family members of the victims tell the accused killer they forgive him. dylann roof came into the church wearing a fanny pack and waited an hour before opening fire on a bible study group. he shot all nine victims multiple times before walking out with a handgun. jay gray joins us with the latest on all this. >> reporter: a lot unfolding here today, from that same affidavit where that information is from are words that witnesses say he stood over some of those in the bible study using racial slurs before leaving. we have gotten a statement from his family and they have releasinged in a written statement, words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief they reach out to the family members of those victims and offer their prayers for those victims and their families as well. they are offering a prayer it

says, for peace and healing for the families of the victims and this entire charleston community. so, for the first time this afternoon, we are hearing from the family members of dylann roof, the 21-year-old accused here, the community continues to gather and try to honor those lost. >> i'm setting your bond, young man, at $1 million. >> reporter: as accused killer dylann roof stood in court today the most powerful words did not come from the judge. >> i just want everybody to know he forgive you. >> reporter: roof stared straight ahead as family members of the victims talked about their loss. the 21-year-old has apparently confessed to carrying out the massacre inside the emanuel ame church. at one point, even telling investigators he almost didn't go through with it because everyone was so nice to him. today, south carolina governor nikki haley made it clear, his punishment should be anything but nice.

>> we will absolutely will want him to have the death penalty. this is the worst hate that i have seen and the country has seen in a long time. >> reporter: as the legal process and investigations continue, we are now learning more about the personal side of this horror. witnesses say 26-year-old tywanza sanders tried to took roof out of shooting others before he was killed. reverend sharonda coleman singleton leaves behind a legacy of giving as a speech therapist coach and mom of three. the city will change the name of the library where cynthia hurd was a branch manager to honor her memory. and there are similar stories and tributes pouring out now for the other victims of the senseless murders here. >> this hateful person came to this community with some crazy idea he would be able to divide and all he did was make us more united and love each other even more. >> reporter: for many, it's the only way they can find the strength to try and move on with nine pillars of their community gone.

as we talked about, they are gathering right now to try and share some of that strength, honoring the families and the victims themselves in this tragedy. look a little more about the hearing today. he did not plead, didn't get the opportunity. and the judge set the next hearing in this case for late october. that is the very latest here in charleston, south carolina. i'm jay gray. doreen, back to you now. >> jay thank you. as the charleston community mourns, people there are discovering one thing they didn't lose and that's their love for each other regardless of race. news4's chris lawrence continues our team coverage now. >> reporter: the feelings are just as raw as ever but there is a growing sense that dylann roof did not get one thing that he was looking for. you see it in every bouquet or balloon that someone brings, hope. even for people like quentin washington, who lost a friend and mentor. >> i'm still in a state of shock. i can't believe something like that would happen like this here in charleston, my hometown.

>> reporter: he met cynthia hurd years ago at the library where she was a local institution. what do you most remember about her? >> she was so nice. smiling, always talking to people. that's the cynthia hurd that i knew. >> why did you do it? >> how do you feel? >> reporter: police say dylann roof shot cynthia because of her race and he wanted to split black from white. doesn't look like it worked. >> i mean, we love each other. >> reporter: you'd think that about these two. they actually just met. >> she look like she need a hug when i had walk up. >> yes, thank you. >> that's what you did. >> so much. >> reporter: the two say the shooting actually brought them together. >> you can see that you know, we didn't let it divide us. he did the exact opposite of what he intended. >> reporter: the thing is they actually exchanged information to keep in touch. just trying to make the best of a truly, truly awful moment. in charleston, chris lawrence news4. there have been countless vigils across the country today,

including this one at the metropolitan ame stuart on k street in northeast d.c. people of different backgrounds and faiths played held hands and paid tribute to the lives lost. coming up in our next half hour, derrick ward talks to local people about the tragedy down in charleston and talks about what people can learn from it. that's coming up in a live report at 6:30. our other big story is the weather. strong storms have moved out and revealing the damage left behind. first in maryland, lightning hits a home in damascus last night, sparking a fire. you can see the aftermath. the family says they are going to be out of that home for months as they begin to make some major repairs. reston, neighbors say they took cover, fearing a tornado was about to him. when they emerged after the storm they found trees down on their homes and cars. now some residents say a local regulation is making their neighborhood less safe during these types of storms. mark segraves is in reston tonight with that part of the story. mark?

