at 11:00 tonight, we'll have details on how robin williams died, as well as his strong connection to a d.c. resident. inside the house where a 3-year-old girl was shot.

i'll show you what happened and give you the latest on the investigation coming up. get ready, you are going to have to plan ahead for tomorw. rain and storms on the way. storm team 4 is timing i.t. all out for you tonight. shock and sadness tonight at the news that the man who made us laugh for so many years has died. >> robin williams was found dead a few hours ago. tonight, there is still a lot of questions even as we look back. nbc's stephanie stanton has the latest. >> reporter: the death of robin williams left his family, friends and a generation of fans across the world in shock. >> we lost a great, great person today. >> reporter: williams was found dead at his home north of san francisco today. an investigation into the cause of death is currently under way, although the county coroner's office's preliminary report

points to asphyxia. according to his publicist, williams had been suffering from depression for several weeks. he first captured america's attention on the sit-com "mork and mindy". >> good morning, vietnam! >> reporter: and his comic mania carried into movies playing a wartime deejay in "good morning, vietnam" brought him a golden globe. so did the role he played in "mrs. doubtfire." williams' style in his one-man shows and many talk show appearances endeared him to audiences and made him a favorite vocal talent for such animated films as "happy feet." but the juilliard-trained actor was also in "dead poets society" and "good will hunting."

the actor's wife released a statement saying, quote, as he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions. a gifted actor and comic genius whose sudden passing leaves those who knew him and those who watched him heartbroken. in 2009, robin williams underwent heart surgery but has made a full recovery. it appears he'd been working on several movies at the time of his death, including a possible remake of the '80s hit "mrs. doubtfire." robin williams is survived by his wife and three children. >> one of robin williams' most famous roles is based on a true story that had its originals right here in the bay area. patch adams was a doctor -- >> i'll be your surgeon. oh, there you are. >> reporter: the real patch adams grew up in arlington,

attended george washington university. he now livesn liis. when that movie came out in 1998, adams called the film inaccurate in the way it portrays his wife. as soon as news broke, reaction started pouring in. pam dawber said, i am completely and totally devastated. et even the president said, he was one of a kind. he arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. williams had been suffering with severe depression according to his spokesperson, a difficult reminder that mental illness can hit anybody, no matter how much money, fame or friends you hav if you know of anyone struggling with depression or other mental illnesses, crisislink is just one of the local places that ca help. they have a 24-hour hotline at 703-527-4077. you can also look at the

resources on changing minds at nbcwashington.com. a toddler was visiting relatives but she never got home again. she was shot after a fit between twme tonight, her mother is speakin out for t fstim shomari stone has our story. >> reporter: i'm walking into the bedroom where this 3-year-old girl washo you look over here. this is one of the bulles. her family wants your help catching the killer. the 3-year-old was a sweet girl who liked to swim, run at playgrounds. tonight, her mother speaks for the first time after her daughter was shot and killed on sunday. >> right now, i feel helpless. >> reporter: she said she and her daughter were visiting a cousin at this house in prince george's county. police say 25-year-old davon antwan wallace was also there

and was dating someone who lives in the house. he accused someone of wearing his clothes, got in an argument, walked away and allegedly returned with a gun. >> he came back with a gun and i was the one who seen him out the window running towards the house with the gun. >> reporter: seconds later, police say davon wallace fired several shots into the ho. take a look. her aunt allowed me to show you the room before she was hit. i counted six gunshot holes. she died at a hospital. tonight, wallace is still on the run and the toddler's grandmother hopes police catch him. >> i hope he burns in hell because he took a child's life. >> reporter: while the manhunt continues, a memorial pays tribute to the precious 3-year-old. tonight her mother has a message for the suspected killer -- >> turn yourself in. i can never see my baby again thanks to you.

>> reporter: you're looking at a bullet hole in the roof. just to let you know, the toddler would have turned 4 years old next month. in prince george's county, i'm shomari stone, nbc 4. there are more than 20 crime cameras in the neighborhoo where thataed. one of them was right across the street, but none of those cameras are working. it's a problem that has plagued prince george's county fo years. >> even from the beginning stages, we recognize the significant problems. there were a number of technical issues regarding keeping those cameras working, getting video from them and how they were being installed. >> police say the county looked into how much it would cost to fix those cameras and say it's more expensive than they're worth. storm team 4 tonight tracking what is about to be a very wet next 24 hours. veronica johnson is tracking what we'rgog s a . what's the timing of all this tomorrow? >> we've had the umbrellut alread

