cell phone video captured the dramatic images as a truck got swallowed up by a sinkhole just a few hours ago in bethesda. go to darcy spencer, she is at the scene. darcy, are they getting it cleaned up yet? >> reporter: well, they certainly are. big update since you talked to you about a half hour ago. both of the vehicles that were swallowed up by this sinkhole have been removed, but take a a monster. just over the last few minutes we have had pieces of concrete fall into the hole. this is still an unstable situation here on sleaford road in bethesda. you are looking at the truck right now that the driver was driving down sleaford road here when this road opened up and the truck went right down into this hole. the good news is that no one was hurt. so, if we can go to some video a little bit earlier when the truck was actually in the sinkhole. very dramatic situation. some video was sent into us a little bit earlier by a viewer early on that that was caused by a water main break, an

eight-inch water main. and so the street here was flooded. there's a lot of mud and rocks and debris here now. so basically, there was a flood here on this street and then this sinkhole opened up. we also have some cell phone video that was sent in to the station a little while ago, we can show just how dramatic it was, again, as the situation was unfolding and as the street was being flooded and this big hole opened up here. there was a pickup truck as well as an suv that were both stuck in the sinkhole. a tow truck came through here just a little while ago, got both of the vehicles out. the good news is no one was hurt. back to you. >> that is good news. darcy spencer, thank you. now to our weather. high heat and humidity all across the region. it's not letting up yet. >> yeah we have got team coverage. let's start with doug in the storm center. hey, doug. >> talking about this heat, continue to see it the next few days. today, most likely the hottest and the most humid. out there today saw a high temperature, 92, 93 degrees.

heat index, 101 earlier. take a look at the numbers, 92 washington, 93, fredericksburg. 88, gaithersburg. 82 in leesburg. had rain move through and even stronger showers. look at the line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the strongest of which right now in through fairfax county, through the manassas area, prince william county through the city of fairfax within the next 10 to 15 minutes much not severe but these are fairly strong very heavy downpours along 66 and 29. then follow right on down toward manassas. so, manassas really getting hit very hard. if you are in southern porings of fairfax county around fairfax, burke, woodbridge mount vernon this is coming your way. continue to keep you posted on these storms and let you know when the heat may break in my forecast. >> thank you, doug. the heat wave is taking a toll on a lot of us but especially hard on those whose job requires them to be outside in it. news4's mark segraves continues our team coverage from the national mall. hi, mark.

>> reporter: hey, doreen. some of us have to be out here working in this heat, unlike the weather people back there in the cool studio. we take a look at the mall. a much different picture than last hour. clouds are rolling in. it is a little breezy. there are more people out here enjoying it. but earlier to the heat was at its highest and the is up was just beating down believe it or not there were people out here exercising and, yes, working. you're not out exercising, are you. >> i am. >> did you know it's 95 degrees? >> it is a time issue with me. trying to squeeze it in. >> reporter: for kids, today's heat was a great excuse to play in the water. or to get some ice cream. are you loving our weather? >> no. but i'm about to love this ice cream. >> reporter: but for some people today was just another day at the office. >> yeah the heat's kind of killing us. like 88% humidity, it is 94. it is rough. >> you are out here? where is your water bottle?

>> right here. >> so you are hydrating? >> yep. absolutely. >> reporter: most jurisdictions in our area declared heat emergencies and opened cooling centers. mayor muriel bowser urged residents to look out for the elderly. >> make available cooling centers. we ask residents to help us identify people who might be in need in a home that we don't know about who need attention. and then we would get people out to assist them as well. >> reporter: and remember our pedicab driver? he says there is an upside to today's heat. i got to imagine the tips are huge today, right? >> yeah. definitely. people trying to get out of the heat. big tippers? >> especially the top, getting them out of the sun. >> reporter: so, big tips for that pedicab driver today. now, i can tell you some good news. i talked to a spokesperson for d.c. fire and ems who tells me they had very few calls heat related today, actually only five and none of those were serious. doreen, back to you. >> mark segraves, thank you. you should know that several

cooling centers are opening up across our region. for more information on those, head to the nbc washington app. someone shot and killed a young mother inside her up apartment in maryland and tonight, we are learning more about why they targeted kaya wilson. even as the man who was charged in her death walks free. news4's meagan fitzgerald is live in upper marlboro with details. >> reporter: it was an emotional night for the family of kaya williams as they walked out of this courthouse last night. they were hoping justice would have been served for their daughter, who was gunned down in her apartment. instead the only person charged with her murder is a free man. a day before kaya wilson was gunned down in her oxon hill apartment, a murder took place just outside her building. >> a large fight broke out in the colonial village apartments in oxon hill a man by the name of jack carry butler was stabbed.

