for their family. thursday morning, they took their routine route to work. miguel says his uncle pedro was driving as they crossed over the woodrow wilson bridge when they hit 295 they started noticing a black pickup truck trailing behind them. miguel says the black car eventually passed them but then returned. that's when d.c. police say that vehicle pulled up beside them and opened fire, killing pedro and hitting miguel's father in his jaw. miguel says doctors are unable to remove the bullet from the side of his father's face because it's too close to a saliva gland. miguel says he's thankful his father is still alive, but he's grieving the loss of his uncle and praying police find the gunmen who changed their lives forever. now, miguel tells us that his father saw at least four or five suspects inside the vehicle before they opened fire.

police have not identified a suspect, a person of interest, or even given us a car description. but coming up at 6, what miguel says his father did that likely saved his life. reporting in southeast, meagan fitzgerald, news4. >> meagan, thank you. we're tracking changing weather conditions now. >> and our weekend is going to feel very different, isn't it, doug? >> well, it will be on the warm side for sure. temperatures going to be around 90 degrees tomorrow. right now we're in the low 80s. we have the chance for some storms. let'ing look at the storms on storm team4 radar. shower activity mostly toward the west but a couple of storms in through northern virginia, we saw them through southern maryland earlier. they've dried up. we're still looking at shower activity through prince william county. we had thunder with this. these are starting to die off. the big storms back toward luray and toms brook right along i-81 here, shenandoah and page kwoupty. look toward fredericksburg, storms firing up here, spotsylvania county a lot of

rain has fallen, sthunder and lightning there. as we move through the next couple of days, tibed hot for the weekend. we have a chance for strong storms. i'll break those down for you. then changing the forecast from yesterday for the wrest of the weekend and the rest of the week. i've got the change in a bit. well, nearly two dozen accused drug dealers are behind bars behind in prince william county as police bring a major operation to a close. our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey and her photographer were the only news team present during these raids. she found out about operation growing pains that is going after a particular group, dealers who sell drugs to high schoolers. and this is video that you will only see on news4. >> police search warrant! come to the door! >> reporter: this is not the kind of wake-up call anyone wants to get. and when the suspect doesn't come to the door, the door comes

down. across prince william county, this is how police moved in this week to grab drug dealers and execute search warrants. undercover officers wear masks to keep their identity concealed. at this brist toe townhouse, a 21-year-old was arrested and faces multiple drug charges. in a pre-raid briefings his was one of four profiled. the goal of operation growing pains, to close down a pipeline of drugs to teens. >> and of that 21 we're picking up today, the other critical thing is every one of those individuals was selling drugs to high school aged kids. or they are themselves in high school selling to other high school kids. >> reporter: police emerge with bags of evidence, several vehicles also searched. back at police headquarters, take a look at the spread of drugs, both pot and pills. there's a gun and cash. the marijuana gets tested. the money counted. >> this case in particular

involved cocaine sales marijuana sales, the marijuana wax, the concentrated marijuana. we see a lot of pills. >> reporter: but what they are also seeing is more violence tied to drug deals involving teens. they wanted to crack down now before another high schooler ends up dead. >> when you start actually robbing people and carrying guns, you know, that's -- we've reaped a new level there. it's not system am as kids smoking a little bit of marijuana. >> but the arrests are only half the operation. parent education is the next step. coming up at 6, i'll show you the newest and potentially very dangerous form of marijuana. if parents don't know what to look for, they might think it was spoiled food. back to you. >> interesting. julie carey thanks. well, the search is still on tonight for the person who shot and killed a reporter in southeast d.c. investigators visited with sharniece milton's family today. her parents say they was used as

a human shield during a shootout between two groups who were on dirt bikes on wednesday night. milton was waiting to take the bus home after covering a story on capitol hill when she was shot and killed. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where we're learning some new details about the allegations of sexual misconduct against former house speaker denny hastert. a law enforcement source telz nbc news the case involves payment hastert made to a man to conceal a sexual relationship that they had. this allegedly happened while the man whose identity has not been revealed was a teenager and student at the high school where hastert taught and coached wrestling. this was before he got into politics. a federal indictment against hastert accuses him of lying to the federal agents about cash withdrawals. hastert is accused of taking $1.7 million to give to the man. hastert apparently told investigators he was keeping the cash. he retired from congress in 207