you're probably going to need the big umbrella at some poin tomorrow. we've been taking a look at radar here, tracking it throughout the day. we have been getting that rain. you can see right now we're in a bit of a hold. not much going on. but off to the west, temperatures are much cooler, winchester, pocket of moderate rain is llg er and things are going to pick up by tomorrow morning. the morning forecast, you need the big umbrella or no umbrella at all. but i think we'll be someer in betwe. it shouldn't be too crazy on area road the heavier stuff, the downpours will wait until tomorrow afternoon. i'll show you how much rain we'll get tomorrow. >> thank you. you can stay ahead of the weather anytime by downloading our storm team 4 weather app. new tonight, alexandria police warning of fake phone calls that appear to be coming

from the alexandria police department. officers say some people are receiving calls that show up on the caller id as the city's non-emergency phone number. it comes up at 703-746-4444. the caller then demands money for court or traffic fines and threatens arrest if payment isn't made. police say officers never demand money and that you should hang up the phone as soon as you get one of these calls. we now know that seven people were injured when a bus collided with two cars at a busy intersectiotoy. it happened at the height of rush hour at woodfield and fieldcrest roads in gaithersburg. an suv t-boned a bus at that intersection. you can see the damage from tha impact. five people on the bus, two from the other cars involved were taken to hospitals. they're all expectedbe these are the characterize of angry protesters for the

second straight day. they filled the streets of ferguson, missouri, demanding answers after police shot and killed an unarmed teenager. investigators say that young man, 18-year-old michael brown, got into a physical confrontation with a police officer inside a squad car. and that is when shots were fired. he was supposed to start college today. instead, his parents are in mourning. >> that was my firstborn son. >> he was a good boy. didn't deserve none of this. none of it. we need justice for our son. >> michael's parents are calling for an end to the violence in that area. during a vigil for their son last night, protesters lit fires, looted stores. the fbi now investigating and have promised justice. right now, a cease-fire

between israel and hamas appears to be holding nearly 24 hours after it began. it's supposed to be a 72-hour pause in the violence in gaza. to allow humanitarian aid int that area. it will also allow egypt to open indirect talks between israel and hamas in an effort to work out a more lasting truce. nearly 2,000 palestinians and 67 israelis have died in the month-long fighting. most of those killed were civilians. conflicting testimony today on how the governor supported a dietary supplement. this photograph of the governor with anatabloc was on the star scientific website. he pulled out a bottle during a meeting with state official a top aide claims he just mentioned it had helped m. and that she didn't think he had been asked to promote it. but the secretary of

administration testified that mcdonnell asked officials to meet with star scientific saying the supplement would be good fo the employe. mcdonnell and his wife maureen have been charged with helping that company in exchange for money and gifts. they trusted her with their children but tonight a nanny faces up to 20 years in prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from a montgomery county family. kadiatu kamara pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft today. we stopped by her home but she wasn't there. prosecutors say over the course of two years, she wrote more than 100 chec from the family's money market account. she used the $430,000 to gamble at a casino and even to buy a house in africa. she'll be sentenced in october. a runaway stroller and a near miss with disaster. elle with tell you why so many questions about this piece of video. a metro aalert, how scammer

are trying to target your commute.

incredible video tonight of a stroller getting sucked right onto some subway tracks. watch this. this happened last month in lond london. as a train leaves the station, the stroller with a child in it gets pulled onto the tracks. a man left the child in the stroller at the bottom of a stairs to go up and grab some luggage. a woman who saw the stroller jumped onto the tracks to sav the chil police released the video today

in hopes of finding the good samaritan and to make sure that the babwa'tnjed. metro hasn't said what caused part of the ceiling to fall at metro center. a ceiling tile came loose on the lower level and several other tiles had to be removed. this happened after rush hour this mornin nobody was injured. metro is issuing a warning tonight to be on the lookout for fraudulent smarttrip cards. those cards are often sold at a discounted price and the only way to guarantee you are getting the real thing is to pay the full price. they also suggest that you avoid buying the cards from individuals or online auction sites. metro suggests instead you buy from licensed vendors such as metro, cvs or grocery stores. metro says they will deactivate fraudulent metrocards even if they appeared to be legitimate.

a popular six flags america roller coaster now shut down until further notice. the amusement attraction's inspection unit is figuring out why riders spent hours stranded on the joker's jinx sunday, 80 feet off the ground. today, nbc 4 caught up with the two men in the front car. they'd ridden the amusement park many times before. and at first they started to snap a few photos as you see there. and then the reality sets in. >> i'm on the right side. so i'm leaning down and we're sideways. all i could see is where we would fall. pretty scary. >> prince george's county firefighters have trained in high-angle rescues on that exact ride and managed to pull everybody out sel six flags says all rides go through a daily inspection and roller coasters also have three independent inspections done every year.