>> reporter: yeah pretty noisy out here because crews like this have been working since early this morning cleaning up the debris, chainsaws, wood chippers going, all day long. and it's because 60-mile-an-hour winds whipped through this neighborhood, ripping down trees. and as you can see, this part of reston has got a lot of old tree growth and neighbors say that's problem and that they should be able to take down trees like this before they fall down. >> lasted four or five minutes, winds were very strong. seems like it was hurricane-force winds. >> reporter: the winds knocked out power, ripped trees from the ground and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in just this one community. >> very intense. very brief. so there was no time to do anything, except to hear our niece yelling. >> really shocked by what we saw around here, particularly my neighbor with the tree that

split his house. >> pretty scary. i think everybody's kind of taking a second look at their -- their trees that survived. >> reporter: residents in this part of reston say their homeowner's association makes it difficult to remove trees that are in danger of falling before a storm comes. you have to go through a process in reston to get approval to remove a tree. >> i think resttion should really be looking at ways to make homeowners have ways to take trees down that put their houses in peril. >> reporter: i just spoke to the executive director of the reston association and she says, yes, there are restrictions on how neighbors are allowed to take down trees but she added that any time that there is a tree that's in imminent danger of causing damage or -- to property or to life that within one day, within 24 hours and one phone call, residents can get approval to take those trees down. back to you guys in the studio.

>> all right, mark seagraves. right now only light rain on the radar, things will be very different this time tomorrow. the remnants of tropical storm bill moving in. doug breaks down the timeline for us. doug? >> yeah that timeline has those storms and really the heaviest rain coming in tomorrow night. so i think tomorrow during the day should be fine. don't worry about those plans, but if you have got plans tomorrow evening, tomorrow night, those are the ones you may want to think about changing. take a look at the radar right now, we do have some shower activity out there toward the west, you see nothing around the d.c. metro area, winchester, i-81, starting to see the showers move in toward the region, on this track, they will continue down will you northern virginia, may see the next hour and a half, two hours, something i will continue to watch for sure. here's bill. look at the circulation. still a very well circulated storm making its way up toward our region. as it moves our way what we will see tomorrow a couple showers, a couple thunderstorms, then some very heavy rain we have a flash flood watch in affect, possible strong storms,

winds upwards 50 miles per hour, watching this one closely guys, the latest in a couple minutes. >> thank you, doug. for four days he fought to survive, but tonight, police tell us a 2-year-old boy pulled from a lorton pool has died. lifeguards were clearing the pool because of lightning on sunday when they spotted the little boy. they performed cpr, which got him breathing and gave him a pulse, but police don't expect to file any charges in this case. we asked if they would make changes in their staffing and they said they will have ten lifeguards on duty at all times. a father in his 20s is dead and his 3-month-old son in grave condition in charles county. chopper4 flying over their home in indian head mary land, the father shot himself, it is not clear what happened to the baby who was unconscious, not breathing when taken to the

hospital. we showed you the emotional pleas from the police chief. now it appears the public is responding to calls from d.c. police for help. news4's megan fitzgerald is live with one tip that led to an arrest and a shooting that critically injured a teenager. meagan? >> reporter: and doreen police are stressing the fact that they want to thank the community for the tips that came in. if it weren't for those tips they say it's possible the suspect who shot a 15-year-old boy at this bus stop behind me here could still be on the run, but insecondtead tonight, 22-year-old derek decure is in custody. we spent the day in this southeast community speaking to neighbors who say they are afraid to call police to report a suspect because they feared they, too could be shot. just in the last six months, d.c. has had 60 murders. that's 17% higher than last year this time. that's part of the reason why some neighbors say they are concerned. >> in this neighborhood, we hear shots all the time. there's no spotters in our neighborhood so we don't be