and has been working as a lobbyist. his company said yesterday hastert has resigned. back to you. >> chris lawrence. chris thank you. big traffic changes are going into effect that will make it tougher to get in and out of the district, even if you commute by bus. news4's mark segraves live now at the memorial bridge with the impact for us. mark? >> reporter: hey, jim. yeah you can see the signs are up, the cones are out, and the lanes are closed on the memorial bridge. one lane in each direction closed. that's going to start leading to backups once we get to our normal traffic pattern next week. but the lane closures aren't the only restrictions that went into effect today, and these restrictions are going to have a big impact on your commute. the. >> the bridge is safe for 99% of the users. if you're in a car, suv, the bridge is perfectly safe. the people it affects the most are the buses. >> reporter: in addition to closing the curb lanes on each side of the memorial bridge to all traffic, buses won't be allowed on the bridge at all. the hundreds of buses that cross

this bridge each day are going to have to find another way to get across the potomac river. >> everywhere that's an alternate to get away from that bridge, it will be a mess. >> reporter: and these restrictions will be with us for a while. >> two curbside lanes should be reopened in the next six months or so. >> reporter: how about the weight restrictions? >> at this point the weight restrictions are indefinite. >> reporter: our partners at wtop radio know a thing or two about traffic and they're warning commuters there will be a ripple effect to the bridge restrictions. >> people will now realize i shouldn't be going across this memorial bridge so i'm going to choose to go across the roosevelt, it will be more than a ripple effect. >> reporter: now, of course, these restrictions come as part of the aging and deterioration of this bridge. coming up at 6:00 we'll tell you why this isn't the only bridge in our area that's in the shape that you have to worry about and what necessitateed these restrictions so urgently.

at the memorial bridge, mark segraves, news4. >> six months. mark, thank you. starting this monday you'll notice some lane closures along a heavily traveled bridge downtown. the national park service will begin repair work on the kutz bridge which runs across independence avenue. among the changes, crews will widen the south sidewalk so it meets with the americans with disabilities act and provides more room for pedestrians and cyclists. work is expected to last through early fall. well for the first time in more than 35 homeowners in prince george's county may have to pay higher property taxes. and that increase was included in a budget pass last night. that money is intended to cover the mandatory pensions in the county. it is not offering any new finding for the school. that has a lot of people unhappy. our county bureau chief tracy will kin has reaction from college park. >> my niece is graduating today. >> my nephew is graduating.

>> reporter: it's what it's all about, this moment. >> it's a new venture. she's getting ready to now move into another arena of life. >> reporter: what prince george's county is trying to figure out is how to get their students here and beyond so they can be competitive for the next phase of life. >> it's my first grandson to graduate. >> reporter: it's everything to patricia douglas. >> i think education is doing great, but i think they could do more. and not cutting out programs for the children. >> reporter: douglas says she would pay a higher property tax like what rushern baker suggested. she's disappointed the tax was revised down with nothing new for schools. >> our residents can't afford a 15.6% taxincrease. >> reporter: keown shill chair says the 4% will cover only state mandates to pay teacher pensions. additional money for school improvements will have to wait. >> it's not that we disagree in terms of the need.

the problem is how we pay for it and the council collectively determined that a 15.6% increase in property taxes was way too much. >> reporter: but to see her grandson here ready to go even further -- >> i will pay more taxes if i know it's going for the purpose it's going for. >> reporter: once a budget goes to the county executive, he'll have ten days to review it and he has the opportunity to do some line-item vetoes if he'd like to and then send it back to the county council. that could mean that his tax proposal could come back up. coming up on news4 at 6, why some residents say this whole thing is illegal. i'll explain. reporting live, i'm tracee wilkins wilkins. a gondola ride across the potomac might be nice this time of here and georgetown could be one step closer to that becoming a reality. plus, new developments in the case of a police officer and his mother both accused in a deadly shooting at a mcdonald's. we have a crew gathering reaction from the defense.

