worst weather behind us. we continue to watch the weather, this is some of the video we got from germantown overnight. someone thought they could make it through this rushing water and then they wundz up -- wound up submerge told the bumper. >> flood warnings across the area will be expiring soon. in vienna you shouldn't have to worry anymore. but you can see some standing water stranded a car here. it forced police to shut down lawyers road. it is open now once again. well, we have team coverage. we'll check in with chuck in a second, but derrick ward is out and about. he'll show us what's going on in upper marl pro -- marlboro this morning. how does it look? >> reporter: good morning. you see how it looks hire. this is the far northern regions of the paw tuxette river. look at this bridge on water street. used to be a bridge over troubled waters but they have designed this so that this --

there's less stress on the bridge. so the water runs through the grate but you can see it going up against the side of the bridge. you can see how it would shorten the life span of a conventional bridge. this road is closed per se, but we have seen people go through. a lot different scene a little south of here. look at leonard town. this is in the maddux area. we have reports that some 13 structures were damaged there by what they think was the tornado. there's been no confirmation of that, but ten homes were among those 13 structures damaged. others were farm buildings. no one was injured thank goodness. this wind they say -- this high wind and storm that they think hit down there moved along route 242 north into places like horseshoe road and sunny side road. they're down there cleaning that up now. most of the roads that were closed have reopened because water is subsiding somewhat. take a look back here in upper marlboro. you can see at the height of things water was up to that bridge. again, that design kept it from

being damage to this. a little inconvenience of having to go around. as a matter of fact, late last night, some sections of pennsylvania avenue were closed in this general area because of that high water. so what you're seeing now is water starting to subside. still run into some ponding, but looks like the worst of it is over. we are live in upper marlboro. derrick ward news4, back to you. back here in the storm center that storm down across st. mary's county in leonard town and maddux area. we were here yesterday with on that, and my guess is that the weather service will confirm a tornado. we saw rotation as that storm was crossing st. mary's county. some high water. the mow knock acie river in frederick and also parts of the west river in eastern prince george's county in upper marlboro, high standing water across the area. be extra careful this morning.

rain's over. temperatures are in the 60s and 70s now. planning out your sunday, plan on plenty of clouds this morning. by later on this afternoon, increasing amounts of sunshine. a noticeable west breeze today. temperatures will climb into the upper 70s to around 80 degrees in downtown. most of the neighborhoods though will stay in the mid to upper 70s for today. 78 in frederick 77 in annapolis. we'll be breezy so if you're going out sailing on the open waters of the bay could be choppy at times. rest of the week and a look at the fourth of july coming up. while you're looking forward, we are still dealing with problems from yesterday. right now crews are in ft. washington to clean up sewage that spilled into broad creek. wssc is saying that the heavy rain caused this problem. if you're near the affected area you should see signs about it posted. wssc says the overflow is not affecting anybody's drinking

water. we're following two developing stories in maryland. one person is dead after this single car crash in laurel. police tell us the driver of the car lost control and crashed on i-95 just before the icc. right around 4:00 this morning. the driver was ejected and died at the scene. all lanes are back open now. we know the name of a man who died on a crash in 270 overnight. bolton was going around 80 miles an hour at the time he crashed. a chevy chase mother and daughter died after being electrocuted in their basement. this happened yesterday. the 29-year-old mom and her 4-year-old daughter stepped into the water that somehow became energized. news4's darcy spencer reports on the device that many of you have in your basement that could have led to the deaths. >> reporter: a woman and young child suffered an electrical

shock here on connecticut avenue in the chevy chase area of montgomery county. fire and rescue crews were called here around 4:30 in the afternoon after a torrential rainstorm had apparently flooded their basement. a family member came home and found the victim. >> firefighters arrived on the scene within minutes. they immediately initiated cpr and transported the adult female and child, 4 or 5 years old to the hospital. >> reporter: fire officials believe the shock was connected to the sump pump in the basement. sump pumps are usually hard wired into the home's electrical system. investigators are checking to see if there could have been a problem with the pump that led the water to become energized. >> something to do with the sump pump. the ground floor basement area of the home was saturated in water. there was some deep water in the stairwell area where the sump pump was being operated. >> neighbors have sump pumps in the basement and were concerned something like this could happen. >> didn't mention any issues with it.