knowing where the shots are coming from. normally, we keep walking. you hear a shot, and then you keep walking. >> reporter: now, on tuesday, just after midnight, more shots were fired a source close to the investigation says decure tried to rob a 15-year-old boy of his designer clothes on the bus but when he refused to give them up and exited that bus, that's when we are told the suspect shot him in the back of the head. now that teenager, we are told, is in grave condition tonight at the hospital. we are expecting a candlelight vigil out here right at the bus stop where he was shot. we did have an opportunity to speak with councilwoman la ruby may, she tells us that she is encouraging the community here and neighbors everywhere to call police if you see something suspicious or you know a suspect related to a crime. you can remain anonymous. doreen? >> meagan fitzgerald reporting. thanks meagan. next, big problems inside one of our local liquor agencies first exposed by the news4 i-team. tonight, why some lawmakers are

frustrated with the proposed fixes. a disturbing date rape outside a local courthouse. now a woman is dead, a teenager is in custody and serious questions are surrounding this case. plus, growing calls for gun control after that church massacre in south carolina. "meet the press" moderator, chuck

the charleston community is working to move from hatred to healing as the suspected gunman sits in jail. dylann roof is charged with the murder of nine people inside a church and tonight, we have learned he is being held in a cell right next to a white police officer charged with killing a black man earlier this year. that was in north charleston. stories like these are having an impact on next year's race for the white house. >> race and gun violence are issues the candidates are going to have to address. and "meet the press" moderator

chuck todd is here. what do you think the candidates are going to do now with this? >> i don't think they want to do anything with it. >> can they? >> i don't think they can get awithaw away with it. this is south carolina, a primary state. you brought up the fact that roof is next to the cell of the real sort of racial split that we have in this country about law enforcement and the relationship with african-americans. that you can see both partied started to become comfortable talking about, now throw in the basic fact that guess what there's still racism in america and particularly in the south and then all of a sudden, south carolina has had this debate about the confederate flag over the years that bubbles up and something that is a cultural split. i mean, we saw it we had, i think our own survey that's been out circulating around. is it a symbol of southern heritage or a symbol of racist hate? and basically, the country is split right down the middle. south carolina is no different. so i think -- i think the

uncomfortable questions are going to get asked of them but i don't think the candidates are going to embrace talking about these issues. >> tough watching the president talking about this yesterday. he has been there before. and talking about how this doesn't -- this doesn't happen in other countries. >> i found it fascinating that he went guns before race on this yesterday, 'cause this is clearly a hate crime and clearly, racially driven as now he has confessed to that. but the president's frustration on the gun violence issue is something that you know i have heard him talk about off the record sessions, he does feel as if he has surrender to the politics much the politics are frozen on this. we are going to look at this in a unique way on sunday we have some interesting videos of people that are serving the rest of their life in prison for committing gun crimes and they talk to cameras, to their 18-year-old selves to talk about their regret and this is a new movement that law enforcement officials are using to try to use sort of a moral and values

you can't pass a law, right where that debate is over here to try to get young kids to say, you know, what you don't need a gun. guess what the consequences for using it are pretty, pretty bad. >> pretty grave. >> important message to try to get. >> powerful videos, unbelievable, these guys that are serving time in sing sing. >> thank you, chuck. >> you bet. >> always a pleasure. >> you can watch "meet the press" with chuck todd this sunday on -- right here on nbc4 at 10:30. thank you, chuck. >> going to start after a rainy night in these parts, right, doug? >> yeah. we are in for a lot of rain i think, coming up late saturday night into the day sunday morning. but sunday morning, it is all moving out of here by that time, i think most of the day sunday is going to be okay. we will get one dry day and that would be sunday, the heat index around 100 degrees. >> oh my. >> i don't have a whole lot of good news out there for the weekend. if you are making your way out and about tonight, i'm not too worried about it but you may want to take the umbrella just in case. current temp chur 87 degrees.

heat index around 90. very warm and humid afternoon, cloudy skies look at the rest of the area much cooler, 82 manassas 82 in the gatorsburg area. you see the urban heat island effect area in the d.c. area, 87, shows a west wind. now the rain, nothing around d.c. notice back to the west, we are looking at some showers coming through and they are starting to actually intensify a little bit just south of winchester, frederick county virginia seeing that rain up toward berkeley county, martinsburg, down i-81, toward shenandoah county. southeast, near front royal in the next 20 to 30 minutes. along 66. see some areas that are wet, especially in through northern virginia over the next couple of hours. why i say you may want to keep that umbrella handy. some may come in toward d.c. around the 7:30, 8:00 hour.