we're going to have that within the hour. a former coach and parent reaching out to us warning of a troubled past for a local little league. why he says more needs to be done to protect the kids. i'm tracking showers and thunderstorms right now across the area. notice this one right here just out of fredericksburg in spotsylvania county. severe thunderstorm warning until 5:30

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there are new kearns tonight over a fairfax county little league's troubled past. last week we told you federal agents have charged umpire don essex with distributing child pornography. well, after that report, a former coach and parent reached out to news4's david culver told him there's more to the story. >> reporter: if you wonder how much doland sullivan loves baseball, just look at his home office. >> that was the all-star team that won. >> reporter: trophies and signed baseballs sit on his shelves, memories of his coaching days. he coached for eight years up until 2006. his two boys, now grown, both played for the league. >> what i'm hoping is to raise a certain level of awareness. >> reporter: after we told you about league umpire don essex's arrest last week doland e-mailed us, tell me the league problems go beyond one umpire's

child porn problems. >> i didn't see in the report the connection to the other individuals. >> reporter: dolan tells me essex's arrest is only the latest in a string in the league. he pointed me to 2009. eric mincer, a former coach and umpire, he pleaded guilty to enticing a minor. just before that, ex-umpire jon hamm will ton was accused of molesting five boys. he later pleaded guilty. >> and we saw things, you know that were red flags with hamilton spending more time, you know, with individual kids within the league. >> reporter: hamilton's arrest wasn't overnight. he fled the country for several months, was picked up in poland and eventually brought back to face the charges. now serving a 55-year prison sentence. the connection to essex dolan says it's well known the two lived together. when hamilton was charged, some parents wanted the league to remove essex of his chief umpire position. >> we're not paying him. there's no employment contract. why can't we just separate

ourselves from this individual? >> reporter: the league's president told us that they didn't want to act without formal charges. dolan is it not placing blame but is forcing ft. hunt little league to be more proactive. at 6, what he wants done and how the league is responding. david culver, news4. a case involving a former anne arundel county executive could pave the way for more lawsuits against government officials. a maryland appeals court ruled today that people can sue elected leaders if their privacy rights are violated. john leopold is accused of getting personal information about political opponents from police without legitimate legal reasons. he was found guilty of misconduct in office. he stepped down back in 2013. well, there is still more in the investigation into the live anthrax samples mistakenly sent to labs across the country. chris lawrence is live in our newsroom with the latest on this. chris? >> wendy, another batch of live anthrax has tu, raising questions about the process the military uses to render those

deadly spores inactive. the live anthrax turned up in a sample that was sent to australia from an army lab in utah back in 2008. defense officials tell nbc news the anthrax spores were eradiated before they were sent to australia. officials say it appears the anthrax had not received enough radiation to render the spores inactive. experts say it's very difficult to inactivate a large batch of spores. the cdc is helping to investigate these ins departments and says the public is not in danger. jim? >> thank you chris. a special dedication earlier today for a fallen sheriff's deputy in stafford county, virginia. rocky run reservoir was dedicated in honor of deputy jason mooney. he died in a crash along i-95 back in 2007. depply mooney graduated from colonial forge high in stafford and also served in the marines. next memorial day the reservoir will become the county's newest park with lake mooney, offering

canoeing and fishg for visitors. a scare in the air for a flight from national airport. find out what one pilot had to avoid in midair. and a nightmare on the roads for drivers in texas. we have more dramatic video and stories of misery in the aftermath of that flooding. and just a couple of storms here right now. take a look at storm team4 radar. severe thunderstorm warning continues for eastern spotsylvania county very heavy rain falling right now just to the west of i-95 around the fredericksburg area. i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with more.

