area. >> storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson is live with what could be a messy commute. >> the entire area under a flash flood watch. you look outside. it looks for sure like something's headed our way and if you've been outside you know you have a darkening sky. the warm humid breeze is blowing. go straight to storm team 4 radar. all the moisture from out of the south. you have a weather front over us and low pressure contributing together to produce the scattered moderate to heavy rains and thunderstorms across the area and one good cell right now just about ready to cross over 495. look at this. there's the red. making the way north and northeastward toward woodmore and aspen hill in the next couple of minutes. driving northward through areas of connecticut avenue and another 429 and 99. this cell around areas of maryland city north-northeast

to savage and producing heavy rain for the next couple of minutes. scattered, heavy rains and thunderstorms auld also be bringing light tong the area maybe even some small hail and the main threat is heavy rain. the flash flood watch continues through the night. one to two inches to occur. we'll have more what to expect step by step, hour by hour for the overnight period as the data comes in. three caskets covered in thick white flowers. mourners with faces overcome with grief. >> some people said that the funeral looked like a hollywood movie but the emotion there was very real. megan fitzgerald lives us live outside the mansion where four people were murdered. so many people at the funeral. >> reporter: i tell you, it was family friends. it was teachers and students and parents and people that didn't

know the savopolous family a. hour-long service and one that most people say they'll never forget. there's no way to describe the emotions of those who attended the service for savvas amy and 10-year-old filip savopoulos. they arrived to pay respects. but images among the hardest to see, students of aint albans carrying their teammate inside behind his mother and father. church officials say following the casket is parents, filip and gayle along with two daughters, katerina and abigail. as the hour-long service concluded, tears and grief were visible on nearly every face. >> absolutely crushing.

absolutely crushing. i still can't believe it. >> reporter: the question that will undoubtedly stay on the minds of so many is why anyone would take the lives of a family who selfishly committed and devoted their lives to this community. >> the commitment to philanthropy their outpouring of love to help people and i think that was very moving. >> reporter: now, we're told after the service, there was a reception that was held in the atrium of the church for the family. of course still a lot of questions surrounding this investigation and investigators still at the house behind me going inside outside, collecting evidence hoping to get more answers. but coming up at 5:00 we spoke with some folk who is are inside the service. they share intimate details about the sermon that was held for the family. reporting in northwest, meagan fitzgerald news 4. >> thank you. a congressional intern placed on temporary leave after trying to carry a gun into a

house office bidding. josh wheeler had an unloaded 9-millimeter. he was arrested and he is an intern for lin jenkins of iowa and the third week on the job. we are waiting to find out if the washington monument will reopen tomorrow. here's a live picture. it was closed again today because of continued elevator issues. it lost power last night forcing one person to walk down the stairs along with park rangers. electricians and technicians spent the day trying to figure out what's causing the elevator trouble. it was closed far while on thursday and friday as well. as we approach the 2016 presidential election we may need another rain for all those hats. today, south carolina senator lindsey graham announced his candidacy. he was in the air force and air force reserve and promised a strong national defense. he says president obama has made us less safe and promised to

reform some of the social programs. graham is the ninth republican to announce a presidential run. are we as safe today as we were yesterday? that's the question after the nsa shut down the controversial collection of phone data at midnight. the law authorizing the bulk collection of data expired and the program is on hold but probably not for long. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with more on the story. steve? >> reporter: thanks. this is what whistle-blower edward snowden said he hoped for. a debate privacy versus protection many here on the hill say or at least fear we lost last night. what phones are calling what other phones is not known today by the government. for the first time since 9/11 and the white house is worried. >> the senate's failure to act introduces unnecessary risk. >> the senate will come to congress. >> reporter: congress cannot restart any program until midweek. the new plan would require call

data billions of digits, not to be stored by the nsa. our private carriers would keep it but for how long? >> there's no requirement to hold the data for any particular period of time. and my concern is they're going to compete with each other to say who can hold it the shortest. >> reporter: why? customers may demand privacy. delaying a senate vote presidential candidate paul encouraged that. >> they want you to fear and give up your liberty. >> reporter: by they paul means the irritated colleagues. >> it is hard for me to believe we invaded privacy and done nothing but grab a telephone number that we have no earthly idea who belongit belongs to. >> reporter: they did not up the boston marathon bombers. but the phone data collection revealed by snowden seemed sure to be put back in place in some

form. plus a new program, focused on self radicalized home grown lone wolf domestic terrorists the government could listen to what they say on their phones. i'm steve handelsman news 4. >> all right. thanks steve. an american woman killed by a lion, what the victim didn't do and how it could have saved her life. the new way expectant mothers keep track of their fetuses and stay in touch with their doctors. storm team 4 radar is tarting the light up out there. we'll have more on the possible flooding this afternoon.