here is the remnants of bill circulating south of st. louis, a lot of rain associated with this, a couple of tornado warnings with these storms. that's the kind of system making its way our way during the day tomorrow. 8 a.m. tomorrow clouds a couple of showers but not much, not too worried. if you have games tomorrow, kids have games, 10:00 softball game 11:00 soccer game, i'm okay with that i think that's going to be okay, just on the warm and humid side, even 1:00, i think we are good. by around 5:00 we get the heating of the day and then we see our scattered showers and thunderstorms develop. at this time, any storms that develop could have very heavy rainfall after this time 7, 8, 9:00, when we really start to see the heaviest storms develop maybe right on top of d.c. the 8:00 house, watch what happens here, the storm moves through very heavy rain, that is why we have a flood watch in effect now the flood watch in effect for the entire area, exception of fredericksburg extreme southern maryland, even there, a chance for some of that heavy rain, most of the area has upwards of

an inch to two inches of rain that's what we are going to see during the day tomorrow. we will continue to watch out for that. take you hour by hour for the forecast, 77 7 a.m., 83 by 11 90 by 3:00 scattered storms, again, not a whole lot. at 7, heavy rain moves in 84-degree temperature. next four days, 95 sunday heat index over 100. even monday and tuesday, in the 90s. i have got rest of that seven-day forecast coming up in a bit. still ahead a staffer with the republican national committee arrested for sex assault. and tonight, questions about whether there may be more victims. >> violence won't stop our desire for a community our desire for justice, our desire for peace. we got a lot of work to do but today's a good start. >> and we are going to go inside one of the vigils for charleston that's occurring here in washington. and local cheerleaders gearing up for the special olympics world games. meet the joy cheerleaders, coming up. >> j-o-y!

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the news4 i-team first exposed serious issues inside the montgomery county department of liquor control in its beer bust investigation. they uncovered allegations of county workers stealing and also drinking on the job. >> and now, the troubled agency says it has a new plan to fix its long list of problems. but as the i-team's tisha thompson shows us some lawmakers respect convinced this is enough. >> over the last year, the i-team has sheep you how employees were accused of stealing alcohol from the department of liquor control. we found the agency tracking more than $34 million in alcohol sales using a paper-based system, sometimes using sticky notes to track missing inventory. and many restaurants have complained dlc's new computer

system isn't working to get them the alcohol they ordered. today the department of liquor control unveiled a list of 200 action items. it says it is now undertaking to fix these problems, including electronically tracking its inventory, creating a new customer service call center and conducting focus groups to improve the business operation. but throughout the hearing, county council members expressed increasing frustration and skepticism the agency was actually doing enough fast enough to address the issues. >> this is people's livelihoods. this is the only place that they can get the goods that they need to make a living. and every day it takes to get there, you're costing everybody their livelihoods. this is a serious business. we can't wait. >> dlc says it hopes many of the improvements, including the scanning of all delivered product, will be in place by midsummer. tisha thompson, news4 i-team.

>> you can watch the i-team's beer bust investigation by going to our nbc because app and click on investigation. toppled trees, crushed cars and a trail of damage after last night's storms. all new at 6:00 the race to clean up as one system moves out and another system moves in. here at the montgomery county circuit court, a young woman was raped last friday night right here up against this wall under a surveillance camera. she later died. how will that af

ingary and sadness and forgiveness, too, some of the emotions that family members of the charleston church massacre victims shared in court today. they spoke directly to dylann roof, the young man charged in the crime. a woman who survived the shooting by playing dead had

this to say. >> we welcome you wednesday night in our bible study with open arms. you have killed some of the most most -- people that i know. every fiber in my body hurts. i will never be the same. >> new tonight we are also learning more about what happened inside the emanuel ame church on wednesday night. police documents say roof shot all nine of the victims multiple times and that he stood over a witness and made a racially inflammatory remark after the shooting. the affidavits say roof's father and uncle called police after seeing the surveillance photos of him and roof's father told investigators his son owned a .45-caliber handgun. the sense of loss is also being felt here in our area.

