right now at 11:00, rain, wind, and plenty of lightning. storm te is watching this storm system, and we're not the only ones in the cross hairs, plus -- the silver line is now open.

tomorrow mni will be the first big test with the monday morning commute. we'll havyt you need to know for a smooth ride ahead. governor on trial. tonight t first couple is getting ready for their day in court. a stormy end to our weekend right now. we're tracking a line of rain and storms threatening our area. amelia starts us off with the latest. >> well, chris, thunderstorms really contained to frederick county. arias to theoh were starting to see this activity get more weak as it continu to push towards washington. as we lookt storm team 4 radar, rig now, let's talk about the alerts. a severe thunderstorm watch for the counties in pink. this includes frederick county and carroll county in maryland. a tornado watch for parts of the

shenando valley. this until 3:00 this morning. all of this activity developing ahead of a cold front. this front moves through our area throuou the day tomorrow. now here on storm team 4 radar you can see heavy rain. lots of thunder and lightning making it way through frederick county, loudon county and areas back to the west just seeing showery activities. so the severe weather threat really diminishing for most of the area. we're going to keep a close eye on this storm in frederick county that will quickly be leaving. and then continuing toward townsend after midnight. any thundo frederick county, the concern now high winds and heavy rain. thunderstor for tomorrow, will it be severe. we'll let you know? and it has been a wild day of weather across the country. intense lightning lit up the sky in chicagoli and in

other parts of the country there was large hail, high winds, and at least one tornado touchdown. the seve storm system is now threatening than 100 million people from the mid atlanticth northeast. now take a look at this. a tornado in tennessee caught on camera. this is just one of the ones that hit the area. another tornado badly damaged this town in tennessee. it destroyed ten homes and left a lot of debris to be cleaned up. but al, so far, no reports of anyone being seriously hurt. now remember, you can always stay ahead of the storms with the lates updates on the palm of your hand. just download the storm team 4 app. it's available for free from the app store or google play. it could be a game changer for northn virginia. in just few hours, metro's new silver linll be put to the test when riders will use the new line for the very first time to get to work.

thousands commuters are expected crowd the new silver line statnsn the morning. and news 4's darcy spencer is live for us in tyson's. >> report: it is very quiet here this night on tyson's square. very diffent how it was on opening day, 32,000 people rode the si line. they're n sure how many will ride tomorrow, but they say they are absolutely ready. are you going to commuten this silver line? >> oh, yeah. >> report jason mccoy will be among the rssur commuters tomoow on the newly opened silver line? >> i imagine there's going to be a lot of people. >> report: opened saturday afternoon big crowds just wanting to ride metro's first new line in years, visit tyson's corner to do some shopping. >> it is nice. very nice, and clean and new, and people just need to come on out. >> repor:monday, trains

at the fin stations will be packed with hour commuters. ron gaskin commutes to falls church. he and others are considering using the lv line. will you be riding tomorrow? >> probably not tomorrow. but in the future it's a great possibili >> rorr: you'll want to plan ahead if you have a car. only one of the five stio has a pne parking lot. one has a 2300-space garage. don't park at the mall and don't park illegally in lots in the area. you cod get towed. rebecca is expecting more people to come nto ru ton now that it's just a train ride away. silver line trains will run every six minutes during rush hour. every 12 minutes during midday,

evenings weekends. tens of thousands of daily riders are expected. >> are you going to venture out on the silver line tomorrow? >> of course, yeah, just to see where it takes me and see what the stations look like. yeah, it's going to be busy. >> report: everyone expects it to be ve busy tomorrow. metro officials tell me tonight that they' going to have extra staff out at all five new stations help all those new riders na the system. those trains start riding 5:00 tomorrow morning. reporting ftyson's corner. darcy spencer. the morning coute is going to be a lot different four many riders, n just on the silver line. riders on the blue and orange lines wil have more wait times. we want to know how your commute goes. tweet your pictures using the #firstride nbc.

