks get a rest. our sister station are teaming up to raise money for the hurricane harvey victims. the parent company sinclair broadcast group will match the first $100,000 donated. stay tuned for more information on how to help.

our weather is a beautiful day. doug: it is beautiful. we have a high overcast and way up there. if sun is shining through. i'm dim but take it over yesterday. get started to look ahead to the holiday weekend. temperatures now are very nice. 80 degrees in culpeper and charlottesville. the warm spot is 77 in washington. washington dulles, 72 in southern maryland and lexington park. 77 in the city of washington now. drop in 60's tonight. through the early evening we will hold in 70's. partly cloudy skies. the sun down tonight is 7:41. daylight hours are shrinking on us. the latest. on harvey. notice houston is outside of the rain finally. the period of sun today. still a lot of heavy rain. but the system will lift north and east. issue with the severe weather at times. some of the bands on the eastern flank. keep an eye on that.

we may deal with it on saturday. it's the liftover, the remnant circulation to swing west and southwest and bring rain to our area. it will be weaker. breeze and not much more. but it will provide rain across the region to get to early morning saturday. depending on the actual speed. maybe cloudiness could linger sunday. beyond that the weather picture improves dramatically. tomorrow is a nice day. 82 for a high. cold front coming through in the day. there could be an isolated shower. that is it. it will turn cooler on friday and stay chilly through saturday. 67 is the afternoon temperatures and period of rain on friday. the rain comes in saturday. period of rain and 71. breezy. sunday we brighten things up through the day. 80 in the afternoon. we pick up the labor day forecast.

the early fall preview continues in the 5:00 hour. irma may not be long before it's hurricane irma. jonathan: thank you, doug. coming up next for out at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- >> winning never gets old. >> you will meet ron. martial arts coach and accomplished fighter but more than that. see what makes him the

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jonathan: there is a martial arts expert in our area that has been through ups and downs in his life but that hasn't slowed him down from teaching what he loves. robert burton has more with the coach of the week. robert: he's not a guy you pick a fight with. for a simple reason. ron wheeler has been teaching martial arts for 30 years. practicing for 40. multiple gold medals. five foot trophies. even a hall of famer. boy does he love his life. >> some people have a job if i go in today, somebody is going to make the news. somebody will get it. i never get up with that feeling. rob: you can add pun lished author. the power of

a chapter about his mom who lost the battle with leukemia. >> she has seen me competitor of the year and do theater, stage combat. but she didn't get to see me go to china. my going was sport of dedicated to her. find him in old-up to alexandria, the u.f.c. gym where he is kickboxing every day of the week. >> the big trophies. you and the trophy are the same height. not just now but some of the students too. does it get old? >> winning never gets old. ever. robert: with the coach of the week, i'm robert burton. announcer: now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. >> it will be okay. >> it's wet over there. larry: tonight, tropical storm harvey is moving out of texas. 26 inches of rain in 24 hours are now flooding a nursing home

arthur. 33 counties are federal disaster areas. nancy: 21 people confirmed dead including four children and two adults found in the van. the houston officials are investigating 17 more deaths possibly related to the storm. larry: more than 30,000 other people are in at least 230 emergency shelters. any minute now limited operations are expected to resume at bush and hobby airport in houston. nancy: my coal fioro in i-10 in texas monitoring harvey path of destruction. >> we are on i-10 close to the public back to the louisiana border. you are seeing the trucks lined up. they are making a makelift boat launch working to save hundreds along the floodwaters in orange texas. >> orange, texas,

accessible by land. community fighting to make it to the makeshift shelter under the overpass on i-10. complete devastation well were unprepared for. >> it's just survival. i never would have dreamed it. day later we would be like houston. >> debra just one of hundreds here with nowhere to go. no way to get there. >> wheelchair in my truck. we just forgot. we hopped in the boat. >> no shoes and no medication. but grateful to be with her loved ones. for others there is anticipation and ange savety act when they will see the babies next. >> i can't wait to get to them. >> we were seeing her standing alone in her pajamas. completely distraught. >> this is awful. it's awful. >> you're shaking. >> i have been shaking since 3:00 this morning. praying that, i just kept praying it w