>> reporter: johner >> reporter: john erzen with the state attorney's office says the suspect thought that was her boyfriend, levy. he went inside looking for levy, he wasn't home, so wilson was killed instead. her four young children were in the same room. the oldest, a 7-year-old girl called 911. # >> reporter: levy had nothing to do with the stabbing death of bell's friend. court documents say a witness gave a detailed description of the man who really stabbed and killed jack carry butler. his name is michael neely and he lived in the same building as levi, kaya wilson and her four little children. nealy was sentenced to 30 years in prison but he is appealing that sentence. we understand that the children of wilson are still struggling emotionally from being in the room with their mother while she was being murdered. reporting in prince george's,

meagan fitzgerald, news4. d.c. police looking for a drive here caused a deadly crash on the suit land park watch a volvo slammed into another car near berry farm after midnight. several people in that car were trapped. one person died. the man driving the volvo took off running and so did his passenger. police did catch the passenger and arrested him for having a loaded gun. developing now in upstate new york, a prison worker accused of helping two men break free has just been arrested. all this comes on day seven of the search for those escaped inmates. investigators say there they are zeroing in on a wooded area about three miles from that prison. nbc's jay gray is in dannemora, new york with the latest. jay? >> reporter: hey, doreen. let's start with that prison employee a civilian, her name joyce mitch, she worked in the tailor shop with the two escapees she has been arrested, she has been charged with facilitation, helping in the escape and providing contraband. there are reports that

contraband included hacksaw blades and drill bits. we expect to learn a lot more about this arrest this evening. there's a press conference scheduled for 6:30. we should hear from authorities. we do know that they are both felonies. she could face up to seven years in state prison. that as the manhunt intensifies here. hundreds of additional officers on the ground with those that have already been here more than 800 in all. many of them focused in an area three miles from this prison right now an area where they have been able to find bedding. they found food wrappers. they found footprints. they haven't found the two escapees at this point. seven days on the run. they continue to focus there helicopters there, dogs, all of those heavily armed officers on the ground a search they will continue through the night. that is the latest live here in dannemora, new york, i'm jay gray. doreen, chris, back to you. >> thanks, jay. this summer, a catholic priest will be sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman on

an airplane it happened on aly if the from if i recall to los angeles. as the i-team's scott macfarlane reports, this is the series of men convicted of sexually touching other passengers on flights. >> reporter: there have been several cases of sexual assaults aboard flights into dulles and reagan national in recent months including one in just the past few months much the fbi's washington field office told us about today that the man convicted in the case out of california is a catholic priest. he touched a fellow passenger's buttocks, breast and group. the passenger was asleep went assault began. the woman woke up to find the priest's hands on her body. in 2013, the fbi investigated a man for molesting a 15-year-old girl on a play enroute to dulles and feds say these cases are a big challenge because the victims and witnesses are often strangers strangers who quickly leave the scene. >> if we don't find our witnesses or our victims or our suspects now an hour from now, they will literally be at the

four corners of the earth. >> the i-team's investigation into these air assaults found another problem, no federal agency is keeping count keeping track of how often this happens. chris? >> all right thanks, scott. to see scott's full report and the i-team's full investigation into these airborne assaults go to nbcwashington.com and search investigations. next at 6:00, they came to this country for a better life. but a devastating fire left a family of 13 homeless. >> in the middle of their tragedy, there's joy. how the actions of one military family are helping to keep them together tonight. a student attending a d.c. nightclub dies from a drug overdose. we will have reaction from d.c.'s department of health director. repairing the streets picking up trash, doing the heimlich man knewer? it is all in a day's work for vienna town employees.