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right now, this is the number one trend on twitter. caitlyn jenner gracing the cover of "vanity fair." she used to be known as bruce jenner. we'll have more on the photo and the reaction in the next half hour. that story bumped down this other one. kim kardashian is pregnant again. she spilled the beans during last night's episode of "keeping up with the kardashians." people have been tweeting, they should use the name south west. their first child north turns 2

in a few weeks. imagine being able to monitor your unborn baby's with a smartphone. a doctor developed a monitor and the device for a baby than ultrasound and available by the end of 2015 and it will cost about $250. western diet be putting your health at risk? the link researchers are making to a killer disease and what you should be eating instead. and they say one man's trash is another man's treasure. we'll show you why one woman's

vj showed us what was come on in on the radar and we heard them on the umbrella of meagan.

that hazy shot shows us that the rain is well it is here now. new details are starting to emerge about a tourist killed by a lion during a safari tour in south africa. the victim is a 22-year-old american woman. she and the driver were attacked earlier today at the lion park near johannesburg. there's claims that windows were open. something at the park say is prohibited. the driver will survive. lion park is a popular destination for tourists who can drive in their own vehicles through large enclosures where lions freely roam. singer iglesias is having reconstructive surgery on his hand. he was doing a concert in mexico and sliced his fingers on the drone. the manager said it sometimes gets audience angles.

he performed for another 30 minutes. bloody hand and all. fans posted photos and videos and he flew to los angeles to have that surgery. >> quite the showman. carry on. a recycling firm in california looking far widow who thought she was dropping off trash but gave away a potential goldmine. >> yeah. she cleenled out the house and left a few boxes of her husband's stuff and inside one of them was a vintage apple 1 computer. nbc's ian cole reports, they only made a couple hundred of them. it's worth a fortune. >> reporter: it was early april at clean bay area and an electronic recycling company when an older woman. >> she drop off a couple boxes like that. >> reporter: it was unwanted junk she thought. >> brought it here. put it on. >> reporter: she dropped off some of her late husband's computer parts. she didn't want a tax receipt or leave contact information. company vice president victor didn't know what they had until

weeks later when they dug through those boxes. >> we were really couldn't believe our eyes. we thought it's fake. it was real. >> reporter: and what they found inside that box was an apple 1 computer. similar to this one as a computer history museum. maybe a couple hundred of them in the world. and they're extremely valuable. >> the first computer that steve jobs and steve wozniak creates in the garage. >> that lady i ask her, do you want anything? >> reporter: it's company policy for 50% back to the original owner. common for computer parts or microchips. but for this rare item they fetched $200,000 in a private auction. >> not every day somebody brings you $100,000. >> reporter: they know what she looks like and don't know her name. now they want to find this mystery woman to thank her and make her rich. >> this lady please come to our

warehouse again and we'll give you check $100,000. please. >> it was mine. >> you wish man! today mark it is start of atlantic hurricane season. do you know what to do if a big storm hits? the national hurricane center is making a push for everyone to know their evacuation route. it's also important for you and your family to have a plan in place. there are expected to be six to 11 named storms in the atlantic this year. a quieter year than most and even a quiet season can have a deadly impact. about half of the named storms expected to pack winds of 75 miles per hour or more. >> it only takes one bad hurricane to make a bad hurricane season. >> you can track when any storm is coming to your neighborhood on the weather page of our nbc washington app. right now, take a look outside or out your window and see it coming down. >> pouring.