it's an idea that's been floating around for years. now it looks like plans are moving forward to maybe put some gondolas on the potomac river. "the washington post" says the d.c. council agreed to spend 35,000 for a feasibility study to determine if the gondolas make sense. the vessels could carry people over the potomac river between

georgetown and roz lan offering another mode of transportation. the study will look at all aspects of such a service, including whether it should be operated by the government or by private industry. >> announcer: and now your storm team4 forecast. taking a look at a couple of showers out there right now and a couple of thunderstorms. we still have the one severe thunderstorm warning toward spotsylvania county. let let's look at the radar. severe thunderstorm warning until 5:30, that's really the only storm in the game with the exception of back towards the shenandoah valley. here is the one in spotsylvania county, just south of fredericksburg, one just north of fredericksburg, too. you can see where the warning is on the east side of spotsylvania county. really under the gun right now, the town of spotsylvania lightning associated with that right along route 3 and then right out of fredericksburg south and west through the county here. a lot of lightning and really the biggest story here with these storms, very heavy

rainfall, this one right along i-95 dumping a lot of rain in a very short amount of time. and the storms are really not moving all that much. another storm just to the north of luray has had a lot of lightning associated with that, too, in toward shan do wa county, page county, warren county and around front royal just to the south and west. off toward the east we've got more showers and really this is some very heavy rain along route 50 if you're heading out toward the beaches, across the bay bridge, i do think you're gooding to run into problems on the roads because we have seen some reports of flooding out here towards the easton area. so heads-up in those areas. it will continue to be a problem. but not everybody is seeing that. downtown, we're beautiful. we're warm and rather humid. 85 degrees. look at that dew point, up to 70. anytime it's around 70 it's very muggy. that's xaktsly what we've got out there right now. temperatures 82 in gaithersburg, 88 in frederick manassas around 79 degrees with some cloud cover and a little shower activity around that region, 84 toward fred ricksburgh. here is your future weather tonight. if you're going out this evening, i don't think you have

any problems weatherwise. actually a very nice friday night. tomorrow morning starting off on a good note cloud cover for sure. but look where the rain. mostly back toward the west, the blue ridge and shenandoah valley. that's where it should stay. there's a slight chance of showers along some of the boundaries toward southern maryland. that would be the bay breeze, maybe the river breeze coming in creating some boundaries. but look, saturday mostly dry and rather hot. sunday the same deal. earlier yesterday it looked like we have a good chance of storms on sunday. i just do not see that happening now. any storms would be well to the north and west back toward western maryland western west virginia and pennsylvania. i think for us sunday stays dry. the big story now, though, will be on monday, the day we could see severe weather. high temperatures tomorrow around 90 degrees in d.c., 91 in fredericksburg, 89 in leesburg. it will get hot again tomorrow. we'll see partly sunny skies and a great day to hit the pool. if you're thinking about going to the pool looking good. the water temperature at the pool is nice and cold. so tomorrow with temperatures

getting up to 87 by 1:00, 90 by the afternoon we're looking at a perfect pool day. very refreshing to be out there tomorrow. the impact forecast we'll call it low to moderate. if you're outside in the heat and humidity, definitely on the moderate side. heads-up for that make sure you stay cool and hydrated tomorrow with a high of 90. 88 on sunday. just a 30% chance of storms mostly west. 87 on monday with a chance for some strong storms. that's when a front comes through. it no longer looks like we're going to get that northeasterly wind so i've raised the temperatures significantly tuesday and wednesday back into the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. yesterday it looked like we could be in the 60s. i don't see that happening anymore. >> all right, thank you doug. now to a developing story tonight. >> that double shooting outside the mcdonald's that has a cop and his mother under arrest we have a crew arriving in waldorf for the defense. they want to talk about the case. >> and most people remember every moment of their wedding day, but one woman says she doesn't remember a thing. we'll explain what happened and what her husband did about that.

and we'll tell you about your chance to be in "the wiz."