a member of the kennedy clan issued a challenge to president obama, pour a bucket of ice over your head or pay up. 86-year-oldet ethel kennedy too part t cllge. she issued the challenge to president obama. no word on whether he has accepted. >> i say if you're going to do it, do it during the summer. >> makes a whole lot of sense. >> you could hardly tell it's summer around here. it's been absolutely beautiful, really fresh and crisp, even in the mornings. >> exactly. we haven't even had that high humidity. and we're going to get into another one of those little phases after a little hiccup in our nice conditions. we do have some wet pavement t there. so slow down if you're going to be heading out late or early, early tomorrow morning. wet pavement indeed and even some downpours, i think, that will come our way at a time

tomorrow, mainly during the afternoon. let's take a look at the radar. you can see, not seeing much rain at all right now. but to the west is where the rain has been for a good part o the day. these locations here around winchester and hagerstown towards charlottesville, this is where a lot of the rain will fall out of this weather system where there could be some locations picking up an inch and a half. early tomorrow morning, our roads will be wet. temperature at 69 degrees. that wind out of the southeast at 10 meserou and it's during the afternoon hours between 5:00 and 7:00 that the wind will start to pick so stormy, slow for the evening rush. this whole area through here, areas of southern maryland up into pennsylvania, there could even be some isolated thunderstorms bringing some

heavy downpours throughout the area or downpours, heavy rain, even some isolated high winds. temperatures have cooled to those areas around gaithersburg into the 60s around. that's where most of the rain has been. here's what we're going to be at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morn the heaviest rain around southern maryland, noontime, sits down here, areas down to the south. these locations, too, could pick up some higher amounts of rai by wednesday, i think after midnight tomorrow, we start to clear out and get back into a partly sunny sky. so the things will get a little sloppy for the afternoon and evening hours tomoow. 80 south and west. 77 around germantown. here's a look at that rain that's going to be coming into the area. generally around an inc a few locations would pick up an inch and a half. about 2 inches to the south. oakland, cumberland, could see over 2 inches of rain, too. your storm team 4 four-day

forecast, we stay below 80 degrees. again, it is going to be very cool. really not that humid t we get into wednesday, thursday of next week, 84, 83 degrees. friday right now, lots of sunshine, too. all these days here through the end of this week are going to be just absolutely delightful. the weekend, saturday, sunday, 85 degrees on saturda there's your fishing, vance. you talked about, no yard work. so i put up the fishing forecast. 88 on sunday. hot. but i don't think it's going to be all that humid. come this weekend, we get a little bit heat back early part of next week. >> i don't even want to think about winter. it's like, we've had such a nice summer, will we pay for it later? we're going to talk about sports. that's coming up. orioles' playoff chase. orioles' playoff chase. this cou

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for first-year head coach jay gruden. from an injury standpoint, any major issues appeared to be cleared up while tight end reeves still suffered from a stomach virus, jackson's ankle appears to have field. garcon's hamstring feels fine. on the field, coach gruden impressed with robert griffin iii and wants to see more growth from his quarterback, mentally. >> continue to drill it in his head that every play isn't a touchdown. he has to make the right decision. he's got the keys to the franchise in his hand. he's going to take us a long way. he's got to make the right decisions. we're counting on him to do that. >> reporter: a sure signp windi dow offense versus defense dance-off this afteoo chris baker defeating his opponent. a morning practice is all that' left here. the team will return and start

practicing in ashburn on thursday. >> expect to see the starters play a little bit more in preseason game number two. moving on to baseball now, the nationals were off tonight but they increased their lead over the braves in the standings. atlanta lost to the dodgers tonight. the nats are now up four games in the n.l. east division. the orioles may have bean the yankees but the victory came at a huge ic bud norris on the mound. top of the second, tied at 1. men on the corners. chase headley, throw by joseph and headley caught in a rundo he. beltran is going to head home from third. the throw home hit beltran in the helmet but watch this. norris flips to joseph who wasn't paying attention. headley comes home. he beats the throw. two runs score. weird play. yankees up 3-1. later on in the bottom of the third now, scary moment fot orioles.

he grabs his right knee. machado had the reconstructive surgery on his left knee inh off-sean. he was helped off the field. the o's are calling it a right knee sprain. mri tomorrow. machado's out. and crush delivers a moon shot to right. that one's a two-run blast, his 21st home run of the yea the birds are up 4-3 at this point. they win it over the yankees, 11-3, your final score. let's hope manny machado is okay once that mri takes place tomorrow morning. >> and let's hope the braves continue to lose because we can't seem to beat them.

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