we have torrential rain out there now and again we are just getting started for the evening hours and the overnight. we are expecting a lot more. pouring at the white house right now. this is the scene. folks, if you don't have anywhere that you -- you know put off your errands if you can wait until tomorrow because we're expecting more of the pockets of very moderate to heavy rains coming through that really just leads to ponding on area roads. and the potential for some flooding. especially as we get late into the night. take a look at storm team 4 radar right now. zoom in and show you a pocket we are tracking right now right over 495. headed right up areas of 95. as well as route 1. there you can see it. all the lightning that's coming with it d.c. to bethesda right now. right up i-95 we have another area here just south around areas of st. mary's county and they have had some of this lightning and a tremendous amount of it. but luckily, this is headed out

over the open waters and then more. it's sliding north-northeastward back into the area around culpepper, i-95. eventually headed up toward quantity coe and possibly allen's fresh and culminating in the evening rush. how much to xekd? between one and two inches. flash flood warnings issued just to the west south of petersburg. one to two inches. flash flood wash. doesn't end until 6:00 a.m. early tomorrow morning. here's the future weather. the pockets of moderate to heavy ranls s rains and thunderstorms continue to move through. 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 just south and east of our area with a look at how much to get and what our main threat is let's go to doug kammerer. >> we are not talking about the main threat severe storms with wind and not expecting a whole bunch in the way of what we're seeing butlet's take a look. we have a heavy rain and the

flash flood watch in effect through 6:00 tomorrow morning. next couple of hours, things are ramping up. if you're dealing with the sunshine, that just gives the atmosphere more fuel. no real tornado threat. we are not worried about that at all. high winds? possibly with the stronger storms. the big deal is the very heavy rain. not a hail producer. that's the case moving through the overnight hours tonight. rainfall in the region in the purples here. that's an inch and a half plus so you can see how much of our area covered in purple or red. red is well over two and a half inches of rain so that's something we'll continue to watch once again. any of these storms could quickly dump a half an inch to an inch in 15 to 20 minutes and talking extremely heavy rain the case in the rest of the night. one thing for sure we say this all the time. if you're driving down and see a flooded roadway, turn around don't drown. we don't want to see anymore water rescues we have seen so

much of lately. >> absolutely. one thing today is the temperatures drop a little bit and come right back up. 91-degree day for us. 80 degrees with widespread moderate rains by 9:00. for early tomorrow morning. the heaviest gone. just showers, cooler conditions. 66 to 72. we'll have a look at the 7-day forecast and more on the impacts of what you can expect with this heavy rain system that will be coming through over the next couple of hours in a couple of minutes. guys? >> thank you. we'll hear more about the storms. the harvard school of public health studied men with prostate cancer with a western diet lots of red meat dairy, refined grains and two and a half times more likely to die of prostate cancer than those eating a diet high in fruits vegetables whole grains and fish. this is something a lot of men face, 1 in 7 will develop prostate cancer. tomorrow morning, our own

news 4 anchor will appear in the parenting segment in the 8:30 half hour. yang working for you with tips to keep your kids occupied and happy in the car. don't miss her tomorrow. and also read more parenting tips from eun. a new benefit for women who choose to breastfeed. the link between that form of nursing and the prevention of a deadly childhood disease. locked out of love? a timeless couple's tradition on a paris bridge is coming an end. the special connection i've got to the story.

well there's no longer a lock on love this afternoon in the international city of love. we're talking about paris. >> that's right. we see why a lover's tradition is coming to an end. >> reporter: in the city of

love lamore is all around you and where better to show your affection than a lock on this bridge. >> symbolizes i guess our love. >> you can never -- >> reporter: never say never. at least in paris where french officials are officially saying adieu to the love locks. >> what? >> what? >> reporter: it's true. turns out the little tokens of affection for years latched and left by lovers as a permanent symbol of everlasting bond aren't so permanent after all. >> we want to say that for many many ways to say i love you. we vow to putting a love lock. >> reporter: what was small declarations of love many say has morphed into a montrossty w. initials and hearts locks on top of locks, on top of locks. a million of them. so many the city covered them up

with plywood for fear they'd never stop multiplying and with the 45 tons of extra weight, that fear wasn't just aesthetic. >> the danger is heavy. >> romantic. >> reporter: they'll come down grate by grate. love locks today. lost tomorrow. >> there are a number of other bridges you can put up your love locks. unfortunately, those locks will be coming down soon enough as well. back to you. >> oh man. thanks. a few years ago my wife and i were in paris for a wedding. my daughter was a year old and wrote a little note to her and put the lock on the bridge hoping one day 20 years from now she would -- >> find it? >> come back and see the lock we left when she was a baby and not to be i guess. >> not to be unfortunately. well tracy morgan talks to the "today" show in his first

interview since nearly dying in a crash. his promise to his fans. if you post a death threat on facebook is that protected speech? today the supreme court weighed in. there are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you don't now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. starting at $74.99 per month with no annual contract. get custom tv, including internet and phone. price guaranteed for two years. or from now until june 8th get a $400 visa prepaid card when you sign a two-year agreement. go to getfios.com. cable just gives you channels. fios gives you choice. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v