today, people from different backgrounds and religious beliefs came together at the metropolitan ame church in washington to learn and heal from this tragedy. derrick ward joins us from northwest where another vigil is about to begin. derrick? >> reporter: that one gets under way about half an hour from now but what was encouraging about that vin it will morning at the metropolitan ame, there was this social presence there and perhaps that is something encouraging that is already starting to emerge from this tragedy. >> can't be anything more important than for us to gather in prayer and shock and solidarity with our friends as they grieve and as americans. we heard horrible news we

stopped what we are doing and we cried. >> reporter: the rabbi says while the gunman entered emmanuel ame church in charleston, the shots he fired were heard elsewhere as well. >> i felt it personally and as an american, a student of our history, where we have seen too many attacks upon people of color. at this time we have to -- we have to remember that we are all in this together. >> reporter: another issue violence and guns amid calls from some quarters for their presence in church. that's not the answer some say even amid d.c.'s emerging concealed carry laws. >> we fought very hard and succeeding in that house of worship it is illegal. you cannot carry guns in house of worship. >> reporter: many say this tragedy presents an opportunity to plot a positive course forward. >> we have to change the culture of violence in america and around the world. >> people are fundamentally good

and we need -- what we need to do is to encourage the good people in the world to speak up louder and to let the voices of light overpower the voices of darkness. >> reporter: this vigil gets under way a half an hour from now sunday, expecting the churches all over the country, d.c. included, tolling their bells at the same time in memories of the victims. live in shaw, derrick ward news4. it was supposed to be date to the movies, but a young woman in rockville never made it home that night. police say her ex-boyfriend raped her outside the courthouse and she died hours later. chris gordon has more on how her death limb pact this criminal case. >> reporter: people find it shocking that it happened in public view. >> it's just unfortunate. i feel so bad for her family though. it's sad. >> reporter: the movie had just ended at the regal theater in rockville last friday night.

they walked around the corner, getting as far as the montgomery county circuit courthouse. 16-year-old marquis turner is charged with second degree rape of his 19-year-old date. the police report says it happened right in front of the courthouse, giving this account. turner pushed her up against this wall, which is concrete and embedded stone and very rough. she pushed back and said no, but he forced himself on her. meanwhile, the whole time, through this security camera, montgomery county sheriff deputies inside were watching the whole thing realtime. the 19-year-old woman with him was transported to a local hospital for a sexual assault exam but she stopped breathing in the ambulance and died on the way there. i asked if prosecutors are considering adding a homicide charge. >> we are leaving all options open. we want to see what the medical examiner says. we need to determine if there was any kind of pre-existing condition or if there was something that was problematic the night of. >> reporter: marquis turner is a sophomore at win stone churchill high school. he has no criminal record. he told police they were going to see a movie and she suggested she was willing to engage in a sexual relationship. the police report indicates

turner said he was unwilling to accept no for an answer. outside the movie theater today i asked this couple what they think. she said no >> so he should have never did it. if they were just friends, then he should have never did that. >> it's tragic. i mean, like she said, a female says no it should be no. >> reporter: here's another thing that makes this case so unusual. marquis turner could face trial here in the montgomery county circuit court which police say is also the scene of the crime. that is the latest live from rockville back to you. let's turn to our weather. the weekend is upon us. strong storms will be moving in tomorrow, but it is not going to ruin your entire weekend. doug, give us the good news. >> the good news is i think we get through most of the daytime hours on saturday and on sunday without a hitch. the evening hours we have a problem. tropical storm bill, the remnants of bill no longer

tropical but still see pretty good circulation associated with it. once it moves our way, this is what we can expect, severe weather risk, whipds swinds, yeah have the flash flood watch between one, to two, to three inches of rain could fall. look at the rainfall forecast. anywhere you see these oranges over four inches of rain. that is a possibility. i have the latest in 15 minutes. >> thank you, doug. a hit to the nats lineup. coming up new reaction from players as we learn more about bryce harper's injury and how it could affect the team. they say life is all about perspective. how would you have liked to wake up this friday morning, look out the window and see this in your driveway? it is a reality here in

a neighbor says it sounded like a steamroller coming through, a storm ripped through the colesville and white oak area last night. >> the high winds knocked down trees, damaging homes, knocking