>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 5. to call the rains relentless is an understatement at this point. texas facing an entire weekend of severe weather after more storms pushed through last night. at least 27 people are confirmed dead now, 13 still missing. it has officially been the wettest month on record in that state with at least four inches of rain falling somewhere in texas for 23 straight days. rescue crews say that is making finding the missing even harder. >> at this point, we're still praying and hoping for the fact that we'll find somebody still breathing out there. this has not turned into a recovery mission yet. >> this morning, flooding from last night's rain caused a commuting nightmare in dallas,

stranding drivers for hours. kristi nelson from our sister station in dallas has that part of the story. >> reporter: it all started or more accurately, it all stopped at about 5:30 a.m. early kmulters headed to work, started to see taillights up ahead. >> traffic was moving. i guess people were trying to come through, but they started stalling out and they gave up. so i stayed over here to the side and i gave up, too. >> reporter: and so they sat for hours while traffic backed up behind them for miles and onto surface roads and side streets in every direction. >> i already called my boss so he said it's all right. i mean, i'm just really more hungry than anything. >> reporter: many of those trapped eventually gave up the shelter of their vehicles to sit on their hoods and on concrete barriers, waiting for any sign the water would recede. it never did. >> this is the first time i ever seen it like this and i've been in dallas all my life. they said there's five feet of

water. i go i need a boat to get to work now. >> reporter: some reported the water was only about knee high on the average man but after several cars stalled and an 18-wheeler got stuck on a surface road, few of these drivers wanted to risk it. >> most of these are cars, and most of them don't want to even try. they don't want to attempt ruining their motors or ruining their interiors. >> reporter: so they waited. >> we at a standstill. we can't go left, can't go right. we're at a freaking standstill. >> reporter: shortly before noon, crews from the texas department of transportation used cranes to lift and remove a couple of concrete barriers allowing some of the traffic to turn around and head back the other way. >> nbc's gray jay will join us at 6 tonight with the search effort in hard-hit wimberley texas. a drone got into the path of a plane that was leaving reagan national and forced that plane to climb hundreds of feet quickly. shuttle america flight 2708 from reagan to laguardia was in

midair when it alerted air traffic control there was a quad quadcopter drone heading toward the aircraft. the pilot had to climb 200 feet to avoid it. it did land in laguardia without incident and the faa is investigating. a federal crime in the skies over new york under investigation. state police searched this part of long island for suspects after several pilots reported someone aiming a green laser into their cockpit. tracie strahan from our sister station in new york now with some of the radio transmissions from the pilots. >> reporter: a helicopter circled beth page state park this morning just hours after this anxious exchange it between a pilot in those very skies and air traffic controllers at jfk. >> yeses we just got a laser strike. >> reporter: faa officials believe that green laser was pointed from an area four miles northwest of farmingdale to five different aircraft in a two-hour time frame. new york state park police were dispatched to find whomever was responsible tore for the potentially dangerous incident

targeting planes flying at 8,000 feet. the pilots all say it was aimed toward their left side. >> american 185. we just had a laser strike. left side. >> reporter: the planes all originated from jfk, including an american airlines to los angeles, a shuttle america flight to cleveland, and two delta flights, one to boston the other to buffalo. some country airlines flight 249 reported a green laser illuminated that aircraft when it was 14 miles southwest of jfk. the type of laser incidents that can distract or injure pilots have been an issue in this area in the past. a bronx man was arrested in march for pointing lasers at planes out of laguardia injuring the eyes of the pilot and two officers with the nypd aviation unit tracking him down. >> there's a new way to get a bird's-eye view now in new york city. the observatory at 1 world trade center is now open to the public. it begins on the building's 100th floor, giving you a view from more than 1200 feet above ground.

1 world trade center constructed as a remembrance of the september 11th attacks is the callest building in the western hemisphere. so imagine you're a newlywed who's just been in a car accident and it's wiped out every memory of that big day. that's what's happened to a woman in southwest virginia. now her husband and the community are coming together to give her a wedding she'll not forget. justice stamper says she suffered a concussion that erased more than a month of her memories. >> seeing the look on his face when i walked down the aisle to him would -- i would do anything and give anything just to have that moment back. >> reporter: a photographer and a deejay heard about the couple's story and now they are providing their services free of charge. the couple plans their second wedding on their first anniversary at the same gazebo where they originally tied the getting the first reaction on sentencing day for a montgomery county teacher convicted of groping students.

find out what one of his victims has to say years after the abuse. and saved by the bell. actor dustin diamond says he didn't mean to stab a guy in a bar. he explains what he was really doing there, next.