we are getting new details in the murder of a couple in rockville. what the suspect told police when they confronted him. tens of thousands of you travel over it every day and now we are getting a clearer picture of the arlington memorial bridge. meet caitlyn formerly known as bruce jenner. this picture has social media on fire. it's a weather alert day. severe weather is possible this evening and into the night. >> we have been seeing the rain coming down. there's a ton of activity right now out on the radar. let's get straight to storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. what can we expect? >> we have rains in the area

impacting roads and here as we go into the evening hours and the overnight and seeing this radar start to fill in more and more. check out the big storm system that's just about ready to leave northeast d.c. paralleling 29 right now. look at this. tremendous amount of lightning with it. and rainfall rates close to an inch and a half an hour. it is north-northeast bound headed to savage and in dorsey the next couple of minutes. heavy rain and lightning with this particular cell. overnight we will have the heaviest rains out of the storm system. by the time of tuesday and early morning tuesday, just rain and some showers coming through. it's not nearly as heavy. talk about the temperatures. it's going to be much cooler than that 90 starting tomorrow morning. and then 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. pedestrian forecast 75 with showers. talking about the pattern change for us. and what we can anticipate for the remainder of the work week.

guys? >> thanks. paper thin steel. one of the unsettling discoveries found inside the arlington memorial bridge. it's a commuter route that's used by thousands of people to get in and out of d.c. every day and transportation reporter adam tuss is getting a rare look inside the span and the repairs now under way. >> reporter: 68,000 vehicles a day use the memorial bridge. about 150 tour buses. some of them are going to have to find a different way. take a look at the bridge. off in the distance the arrow boards out. the center of the bridge that's where all the problems are. we took a tour underneath the bridge and saw some eye opening stuff. corroded steel pretty much everywhere. and some sections where the steel is supposed to be let's say, three quarters of an inch thick, it is now paper thin. the national park service very concerned about it. the department of transportation local congressional leaders,

they all spoke out about it. >> the federal highway aviation engineers found that steel beams that support the bridge are rapidly corroding. they're not as strong as they should be and they're not meeting our load-bearing standards. >> reporter: coming up much more at 5:00. more from underneath the bridge and what the plan is to make up that that. adam tuss, news 4. a man accused of killing a couple is held right now without bond. he confessed when he was arrested on a cruise in alaska according to court documents. we'll have other details that reveal more about this double murder coming up at the top of the hour. the facebook rantds should not land you in prison according to today's ruling from the supreme court. the justices ordered a new trial

for a man posting threatening messages to his ex. brian mooar looks at how the justices came to the ruling. >> reporter: the supreme court is throwing out the conviction of a pennsylvania man posting threatening messages on social media saying he should be judged by the intent and the perception of his words. anthony was sentenced to 44 months for graphic facebook posts aimed at his estranged wife and a fbi agent and suggested he might be considering a school shooting. when he was arrested back in 2010 he said the statements weren't threats but rap lyrics emulating eminem. a jury asked to consider whether a reasonable person consider them threats. the chief justice roberts writing for the majority ruled perception was the wrong standard. the writer's intent he said is the fine line between criminal and free speech under the first amendment. he'll get another chance to plead his case in court, the

supreme court declined to use this case to sharpen the lines of free speech on social media. brian mooar, nbc news, washington. the book and the movie created quite a stir. now the author of "50 shades of grey" is getting ready for a second act. for many of you, it takes a lot more than exercise to shed those extra pounds. find out what more and more americans are turning to now.

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because it's an ability to learn and hurts their health and well being. >> the district tops the nation with the most students that don't lose out on meals over the summer and followed by new mexico and new york. maryland is ninth, but west virginia near the bottom ranking number 41. it's picture this has a lot of folks talking today. new reaction tonight about caitlyn. just hard for me to see that he's gone. >> first time since the near deadly crash, tracy morgan is talking about the accident and his future.