a new mill yating deteat today for president obama. he traveled to the capitol today trying to rescue the pacific trade deal, but it didn't work. the bill did not pass a vote in the house this afternoon. >> the president couldn't even drum up enough support in his own party. meet the press moderator, chuck todd, is here and what does this say about the president's relationship with house democrats? >> look you can't help but wonder with the seeds of this planted seven years ago, that his courting of congress, you know, somebody tweeted me looked like he was cramming for finals. suddenly going to the game last night because hey buddy, where have you been the last six years when it comes to that stuff. but this was not about personal relationships. this was about sort of the center of gravity in the democratic party has shifted dramatically left. part of it, in congress, has to do with anybody who was a centrist democrat, they are out. they lost in 2014. so, you have got a whole bump of democrats who believe that labor will throw -- get them out of

office, will primary them and president obama's not on the ballot in 2016. the house democrats are. so look this is about what happens a lot in congress. it is about themselves. their own survival. >> talking about the democrats. hillary clinton is getting ready for her first big campaign. >> it is, sort of the announcement, i guess. >> but her numbers are headed south. >> well, it is -- really is among independents the most downward slide. among democrats, it's been holding steady but, look, this is -- she has an opportunity here. she needed to make this opportunity, one she didn't do eight years ago to answer the question, why does she want to be president? and what's interesting is what they are really pushing is that their whole goal is to -- you hear this a lot with candidates that are well known reintroduce her. doesn't know the real hillary clinton. in this case, it is hillary rodham. >> rebranding. >> jeb bush doing the same thing on monday. you hear this from the same thing from them, their people. you know, all they know, just know his last name don't know

who jeb is don't know florida's jeb. and i think that's the same thing here. this is hillary rodham, the daughter of dorothy rod large the story they want to tell tomorrow and hope that that starts at least to do a better job of making people feel as if, okay she has a vision of why she wants to be president. more to come on sunday morning with chuck todd, "meet the press" sunday morning at 10:30 here on nbc4. now to some breaking news on that government data breach. let's go to consumer reporter erika gonzalez, at the live desk. >> the office of personnel management just confirmed to news4 background investigations for security clearances and other background checks may have also been breached. this information, hearing this from nbc news, involves or part of what we know is a standard form 86. it includes very personal information on people being hired. officials say they do not know at this time how many people were affected but this could mean additional people beyond the originally estimated 4.2

million. as soon as we have more information on this of course, we will let you know right here on news4 and across our social platforms as well. back to you. >> seems like it is often the case that the security breaches start. >> become a lot bigger. >> then they get bigger. we got some storms out there that you are keeping an eye on doug. >> those storms coming through the heart of fairfax county, in through portions of prince william county as well. talked about the chance of storms yesterday, said there would be one or two. there's one and then there's two. that is it and this's going to be the case move on through the rest of the night too right now about the heat and humidity and of course those few storms just down to the south of the washington, d.c. area. they are coming through the beltway though. you can see the line of storms that developed a little bit earlier, the line kind of falling apart, a few storms still going on right now we will zoom in on these storms, right through central fairfax county over the city of fairfax, those continue to move off to the east and will be approaching the beltway here in the next five minutes actually, on the beltway. you can see all the lightning associated with these, too.

shower activity the storm here earlier, really dying off it makes its way toward bethesda toward the great falls area shower activity here, but the rain and the heavy storms just down to the south. now, on this trend, about 25, 30 miles a hour, around franconia, 6:26. 6:29, alexandria and clinton maryland at 7:00, in through prince george's county. rather 495 here the belt wake american legion seeing the rain going to be dealing with some wet roads there over the next hour or so, right on through mcclain, down through fairfax. look at the city of fairfax very heavy rain right now, right along 50, right along 236, right along 495, continuing to see that rain. look at burke. here's burke center park wake braddock road, heavy rain, a lot of lightning here in this area. farther down to the south, manassas was getting hammered the last half hour or so starting to move out of manassas off toward the east, right along the river, so going to continue watch this moving off toward

the east about that 20 to 25-mile trend. you can see where it is going here i mentioned, toward prince george's county and mount vernon in toward prince george's county. that is the only one in the game. we have a couple other showers out there, but nothing really to worry about the other thing we have been looking at is the heat and the humidity. look at the heat index, high of 97. saw heat index earlier of 101, the warmest we have been. manassas, way down though as a result of the shower activity only down to 75. it will continue to be hot and very humid as we go on through the night tonight and really, as we go on through the next seven days temperatures tomorrow, 92 degrees, 40% chance of storms mostly in northern virginia, not too worried about the rest of the area northern virginia, southern maryland, best chance tomorrow, another chance sunday high of 90. 91, monday 92 tuesday hit 90 each day there, we continue to keep the heat wave alive, wednesday, thursday and fray day temperatures still on the very warm side, the humidity will stay up right on through the end of next week.