and our reporter will be live tomorrow ng letting you know how it's all going. news 4 today begins at 4:26 in the morning. it has been 20 years since metro had new line but it's been 50 si streetcars ran in the district. streetcar service along the h street benning road corridor will begi later this year. d.-dot will be doing tests. they are handing out tickets for drivers who double park on block the streetcar route. you could be fined $100. new details tonight about a homicide ieson in gaithersb maryland. police now say the husband of a woman fou d is now in custody. officers reported to the couple's town home on hallmark court thi g after getting a 911 call that something suspicioud happened there. investigat s they'd been to the home before. >> at least one time within the

last year. we were here for a domestic case. dispute. >> police have not yet revealed a motive. in just a few hours, former virginia governor mcdonnell and his wife will be in court to fight fera corruption charges. their trial in richmond begins tomorrow mn prosecutory took gift the and money from a businessman and agreed to promote his products. northern bureau chief is in richmond with what to expect tomorrow. >> pr:t quiet here, but alrea media trucks have started to queue up for what will be one of the most high-pro trials in virginia history. former goorcdonnell and his wife maureen will face charges. they face 14 counts, accused of

acceptingft and loans from a businessmn exchange for help in promoting his dietary supplemecompany. that businessman is the prosecuti switness, and he will testify with the protection immunity. defense attorneys for the governor will work to undermine his credibility. they'll al aue that mcdonnell didn't do any special favors for williams. jury selec is expected to dominate tir of the trial. 150spti jurors have been show up at the courthouse at 10:00 for a trial that could last moreh five weeks. >> and julie carey will be inside the courtroom as the trial gets under way. and stay with news 4 and nbc washingtonom we'll be updating all the developmein case. a frantic search tonight after a local man fell into the water near pretty boy dam in baltimore county. and tonige'rng at he's from area. he's from alexandria, virginia.

someone spotted m hanging over the dam friday night and then falling i police sa is a recovery mission. th a monitoring the water near that dam, but it's too dangerous divers in. tonight the temporary truce has ended, and the back and forth fighting continues between israel a hamas. the united nations had urged a 24-hour extension of the cease-firebu both sides are blaming e other for breaking it. the extra time was intended to allow victims to search through the rubblf bodies. the 20-day war has killed more than 1,000 palestinians and 43is rail el soldiers. d.c. trying to figure out what the next move is now that a judge has struck down the

measure t prevent carrying guns. news 4 spoke with one of those who brought the lawsuit challengi the city ban. >> the city needs to come up with a, with a license policy that assures the right of law-abi citizens to carry a firear >> i j don't believe that it should legal. i justh it's a more healthy society if indeed we're not allowed carry guns. >> rert d.c. council chair tommy wells called the judge's decisiorr idea. he said he'll work with the attorne he ger to determine what the ne step should be. a day along the shore turns into a nightmare. >> dark clouds, lightning, and we got, everybody on the beach pretty got zapped. picy they've never

seen yt li it. a sudden storm. these beachgoers were jusnot prepar for. plus -- >> now we don't have a hospital. so it's ripped the econom heart out of our town. speaking up and hitting the road. why a mayor's crusade has brought m here to our area. >> and it's a busy night for our storm tm 4. we're keeping a close eye on the storm whos go to see the worst of it and when. let hit the road. we are heading down to richmond tonight sports final. the pads go on, the competition goes up at training camp. a day in the cleats of the redski ladies man. redski ladies man. plus jef

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new t lapse video tonight shows the costa concordia's final voyage. the crippled cruise ship reached port tod where it will be broken up store crap metal. it capsized off the coast of italy. t towing it back to shore is the most expensive operation ever. it cost$1.5 billion. 80% of i will be recycled. a uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his car is now arrested. officers arrested the driver and charged him with second degree sexual abuse. the alleged incident happened

last sunday near rhode island avenue and 14th street northwes well, he is making a nearly 300-mile journey to the nation's capitol to demand medicaid expansi d tod made a time stop in virginia. alexandri mayor welcomed o'neill to town. he is the mayor of north carola. he is a republican and began walking to washington, d.c. on foot, hoping to bring attention to rejecting obamacare's medicaid expansion. he sa his small town hospital was force to close. >> th ok ergcy services away from 20,000 people. that's one of the reasons that we walk, to bring attention to that. >> like nortcarolina, virginia has opted not to expand medicid o'nei wil finish his walk to the capitol tomorrow. we it was a day when they put tirwn lives on the line.