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her beauty is one of the most talked about stories today on twitter. "vanity fair" released the first

pictures of the woman formerly known as bruce jenner. her name now is caitlyn and people on social media seem to be amused she chose to spell wit a "c" rather than a "k" like her daughters and step daughters. she chronicled the transformation of bruce in an article saying she now feels freer because she doesn't have to quote, tell anymore lies. >> right now, my goal is just to heal and get better because i'm not 100% yet. >> tracy morgan got pretty emotional in the first interview since the crash that nearly killed him. bones heal but he's still feeling the loss of his friend. >> a year after the deadly accident the comedian opened up today to matt lawyer on the "today" show. >> i can't believe i'm here. i can't believe i'm -- >> reporter: he says he doesn't remember the accident. a collision between his bus and a walmart tractor trailer going

20 miles over the speed limit. it left morgan with brain trauma and broken bones and killed his friend james mcnair. >> bones heal. but the loss of my friend will never heal. >> reporter: he learned of his friend's death after a two-week-long coma and watched coverage of the accident and the friend's funeral on youtube. >> my friend. i had to know. i had to pay my respects. and that was my way. >> reporter: the former "30 rock" star says he's especially thankful he asked his daughter and fiancee not to travel. >> she was 2 months old. she wouldn't have made it. megan wouldn't have made it. and i don't know man. that's really thing the thing that tears me up. >> reporter: last week morgan reached a settlement with walmart on behalf of himself and other victims. meanwhile, his physical and emotional recovery continues. with an eye towards returning to

comedy. >> i'm not 100% yet. i'm not. when i'm there, you'll know it. i'll get back to making you laugh. i promise you. >> reporter: a promise the fans look forward to him fulfilling. nbc news. >> hopefully he continues to get a lot better. the work towards a better body for a lot of americans doesn't end with weight loss. people getting plastic surgery is up to 10%. the american society of plastic surgeons says more people are opting for lifts, nips and tucks. the procedures are growing at the fastest rate in four years and most of the patients are trying to get rid of sagging or excess skin. it's another important benefit for a breastfeeding. may provide protection against childhood leukemia. moms that breast fed their babies for six months or longer reduced the risk by 19% of the disease compared to babies who were not breast fed at all.

babies breast fed less than six months at 11% lower risk. experts say there is an anti-inflammatory mechanism that may provide a defense of leukemia. good news for fans of "50 shades of grey" books. the author announced she has a fourth book coming out. the newest book is titled "grey" and written from the perspective of the main character, christian grey with an unconventional view of sex and the new book is due june 18th. >> a lot of folks waiting for that. veronica we hear there's a new thunderstorm warning. >> shenandoah and warren counties and big storms to the north and east and up i-95 and more coming in from the west. look at radar. you can see exactly when i'm talking about north and east. right around northeastern area of the beltway and then shenandoah and warren county right at i-81 south and west now of winchester virginia. so we've got storms all over the

place right now. these potentially with a lot of lightning right now and the heavy rain up areas of i-95 headed east-northeast bound and impacting areas like seabrook area walker mill randolph village. heavy rain and again lightning. of course with that heavy rain ponding on area roads and more severe thunderstorms up the north. look at this. avenuington and a tornado warning now for southwestern new jersey so the areas seeing some high winds, too, coming with some of these and the biggest impact will be that of flooding. impacts tomorrow low. showers likely bring the umbrellas and the warm side and such a hot may with more on why, let's go to doug kammerer. >> today, veronica the eighth day so far of temperatures 90 degrees or above. we saw a lot of those in the month of may continuing on through the month of june. things will change a bit. but take a look at how may ended up. the warmest may we have ever seen here in the d.c. area.

seven days, 90 degrees or higher. warmer than average days and nights. average temperatures of 70. many of the nights. average highs and temperature days and nights 73.2. the previous record 73. why? the same reason of the rain toward the south and seeing the rain today. that big ridge of high pressure sending the jet stream way up to the north. high pressure just off the coast for southerly push and high temperatures today upwards of 91 degrees and the moisture too. all of this heat and the moisture had to come sometime and that moisture today is going to help to provide us with some of that flash flooding. >> good news is by early tomorrow morning, not as much rain and there will be wet roads and puddles and moderate impact. the kids waithing and then the green light, a few showers and keep that umbrella handy in the day tomorrow. temperatures expected to get up to only 67 to 70 degrees in d.c. maybe low 70s down south. as we heard, we are moving into