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auditions in our nbc washington app. "the wiz" live will air this december. former "saved by the bell" actor dustin diamond says he didn't mean to stab a man. diamond best known for his role as screech took the stand at his trial in wisconsin today. he's accused in an attack at a bar on christmas last year. the man he stabbed testified earlier that he didn't know he was hurt until he left that bar. on the witness stand today diamond described holding a knife to a group of people who had hit and harassed his girlfriend. >> a visible display of the knife would cause them i believed, to refrain from holding her arms back to be hit. >> diamond pleaded not guilty to recklessly endangered public safety. if convicted he faces up to ten years in prison. the president of fifa is warning european soccer that it could lose influence on his executive committee.

sepp blatter was reelected today despite investigations into the soccer organization for alleged corruption. european soccer supported blatter's opponent in the election saying change is needed in order for fifa to regain credibility. both the u.s. and switzerland are looking into possible corruption involving several high ranking fifa lieutenants. it's a special tribute that demands attention. >> some of d.c.'s most famous homegrown heroes will be part of a colorful celebration. we have a sneak peek at what will be making a very big debut in one of our more historic neighborhoods. >> reporter: i'm darcy spencer live in rockville. a former montgomery county substitute teacher was sentenced today for inappropriately touching female students. and for the first time, you're going to hear from one of those victims coming up. and most of us are on the dry side, but right now that is not the case. take a look between fredericksburg and spotsylvania a very strong storm dumping a very heavy amount of rain. we'll continue to track those

storms and i've got your weekend

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violating students pleaded for mercy during sentencing today. >> jose pineda asked for forgiveness for his actions and he wasn't the only one whose voice was heard in court. darcy spencer is live in rockville. darcy? >> reporter: wendy pineda for the first time expressed remorse for these crimes. he turned to the victims in court who were sitting right behind him and apologized. pineda had a lot of support in the courtroom today, including his mother, including his wife of 27 years, his children, other family members, describing as a wonderful man, the first to graduate from college, calling him a role model. but on the other side of this, we have the victim. she is speaking for the very first time saying the day that this happened she felt very ashamed and she cried all the way home. >> she was the first victim. >> reporter: she's known as victim "d" in court documents, the state's attorney and judge call her hero. she came forward more than ten years ago when she was in seventh grade at forest oak middle school in gaithersburg to

report that a substitute teacher, jose pineda, had touched her inappropriately in class. but the school didn't report the case to police. >> i'm just happy that it finally got resolved. >> reporter: since then, additional victims have come forward saying pineda also touched them while subing at three different montgomery county middle schools. he was arrested and later pleaded guilty to third degree sex offense and sex abuse of a minor. today, as part of a plea agreement, pineda was sentenced to five years in prison. >> i just want to thank god that it timely, after all of this these years, i'm happy that justice was served. >> reporter: in court, numerous friends and relatives described pineda as a good and honorable man, including his some said they didn't believe the allegations. but pineda admitted to the will crimes and asked for forgiveness after initially denying the charges. he said in part i plead guilty because i felt remorse. i would never do it again. but county state's attorney don mccarthy wasn't convinced.

>> the way that he serially victimized these individuals calls into question i think at some level the sincerity of that apology. >> as for "victim d," the crime happened back in 2004, but she said it still affects her today. >> i want to encourage parents to be more involved with their children's daily life. make simple questions like, how was your day in school you know. just get more involved. >> reporter: now, pineda will also have to register as a sex offender and could face deportation from this country. coming up on news4 at 6, i'll tell you what prosecutors found in his personnel file that they used to argue he should get the maximum sentence. back to you. >> darcy, thank you. it's the place where he learned of nixon's resignation and where he spent his first ten days as president. now there is concern changes to the property next to former president gerald ford's home in alexandria couldover shadow it. the people who own the property