again, we will continue to see a chance of showers and storms just about every day for the next seven days. the summer-like pattern wants to stick around a while. >> no end in sight at this moment. thank you doug. a howard university alum at the center of a growing controversy. tonight, the backlash amid reports that a civil rights leader lied about her own race. and they captured headlines the day they were born. not just in d.c., but across the country. now nearly 20 years later

ever since the thompson sextuplets were born we have been following their story, we were with them at george up to university hospital, with them for birthday parties and tonight catching up with them as they prepare for an exciting new chapter. been a little more than 18 years since the thompson sex ten lutz made history. >> talk about time flying, now

time for another milestone. two of the girls are getting ready for graduation day. as news4's zack zachary kiesch shows us a great time to reflect on the family's amazing journey. . anybody can do t. >> reporter: today a reason to celebrate, graduation and celebrations. >> this is emily thompson octavia thompson richard thompson stella thompson who is graduating, used to cry and ann marie thompson. >> reporter: jackie thompson and her five surviving sextuplets took the world by storm on may 8, 1997. >> and i first had my kids, i wasn't getting no support. >> reporter: the family made history, the thompsons were the first blacks in d.c. to have sextuplets. >> i remember it like it were yesterday, i have always been really fascinated by twins and triplets. >> reporter: the real story, the disparity of public and private support the thompsons got in comparison with the white family in a similar position help came from the most unlikely of places. jessica, a 16-year-old from

pennsylvania. >> when i read the newspaper article and i saw this two families in a similar situation were being treated so differently because of the color of their skip. >> reporter: she rallied her classmates, strollers, diapers, a van. when media got wind, more attention. howard university offered scholarships when they reached college. >> allowed me to attend. they, like what? >> they are resilient, they are smart, they are strong. they are loving, warm and so appreciative. >> reporter: today as two girls prepare to graduate from hospitality high school and the other three will do the same next year, a chance to reconnect and reflect. reporting in northeast d.c., zachary kiesch, news4. >> talk about a load off that mom's shoulders. >> i know. i'm looking at her, besides looking at how grown up the kids are now, looking at her to see how she has weathered the storm. holding up pretty well, i would say. good for all of them. >> that's right. we have posted some of our favorite packages on the thompson kids on our nbc washington app. you can go there and just search

sextuplets. next, a dangerous drug, nearly a century old, possibly to blame for a local student's death. what health officials are now doing to keep it out of the hands of tee and -- >> some point i realize i needed help so i went outside. >> a garbage collector's quick thinking saves the life of a stranger. the training one local county now want all employees to complete. plus, every bottle has a hero's story to tell. how a local mother and a calif

a teenager divide an apparent drug overdose while celebrating her birthday and tonight, health officials in d.c. are talking about how to prevent similar deaths. >> yeah, news4's derrick ward shows us why overdoses respect the only

-- aren't the only problem with the drug called molly. >> reporter: victoria callahan, a native of virginia was back home celebrating her 19th birthday wednesday night. police said she had taken the drug during a concert at echo stage in northeast d.c.. >> years ago, there was a -- some interest in being able to understand if there was a psychiatric indication for some of these medications and that's how their initial effects become known. >> reporter: overdoses are rare but they do happen and even without overdosing, there can be adverse effects. >> hypothermia is one of them and some people think that that just means, oh, you just deal with it by taking off your clothes and dancing and having a good time and working off a sweat. >> reporter: but it can cause liver and heart damage over time or immediately so the challenge is how to stop the manufacturer and sale of the drug. >> a lot of it is public information and awareness