a group of d.c. firefighters ran inside this burning home to rescue people trapped inside. while one person died, three other ple pulled from the home survived. and today, these firefighters were honored with valor awards. >> and for the men that we recognize toy to go through the walls of flame that they had to go tgh to get to the citizensd bring them out was just an extraordinary feat on their part. >> the firefighters say it was a humbling exrnce, and they would do it again if that's what was needed to save lives. developing tonight, beachgo in southern californ say it was the loudest thunder they have ever heard. lightning strikes 14 people on the famed venice beach boardwalk. some of them were in the water when the storm hit. tonighte've learned that a 20-year-od man died. two other people were critically

hurt. dark sto clouds rolled through and the t lightning hit. now speaking of severe weath, len our area had different expeences. >> absolutely. like we talked about at 6:, the st chan of thunderstorms would beth of washington. that's exactly what we're seeing now. some of that activity moving through hagerstown and frede. the threat of severe weather really diminishing across the area. look athe current temperaes. you canee where the rain has moved through. you're looking at much more comforbe temperatures. 66 degrees is the current temperate in hagerstown. 70 in frederick, the temperature still a80 muggy degrees in washingto it is humid outside. the goo news, the humidity will be lowering overnight tonight and throhe day tomorrow. you cn these showers and storms qly moving off to the east righ now. still impacting parting of the northi think washington will

have light rain tonight, thunderrmare unlikely at this point. as we're seeing this activity ten to weaken. you can see the lightning falling out of the storms, and we're al looking at the colors here on storm team 4 radar. heavy indicated by colors like orange and red, light, more steady ran indicated by colors like gn. we're sg more green on the map, and that is good news for us. howev, e national werth service still has a tornado watch out for parts of the shenanah valley. and a severe thunderstorm watch for the counties in pink until 2:00. i do think they will be dropping these watches shortly because we are seeing the severe weather threat greatly dill inchish across the area. by noon, still some light showers around. 2:00, tracking that area to the east of i-95. and after that we will become mainly quiet. so for tomorrow, the weather having a l impact on your day, a nice breeze, but there could be an afternoon storm.

the good news, the risk of severe weather tomorrow is non-ent. just one of those isolated late day storms is possible as late as 7:00. tomorro temperatures in the 80s. 7:00, mstof t area la be dry and nice with a temperature of 78. a high tomorrow in culpepper of 85, and 83 in annapolis. still, a okay pool day tomorrw. but aulous pool day or whatever y want to do outside tuesday, dny, and thursda i can't stress how much the weathewill be awesome. spectar, hav word you want to use tuesday, wednesday, and thursd. low humidity, plenty of sunshow 80s on tuesday, mid-80s on wednesday, low 90s on

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to richmond a lot for the next few weeks. the plays will be in pads once again too making it the thirdtrda they've

strapped o the gear. not onl gruden want this team be more physical, he's also looking to build trust. >> repor one of the big els objectivto cmiry treen robert griffin iii his receiver what do you like most about what he's doing? >> you know, he's still being accounta he's making it easy even when he's me up sometimes. that's part of being profess just in what it is that you missed up on and just correcting it is the best i can say. >> the only thing i'm hearing about y that you're putting yourselou. when you hear that from your teammate wt does that actually even mean or when they' saying that, why do you think ty' saying that? >> i think they're saying that because obviously there's no beating last year. there's people questioning my accountability. i think my teammates took that

to heart, and they have come to me and told me that they've always thought i've been request theable. i thin accountable. i'll us accountable to them, to what we do as a team. and everybody's feeling good. hopeful we'll continue to feel good as we go through the season and stt winning games. >> repo: things are about t heat up. monday morning they will practice full pads. the good news, no injuries. over in baseball now, series finale e e nationals and the reds. top of the fifth, nats are up a run. adam roesh. and anthony rendon comes home to score. it's a 2-1 single. and t nats are up 3-0. troubler the nationals now. two on for devin maz raw coe.

and he takes soriano's pitch. one run scores easley. spann g i in. it's a two-run double for mez raw coe. and a few batters later, chris hiezy, the man on third hits it deep to center, not deep enough. spann th they te the series 4-2 as your final score. world tm tennis championships. castle looking to make it a four, taking on the springfield lasers. mixed doubles. and lee ander. fifth title in sex years. hingiwa selected in the final the i st plenty more to come on sports final. we take a ride with ryan keergen and find out what it's like being one of the fan favorites when carol maloney joins me.

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amelia is here to take us through e evening and into the monday. >> well, some good news, as i mentied en 15 minutes ago, i thought that the national weather servi would drop the severe thunderstorm watch. they did drop that. so just some showery activity

moving t the area. you can see thunderstorms racing off, though, through carroll county making their way through baltimor mosof the area tonight, just some ligh rain will be moving through tomorroow humidity, a high temperat 86 degrees, mostly to partly cloudy skies. beautifu tuesday, wednesday, thursday >> beautiful. thanks being with us. sports final is next. don't mi tomorrow

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