a much cooler pattern here for this week. but unfortunately, it's rain showers in the forecast each and every day. widely scattered. 68 the high on wednesday. 75 thursday. mid-70s on friday and we continue in the 70s through the weekend with a chance of more rain showers. again, here's the very latest. shenandoah warren county severe thunderstorm warning. we could see more. we'll have it for you at 5:00. it will now cost you more to visit great falls park in mclain. a pedestrian 3-day pass is $5. the fee for vehicles is $10 and the annual pass goes up to $30. police have made a pretty quick arrest of a shooting at a park in maryland. a day after, police say the shooter has confessed. prince georges county bureau chief has new information of what happened moments before someone started shooting. >> reporter: a suspect is in custody after a quadruple

shooting in prince georges county happening in springdale an now police say it was the result of a shootout between two men. this is what we know so far. police say 21-year-old jeremy williams was in an argument with 21-year-old alonzo lloyd when the two took out guns and exchanged gun fire striking two other people one man was grazed. another person was shot and still in the hospital. police took lloyd into custody. charging him with the shooting. williams was shot and killed in this exchange of gun fire. prince georges county police say they believe they have caught the only person involved in this incident. there were a lot of people who could have been impacted by the shooting. it happened while the park was full of families. coming up at 5:00 more on that. i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. spent nearly two years in an egyptian prison. >> but he is back in the states this afternoon and enjoying a hero's welcome. i'm darcy spencer in

rockville. a man accused of killing his neighbors and then taking off on an alaskan cruise made his first court appearance here in montgomery county. what prosecutors say happened right before the murder.

it was an emotional homecoming for a man after nearly two years in jail in egypt. 27-year-old mohammed soltan arrived to cheers and family's waiting arms. after nearly two years in jail and 16 months on a hunger strike to protest conditions in jail finally, freedom. soltan working as a tranceslator for u.s. and international news agencies and arrested in august of 2013 charged with supported protests that usaed the president. he was later sentenced to life.

the release on saturday was unexpected but followed months of lobbying by family and negotiations between the u.s. and egypt. >> this is a very happy moment for all of us. american muslims and we believe in freedom. >> reporter: to win his freedom, he had to renounce the duel egyptian citizenship. at dulles saturday he kissed the ground frail but thankful to be back on u.s. soil. >> welcome home! >> officials with the state department say they are glad soltan is released and glad he is now back with his family in virginia. now at 5:00 we are watching the radar and watching the conditions live across our entire region. heavy rain and flooding could be a problem in a few hours. let's go to the storm team 4 weather cent ir' we saw heavy

rains right outside the studio and the thunder booming out there. let's show them video of northwest washington. what rolled through here just a little while ago, this is right outside our studios. doug this is just the beginning. how long are we in for with this? >> we have a flood watch in effect until 6:00 tomorrow morning. some of that rain coming down upwards of an inch to an inch and a half per hour. and that's what we're going to continue to see. some areas upwards of two inches per hour. you can see a half an inch of rain. very very quickly. look at the storms right now. down to the south, the one that came through d.c. moving in towards prince georges and then a lot of storminess in the west. flash flood warning for west virginia. a severe thunderstorm warning and 5:15 hour along i-81. more storms developing on the clark county line and then off towards the east. look at these right now. a little bit of a transfer. look at the transfer of energy.

watch what happens. and then bam. really hitting portions of northern anne arundel county and seeing the worst of this action. bowie seeing some of that very heavy rain and continuing to see that. i mentioned that flash flood watch in effect for everybody in the green here until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. any areas of red, those are already flash flood warnings and i expect to see more in our area this evening. so what can we expect for the rest of the evening in torrential downpours. one to two inches per hour. watch out for high water and turning the headlights on. seeing a flooded road turn around. we don't want to see anymore of the water rescues and houses hit by lightning this afternoon, as well. much more about that coming up in the 5:00 hour. guys? >> all right. there are no words. that is the sentiment we have heard a lot since the news about the mansion murders in northwest d.c. and today the funeral for a mother a father and a young son killed along with their housekeeper. as hundreds packed the greek

orthodox cathedral, tried to make sense of it a speaker said out of this tragedy came an explosion of love and sympathy. news 4's meagna fitzgerald has more on the emotional service. >> reporter: it's a day no one could have ever expected. >> wonderful kid. >> beautiful family. >> reporter: a day where three family members of this beautiful family were remembered in a funeral service filled with hundreds of people. before the service started at st. sophia greek orthodox cathedral, the caskets carried inside. church officials say phillip carried by some of his classmates. this is the church where savvas savopoulos and amy got married and church leaders say phillip was baptized almost ten years ago to the day. >> wonderful tribute to the family. >> reporter: the family selfless contributions to the community and love for others was shared during the service. a friend of the family even