making sure that our parents and families understand the harm associated with these drugs. >> reporter: there are other investigative means as well, information on the sellers and efforts to track don't lab where it's manufactured. with any illegal and synthetic drug, the dangers are not always taken seriously but they are always present. >> would be indicative of playing russian roulette. >> reporter: derrick ward, news4. learning more about the woman hit and killed by a montgomery county school bus yesterday morning. school officials tell us the victim, crucita reynoso worked as a school bus attendant. the bus hit her as she cross crabs branch way in rockville, less than a mile from where she worked. the tragedy has hit the department very hard because the victim and the bus driver knew each other. no charges have been filed. the fight over free range parenting has been lighting up social media and now the state of maryland is clarifying its official policy. this all comes out of a case involving one family in montgomery county where the parents let their 6 and

10-year-old kids walk home alone. officials investigated these parents but ultimately, cleared them of neglect. and now, maryland officials are going one step further saying the state shouldn't investigate families unless kids are harmed or face substantial risk of harm. we all count on sanitation workers to pick up the trash but, in the up to of vienna virginia, they can also step in to save a life. northern virginia bureau chief, julie carey, explains why mandatory first aid training paid off in a big way for one woman. >> reporter: track truck workers on the move, winding up and down the neighborhoods. he was subbing on a trash truck when he spotted a woman who needed help, his help. a woman outside her house, looking upset, unsteady. >> i see the woman walk from the home. she walked different. >> reporter: jane evans will pick up the story, alone in her home and took a pill. it didn't go down.

she pushed her medical alert pendant. >> i just panicked. actually, i was thinking i cannot die on a pill, 'cause how are they going to explain that to my sons. but i -- some point, i realized i needed help. so i went outside. >> reporter: jane's plan was to get to her neighbor's house for help. she saw gul first and gestured to him to come over. >> i was trying to point to my neighbor's house and he -- he started to turn and then he said, no. he said, stand up. put your hands up. and then went pfft and i was alive. >> reporter: a successful heimlich maneuver. gul went to get the neighbor. the ambulance arrived and jane was type. by then, gu will ever l and the garbage truck long gone. when jane called town hall to praise gul, she learned why he was so quick to react. all 180 employees are required to get first aid, cpr and aed training every other year. the idea, they are everywhere the public might need help. mary beth bustle teaches the classes. >> training every two years, we are hopeful that something happens, they won't panic that happened is proof they can go out there and do it. >> reporter: jane is thankful. >> i just admired him so much

and i admire the up to of vienna for doing this training. >> reporter: this is gu almost's take away. >> she is feeling good. i feel good, too. >> reporter: in vienna virginia, julie carey, news4. >> quick thinking. changes may be coming to our road in virginia. mappers want to narrow the driving lanes on franconia road between craft and south van dorn to make room for bike lanes in the alexandria area, fairfax county. right now those lanes are wider than average and not only improve bicycle safety but boost a plan for fair schools. some different options will be discussed monday night in a community meeting at edison high school. still ahead shots fired on a major highway and tonight, the search is on for a suspect. i'm david culver. overnight, their family tripled in size. >> i didn't really talk to my wife at that point, i think and i just said you know, we got room. >> a family of 13 left homeless by a devastating fire welcomed

in by another family. next at 6:00 what one northern virginia community is doing to help them out. i love that story. take a look right now down at the storm team4 radar, the storm making its way way through

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still no arrest after a shooting along the wb park bay someone shot two people near route 450 last night and that created some major backups. this is video from chopper4 showing you just how bad it was. not clear how badly those victims were hurt. the i-team learned cameras will be going up along the about w parkway in maryland and the gw parkway in virginia. right now neither one of those roads has cameras police can use. a recent news4 i-team investigation ruled officers are worried about blind spots. maryland state highway administration says it expects to have six new cameras on the bw parkway by january but those are not police cameras. they will belong to the state highway administration for monitoring purposes only.