out power. zachary kiesch, all 6'5" of him is in colesville looking at the cleanup. zach? >> reporter: i have trees beneath me trees all around me. i mean, and this was the real reality that a lot of folks in this neighborhood woke up with this morning, the sheer force of this. the question of what to do. i mean it took piece of bark like this and just tossed them around like kids' toys in this neighborhood. the good news is that cleanup is happening and just about everybody is chipping in. >> car's been totalled. >> reporter: car's done. so are the trees. but this neighborhood, standing tall, helping each other out and picking up. phillip rinaldi is going electric. >> good. this is the biggest task i have had to use with it. obviously, little branches are cool. but i've taken down some pieces already an got my work cut out for me today. >> reporter: so did montgomery county's d.o.t. crews, set to do concrete this morning, then they

got the call, get your saws. what wasn't open to debate is this wasn't a typical storm. ask james cook. pretty scary and just chaotic situation. >> reporter: there were contractors working at this family home when this tree hit the house. >> they thought it was an earthquake at first, 'cause they were you know busy working and suddenly, boom, that tree hit. >> reporter: today, they shifted direction. >> basically just, you know, doing emergency repairs at this point. just you know got to get the tree off the roof and then we got some guys that are gonna, you know tarp it, make sure it's -- stays water tight in case another storm rolls through. >> reporter: if you're wondering about insurance, the best way i can explain it is that it's complicated f a tree lands on a house, that's one thing. if it's wind damage or cleanup like this, it's a whole other story. i talked to the owner of this tree, the owner of this tree. he says $4500 to get this guy cleaned up. reporting live out here in

colesville, back to you guys in the studio. >> thank you, zack. an employee of the republican national committee has resigned after being charged with sexual abuse. d.c. police say there could be more victims. samuel ricardo sanchez was arrested this week. he is charged in connection with an incident on new year's eve and a separate incident from last august. hill now com reports he has pleaded not guilty. sanchez was named one of the hill's 50 most beautiful in 2013. let's go! >> a pretty special group of cheerleaders trying to make history of their own. they are preparing to take their

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tonight a special group of young women is getting ready to make history. they are a local cheerleading squad and they are going to go international next month. they invited me to one of their practices and i promise they will make you smile. >> here we go, world games. here we go.

>> i love cheerleading because it makes me happy. >> i like to be with my friends who cheer. >> meet the joy cheerleaders. they come together like this once a week in rockville to work on their cheer routines. but that's just part of what you see happening here. intellectual disabilities, challenges bring these girls together but each one of these girls is bringing something special to this group. >> five six, seven eight. >> reporter: they express their enthusiasm in all kinds of different bays. [ cheering ] and they all bring extra big hearts to everything they do. look how they support each other how much fun they have being together. spend just a few minutes with them and you will have fun, too. get a little closer and you might even get a hug. >> it is a lot of practice, but it's fun. >> reporter: the joy cheerleaders couldn't do this without a lot of support from the community. the shockwaves all stars gym

donates their time here and their coach is volunteering, too. >> yeah your smiles? hello? >> reporter: megan smith cheered for the baltimore ravens for six years before they took on this new challenge. >> the outlet for them to express themselves in just who they are, their energy their love for dancing, their love for music. a lot of them really relate to music. and it just kind of like opens up their souls. go joy, go. three times. >> reporter: they started out with a dozen girls four years ago. now there are 60. they have won the maryland state competition this year. >> here we go. >> reporter: next month comes an even bigger challenge. this team will travel to los angeles to perform at the special olympics world games. it is the first time cheer squads have ever been invited. these girls are ground breakers and they can't wait. >> it's very like, mind blowing, very like, very cool. >> reporter: they have been working hard to perfect their cheers for the big event. it won't be a competition this time but they hope that will happen soon.

and they are happy to teach what they know to a guest. >> j-o-y. let's go joy! >> reporter: the joy cheerleaders have an unlimited supply of joy to share with everyone who gets to see them. >> j-o-y! let's go, joy! >> so much fun. i didn't want to leave that day. the joy cheerleaders are trying to raise $80,000 to help fund their trip to the world games in los angeles next month. right now they have raised just a quarter of what they need. they are raising money through a gofundme page and we have posted a link on our website to that gofundme page. just search joy cheerleaders. >> and the big one won't be there because she is holding them back a little bit. >> definitely holding them back. >> it's okay. it is all right. >> i don't know if that kick was really a kick. >> keep working on it.