nex door want to subdivide. some neighbors are concerned of a possible mansion popping up. president ford's home is listed in the national register of historic places. there's a lot of new sthings going up in washington these days. this is something you kbt miss, an art commission in shaw. it's not only adding color and creativity to the community. it's also honoring some of the people who helped shape this historical neighborhood. look closely at this piece of art. it's beautiful colorful. but what are you actually seeing? take a few steps back and it comes to life. >> the work embodies levels of composition that are very different up close and can be supported up close in this experience, but when you step back they become another complete image from a greater distance. >> these two works of art are part of a commission called symphony in d.c. major. and they'll soon be installed at the city market at "o," luxury

apartments and a giant in the shaw community. the pieces will highlight three important historical figures from the neighborhood colonel robert gould shaw, the first civil war commander to lead african-american soldiers, allma thomas an artist who spent most of her childhood in shaw, the first african-american to graduate from howard university's fine arts program. and jazz great duke ellington who grew up here in the neighborhood. >> for me, it's a way to tell a little bit of the story and some of the richness of the people who shamed not only shaw and d.c. but also shaped quite frankly, the world. >> the three works of art are going to be hung on this block and they're going to be huge 17 feet tall 16 feet wide. the artist zachary oxman wants them to be dynamic because he wants drivers and pedestrians to be able to experience them in their own unique way. >> i think it's important to not

only add this level of stark and consideration to what goes on new projects that are coming back to the city but actually create appointment create points that people may come to and really travel to this community to see, learn about not just the community but a little about themselves and the art and what they're experiencing. >> isn't that cool? this commission is going to be installed june 1st. we have a lot more with this artist zachary oxman. it's in our nbc washington app. just search "oxman". >> that is something to see. >> it is cool. all right, doug, hot, humid out there. but we've got storms in pockets out there this weekend. >> that's what it is pockets. if you're going out around the d.c. metro area, we'll be just fine. if you have plans don't worry you won't need the umbrellas. most of the rain well to the south. you can tell just on the hot and humid side, 85 degrees that heat index into the upper 80s. around 7:00 we'll be around 79, 77 by 9:00 dropping very slowly

through the 70s by around 11:00. so still on the warm side. 79 right now in manassas, 80 in camp springs and 79 over toward annapolis. as we look toward the storms now, notice most of us are on the dry side. but we do have a couple of areas south back to the west down towards the east. we'll continue to watch those. now, one little shower actually popping up into charles county. look at fredericksburg. this is a very strong storm right here. it's moving very slowly. it was right over spotsylvania county over the last hour and it's just slowly drifting up towards fredericksburg. look at all of the lightning associated with this right now. there's also extremely heavy rain. so if you're making your way down i-95 from stafford county in through the fredericksburg area and spotsylvania county, watch out. i do expect to see some localized flooding here especially street flooding. please be careful. a couple other showers through king george county and stafford county as this continues to just drift up towards the north. now, back to the west we are seeing these showers kind of die off through shan do wa county,

frederick county, virginia. that's about it. those will continue to die off. these are also dying off toward the eastern shore if you're heading out 50 across the bay bridge over towards the eastern shore. i think you're going to be okay here. we have had some slowing on 50 as a result of some of that heavier rain earlier. tomorrow, hot a bit humid, isolated storms possible but most of us should stay on the dry side. i'm not really worried about storms tomorrow. high temperature 84 to 91 degrees. tomorrow is going to be the hot day. i think sunday will be hot too. down toward the beaches, that's what you'll want. you'll want the warmth and we'll have some of it 74 today, a nice forecast for this afternoon, 77 on saturday, 80 degrees on sunday. right now the weekend looking very nice. i've even taken out the chance of storms on sunday as a result of that frontal boundary coming through a little bit later. that's why the change in the forecast today. 88 degrees on sunday, a 30% chance of storms. but the front instead of coming through on sunday now it looks like it will come through on monday. 87 degrees with a chance for strong storms on monday and that really changes the forecast.

yesterday it looked like that front and that boundary would shift to our south. that meant much cooler air. but today it looks like the boundary wants to stay to the north so we'll be on the warm side. high temperatures back around 79 on tuesday, 80 degrees on wednesday, under partly to mostly cloudy skies. next week we've got our latest installment of backyard weather. if you want me to come to your backyard just go to my facebook page and let mowe know why we should come to your backyard. looking forward to that. >> now it really is summer. businesses and stores were burned to the ground during the unrest if baltimore and now a month after the destruction some are still struggling to get back on their feet. coming up next we'll tell you what's being done to help. >> reporter: new questions tonight facing a local little league. what a former coach and parent wants to see done to protect kids from becoming victims.