a northern virginia community is trying to help one of their own after a devastating fire in fairfax. you can see the damage left behind. tonight, a couple and their 11 children are without a permanent place to call home. news4's david culver shows us who stepped in to keep the family together. >> reporter: drive by the fairfax home and you will see why they can't live here. >> i scream a lot, fire, fire, fire, get out get out, get out. >> reporter: an electrical fire ripped through their house last week, left their belongings charred but spared their lives. i thankful that everybody got out of the house and everybody safe. >> reporter: 19-year-old raymond is the eldest. he has ten little brothers and sisters. his dad trying to reassure his family. >> i try to be positive, you know? but i'm going to have a very difficult time right now. >> in the middle of their tragedy, there is joy. >> reporter: that touch of joy, thanks to mitzi carlin and her husband. their front door, pretty much sums them up. a marine corps family dedicated

to country and god. >> i guess i wasn't thinking about my head i was thinking with my heart. >> reporter: the carlins' youngest, nick goes to the is a imschool as the other kids that's about all they knew of each other. the principal said the family needed some help. our go is to have a vehicle that the whole family can get together and be transported. >> reporter: the car lynn and their own four kids did even more. >> i didn't really talk to my wife at that point, i think, i just said, you know we have got room. if you want to come why don't you come over and look and if you feel comfortable we love to have you in our house. we didn't forget anybody? yeah i forgot nick. i forgot mine. >> reporter: not different from his deployments.

>> the one thing that i do know is that we never leave anyone behind on the battlefield. marines take care of their own. what i have done for 22 years isn't different than my community and church. we take care of our own. >> the family has been through a lot. their journey to this country meant escaping the rwandan genocide. they are finally settled and making progress when that fire broke out. up fortunately, the family did not have renter's insurance. and it's for that reason, doreen and chris friends set up an online account, gofundme, so they can try to raise some money, help family out. i have tweeted to you the a link to that and on our nbc washington app, search fire family. . good to know nice people out there. very nice. >> so many people say, oh we should help, we should do something. very few would actually say -- >> open their home. >> we are gonna do it, bring them into our house. amazing. >> difference between saying it and acting on it. the family did just that. what a life experience for all those -- all the children involved. for sure. >> all right. >> david culver, thank you. still ahead, her parents say she is living a lime the new fallout amid reports an naacp

leader and howard university alum misrepresented her own race. plus, raising a glass in their honor. how a wine company is paying tribute to our veterans for

tonight, a howard university alum is under fire over allegations she lied about her own race. rachel dolezal is the leader of the spokane, washington, naacp, city leaders are investigating whether she violated policy by lying about her race on a job application. she identified herself as black white and american indian but her parents say she is caucasian and has been pretending to be black for years. she knows it's false, but i think she's told herself as well as she's told others this erroneous identity of hers enough that by now, she may believe it more than she believes the truth. >> rachel dolezal is not comment willing much the spokane naacp held a meeting last night and as

of now nothing has changed. dolezal will lead the jeep membership meeting this coming monday. a lot of talk about this on social media. we have asked to you weigh in on the controversy. as you can see, a slight majority say dolezal should not keep her position at the naacp. thousands of american troops died fighting in iraq and afghanistan, and while their sacrifice has been praised their names often become casualties as well. now a local beer and wine company is trying to change that and news4 shows us how. >> reporter: on october 3, 2009, 400 taliban fighters attacked a small outpost of 53 u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. 21-year-old army specialist stefan nace from virginia had just finished duty but he ran back to his post to help his fellow soldiers. he died that day. the next day his mother,

vanessa adelson, received a knock on her door. >> i don't remember whether i fell to the ground or fell into my husband's arms but, um i remember going outside and screaming on the front porch. >> reporter: adelson says her son was the kid everyone loved. he was funny and fun-loving but he also had a strong sense of duty and wanted to serve the military to make a difference in his country. >> you know you're trying to not only remember your child but for other -- other people to remember him and the sacrifices he made. >> reporter: one year ago, adelson discovered honor, a winery and brewery that pays tribute to men and women in the armed forces by sharing their stories and donating to charities for fallen and injured troops. >> now i have somebody who has said i care about your son. >> reporter: founder dave keener comes from a long line of veterans. >> i wanted to do something not only to honor my family but to honor those that have served our

country. and i look at wine and beer as a means of celebration. it's the raising the glass in someone's honor for the courage and the loyalty and the commitment of what they've done for our country. >> reporter: the wine is made in napa valley and sold at distributors across the country, including oakton wine shop. each package contains a tribute card stories of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters who made the ultimate sacrifice. >> and we want these stories to be real. it's not about you know, how they were injured or how they were killed. it's about their life. these are real people. >> reporter: adelson believes these real stories not only salute the brave but start conversations about how to support veterans and their families. she has become a strong advocate herself. i fight for them every day. especially the up abouts that came home with stefan, i'm their surrogate mom and i get phone