>> i tried out for cheerleading in ninth grade and i didn't even make the first cut. that was my big chance right there >> looked like you had fun. you know we have got a lot of rain coming in tomorrow and that is really going to be the story the remnants of tropical storm bill move our way. if you have plans tomorrow night to go out, you might want to call and say, yeah, honey, maybe we cancel tomorrow night and rent a movie and stay in. the heavy rain moves in around the time we are thinking about heading out around 7, 8:00 to tomorrow. now, there could be some shower activity and a few showers now, 81 gaithersburg, 82, manassas. look at the rain blossomed the last hour or so shower activity up to the north right around front royal come down through parts of 66 in through northern fauquier county, prince william county. anything close to d.c., on the light side, the heavier stuff will stay just down to the south. take the umbrella with you this evening just in case. another little line back here

i'm watching. back to the west though, here's bill. again, making its way our way. with that, this is the hour by hour forecast 7 a.m. no worries, 83 by 11 not expecting anything there, rather warm and humid. scattered storms develop during the afternoon, but the heaviest rain arrives after 7:00 and it will get very heavy at times. talking about rainfall upwards of one to two even three inches from this storm. that's why we have a flash flood watch in effect through the night tomorrow night into sunday. sunday i think dry for the most part. 30% chance of a shower, maybe a storm, but most of the day, dry. just hot. 95 on sunday. heat index close to 102. we stay hot all the way through next week, almost ever

what is the latest on your guy, bryce? >> still have a tbd, to be determined when he is going to

be back, but from what we saw yesterday to today it went from the horror of watching your best player on the field clutching his knee and it's turned into hope. harper is still out today. he is sore, but manager matt williams optimistic about his return. harper will be re-evaluated later today. he is on the mend. he fell down last night in serious pain. he slipped planted the knee on the wet grass to throw home. he is the latest national to suffer an injury, with answer team superstar goes down, other players need to do their part. >> you loss your best player certainly arguably one of the best players in the game to an injury for today at least, then guys got to step up. when you lose your three hitter and your five hitter and two fifth of euroyour rotation, you need to step up. >> mvp of the national league, i think, for him to be out, you can't really replace a guy like

that. we got to come together now and do the best we can and fill the gap as good as we can lock look who informs d.c. today, mo'ne davis and little league squad from philly working outs the nats youth academy in d.c. part of a tour to various locations that hold special significance to the civil rights movement. our own max scherzer made a surprise visit the nats ace loving hanging out with the kids, offering tips and all kinds of advice. fire up the band. brian o'connor and virginia taking on florida in the college world series. band only playing the blues for uva, tied at one in the third, ricky martin tees off on this one to right. all the way to the wall martin heads to second with the double, two rbi in the game for him, florida up, 2-1. skip ahead and the gators are opening things up. 9-4 lead in the seventh with a man on second mike rivera smacks this deep to left center, his to the wall too rbi double for him. florida goes on to beat

virginia 10-5 that he is two will play again tomorrow. steph curry and his wife and adorable daughter, riley, leading the way as the golden state warriors championship parade under way today, big old party this oakland, fans lining up as early as 5 a.m. to celebrate the warriors first title since 1975. yes mc hammer was there, riding with the mayor. hammer is a huge warriors fan but they would not give him access to the trophy because, guys, he was -- >> you can't touch this. >> you can't touch this. oh, sorry. didn't know you would come back on camera. >> couldn't wait to use that hammer time at the u.s. open, cole hammer 15 years old, bested tiger woods by three strokes yesterday. today, woods picked up where he left off bringing up the rear, miss the cut, the four at the top, we have four players 5 under the lead. tell you about that at 11:00. nightly news coming up next. >> see you at 11:00.

tonight,t, facing the victims. the 21-year-old accused charleston shooter in court as families of the fallen bare their grief. >> i will never be able to hold her again. but i forgive you. >> extraordinary words from the heartbroken. and we learn why the gunman almost didn't go through with it. also the flag fury. why is the confederate flag flying high in south carolina when all others are lowered? the ocean mystery coming ashore. what in the world is causing a red sea to cover california's beaches? and opening up brian williams speaks publicly for the first time since his suspension about what happened and the way forward. "nightly news" begins right now.