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news4 about the reality tv show star accused of calling in threats to the metro service. a federal grand jury indicted coleman on 11 felony counts, accused of calling in false threats to the metro system and buses, some of which led to evacuations and buses and metro being stopped. he was on the mtv show "catfish" and was outed as a scam music producer. it's a ride he will never forget from an organization he has dedicated thousands of volunteer hours to the martinsburg west virginia, air show gave tony robison the ride of a lifetime today. he was just diagnosed with prostate cancer and was given six months to live. robison flew in a plane known as the f-1 rocket which can reach speeds of 240 miles an hour. it was robison's first time flying. he hopes to start a new treatment program at johns hopkins soon. well, you remember the scene. a cvs burning in downtown baltimore during last month's

riots. today the city's mayor announced she plans to make resources available to help those businesses. but as megan bring elle reports, nonprofits are suffering, too. >> reporter: this was saturday april 25th the first time there was violence and destruction in baltimore. a rally to protest the death of freddie gray got out of hand and protesters clashed with police. >> it was really tough to watch the news and know this may impact our biggest fund-raiser of the year, in addition to just being concerned about the community. >> reporter: this woman is with the maryland aspca. they canceled their march for the animals the next day. >> we are concerned we won't have as many people turn out. we want to make sure this gets us to our goal. we want to raise $400,000 with this event, which means a lot to us. we don't get government funding. we don't get aspca funding. we need the donations to help the animals. so we're short of that $400,000 goal right now. >> reporter: they've rescheduled the festival for sunday may

31st, hoping they can raise the money. the baltimore walk for the national multiple sclerosis society has to make up the loss too. >> the baltimore city walk is our largest walk in terms of the number of participants. we would have had more than 1,000 participate antz. >> reporter: because they canceled their walk, they're down 30% from last year. but that's not the biggest loss. >> it's the largest activity during the year when people with ms and their families can come together and their friends and loved ones and say, we're going to do something about this disease and we're going to stop it. and not being able to have that sort of rallying point that gathering point for people with the ms community, that was what really hurt. >> reporter: instead of scramble scrambling to reschedule this weekend the ns society with have a meet and greet for those who had registered for that april 26th event. they hope that and other events coming up will compel people to donate for nonprofits that rely on the generosity of others, it's at least a step in the right direction. megan bring elle, wbal.

right now at 6, shot inside an suv during rush hour on i-295. tonight with the bullet still lodged in his neck he reveals what he did that likely saved his life. the former speaker of the house is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct. what they say about denny hastert's past and possible multimillion-dollar cover-up. and they broke down the door and hauled off suspected drug dealers in handcuffs. only news4 was there for the takedown. and tonight the new drugs that could impabl people who live nearby. we begin with that deadly shooting on 295. an suv rid eld with bullets leaving one man dead and another wounded. >> now we're getting our first look at that survivor as he recounts those moments that played out during the morning rush hour. news4's meagan fitzgerald joins us live. meagan? >> reporter: well, the family tells us that they believe the men were targeted because they weren't driving fast enough for the suspects. now, we decided not to reveal the identity of the only surviving victim or to show his

picture and to only use his son's first name for the family's safety. for 23-year-old miguel, the last 24 hours have been surreal. he can't understand why anyone would want to harm his father and his 50-year-old uncle pedro alvarado. miguel says they didn't have enemies and worked hard as maintain men maintenance men every day. miguel's father spoke to him from his hospital bed with a bullet lodged in the side of his face. it's unable to be removed because it's too close to a saliva gland. his uncle pedro was killed on the scene. miguel says his father told him he and alvarado noticed a black pickup truck trailing behind them for several minutes after they crossed the woodrow wilson bridge thursday morning. the vehicle passed them and then returned, spraying their suv with