calls all the time when they are in distress and i help them. >> reporter: honor fights with her to keep stephan's memory alive and keep them from being for gotten. >> shehonor started a program to send happened written notes to family on the anniversaries of their soldier's death. saluting our veterans a half-hour special honoring those who serve airs saturday at 10:00 in the morning here on nbc4. >> looking forward to that. doug is back with more about the storms moving through the area and our weekend weather, too. >> yeah. you know, i think we are going to see similar weekend weather to what we have seen out there today, hot and humid, isolated storms exactly what we have out there right now. most of the area is dry, but if you have been through the showers yeah, they were coming down pretty good. right on nuttily road near 66, around the vienna area about an hour ago. one of our photographers caught this rain coming down pretty hard around that area. right now, that rain in through

i-95, right on through the district. look at storm team4 radar see where the rain is. isolated. here's one area. here's two, up toward morgan county, west virginia moving toward hagerstown, another one well north of baltimore. this is the one we will focus on, 'cause it's in our area herndon, back toward great falls bethesda, shower activity through d.c., seeing showers. i-95 a mess this time of day, as well as the 495. the woodrow wilson bridge, yeah, sloppy there too, move on through the rest of the evening hours, notice where this is going, straight to the east, heads up, if you live in prince george's county, about to get rain in your area, too. same deal another hot day, high temperature, 92, a good chance, isolated or scattered shower, same deal on sunday, not a washout though, 90 degrees on sunday, 91 monday keep the heat wave going on tuesday, a high of 92.

then a little cooler but still rather warm and humid high temperatures in the upper 80s to around 90 degrees. >> thanks, doug. coming up in sport, a homecoming for jordan zimmermann. why his return to wisconsin

dave johnson pitching in to give us a hand looks like the nats are -- they are missing this heat wave because they are up in wisconsin it is 50 degrees. >> water slide. >> yeah. most of the day wandering around this building, nats lost as of late. nats game two of the series, nats could use take two on the month of june. they have lost seven of ten games and real pain to go with the painful results one player

to the 15-day dl. carpenter activated to a team that frankly has had far too many inactive players. they tell me the show goes on, jordan zimmermann on the mound tonight. he likes playing against his hometown brewer, against the brew crew. listen to this 4-0, 2.35 e.r.a. and five career starts. look at. this zimmerman from a place called ar upon dale, wisconsin york think i said that right auburndale wisconsin, pictures from his 2004 -- >> look at that. >> yearbook to prove it. he is not going to love us for do that population 703.

about 2 hours and 45 minutes away from miller park. we had to prove that he was from auburndale wisconsin. also tonight the orioles, winners of six. among baseball teams, we switch to college baseball, omaha and the college world series, the cavaliers, their fourth appearance in seven years in the college world veers and second consecutive. maryland fans know that. super regional the last two years. virginia opens play against arkansas tomorrow. really, the cavs not feeling it right now. staying loose. we stay loose with the redskins, the thrill of organized team activity, in the rearview mirror, the minicamp begins next week. darryl green told us a make or break year for robert griffin the third. when fullback darryl young

stopped by today the subject came up. >> you know, what it's no the my responsibility to say if it's a make or break year for him. it is a make or break year for this team. robert griffin is the leader, we love him appreciate him, understand his work ethic. me, i look at the guys every year got better, whether people understand it or the no, work back on his body again, growing as a professional as opposed to drawing in the offseason, a lot more thing it is a come with being a professional quarterback, i think he looks good, making reads and taking responsibilities for everything that goes on between the white lines. that is what you need from the quarterback. >> see the rest of young's interview sunday night on sports final progress redskins making this season. holding kangaroos, all that on sports final. of course, tomorrow night, game five between the blackhawks and lightning, 8:00 right here on nbc4, even out and about, watch the game on your phone, download the nbc washington app because nothing is a

conversation starter like hockey. >> no wonder so popular at the bars. >> great conversation starter.

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