but hopefully not, and it's worth looking into after such an incident. >> that was darcy spencer reporting. montgomery county firefighter also suffered a shock trying to rescue the two victims, but he's doing okay. well, in the last 15 minutes police identified a man who died when his boat went over the lake linganore dam in frederick maryland. the police say stephen embray the boat's captain died. eight other people were on board and they grabbed on to anything they could. >> some were clicking to rocks, some were rescued by the helicopter. some were pulled out by neighbors. >> now, police say the man who died was again the boat's tape. he was 62. today your ride on metro might be smoother because of the world's police and fire games. the weather postponed some of yesterday's games to today. so in response, metro says it is

running more silver line trains every hour. and the games are headquartered in fairfax but people are playing all over northern virginia this morning. well, right now we're watching what you need to know coming up in the week ahead. tomorrow, montgomery county leaders will talk about the extra money they need to raise to fund the purple line. larry hogan just announced he's moving forward with the light rail project. however he said montgomery and prince george's counties need to pay more to get it done. today, yet another republican will be throwing his name into the race. governor chris christie expected to make it official on tuesday, making him the 14th republican in the race. on wednesday, a suspect in a quadruple murder will be in court. the judge pulled his case back a month. he is accused of killing the savopouloses and the housekeeper last month. dozens were killed and now with we're getting a new -- we're getting a new view of the

terrorist attack on the beach resort. and cutting ties with the confederate flag. and also coming up a water park party takes a terrifying turn.

well, south carolina's governor says she'll make the charleston church massacre right. governor nikki haley made the statement yesterday. mourners honored the lives of cynthia hurd, tywanza sanders and his great-aunt, susie jackson. the funerals were at emanuel ame. remembering his final moments, tywanza sanders mother said he told the shooter, quote, you don't have to do this. well, if you love nascar you'll see a different kind of effort at nascar.

the ceo says it will look for ways to keep fans from flying the confederate flag in the stands. earlier this week nascar said it would take down flags at race tracks and it supported removing the confederate flag from the state grounds. well, it's a sign of hate or is it a piece of heritage in the south? for more 50 years it's flown at the state capital. yesterday, a woman scaled the flag pole and took it down. ron allen has more on the controversy it's created around the country. >> ma'am, ma'am! >> reporter: south carolina's confederate flag came down. >> this flag comes down today. >> reporter: activist bree newsome defied the police saying she could not wait any longer. newsome was quickly arrested along with james tyson there to help her. both from charlotte north carolina, both charged with defacing a monument a misdemeanor.

the flag was back up within an hour. in time for a rally by defenders who insist it's there to honor the sacrifices of confederate soldiers. >> my heritage, my right to keep this flying on our capitol grounds. >> take the flag down! >> reporter: they were quickly confronted by protesters demanding it be removed. >> we want this for all of our children to get this hatred out of our society and way of our minds. we get here and we come to a solution and evolve this country to a better one together. not against. >> reporter: since the massacre at mother emanuel and the images of the alleged gunman, the flag's removal has been called for. president obama said taking the flag down would not be an insult to those who served. >> it would be an acknowledgment that the cause for which they fought -- the cause of slavery was wrong.

>> reporter: the flag is so contentious it takes a super majority to move it. and it's a debate that may or may not begin next week. this emotional debate rages on. ron allen, nbc news, south carolina. well you have heard about the recent shark attacks but people, they keep getting into the water and now another biting on the outer banks. let's look outside. you'll want to watch for some puddles and high water if

you're watching "news4 today." >> new numbers out of taiwan where news outlets now say more than 500 people were hurt in an explosion at a big event. take a look here. some kind of powder ignited by the stage at this water park in taiwan. a thousand people in the crowd, about 180 are in intensive care right now. however, the event's organizers could now face charges for what happened there. we know more about what happened during a massacre by an isis terrorist in tunisia. 38 people and the shooter died in the attack. you're looking at new video where you can see the people just running away from the hotel and the beach. the hotel worker says the attacker used grenades and a gun on the victims before police stopped him. and in france investigators are working to determine whether

isis is to blame for another attack. they say a man beheaded his boss and then took a selfie with the corpse friday. a truck driver was arrested and they're trying to figure out who was the recipient of the picture. developing in upstate new york, police are confident they'll have prison escapee david sweat in custody within the next 48 hours. he's been on the run since his accomplice was shot and killed on friday. they're looking for sweat and they're focusing on the wooded area where richard matt was killed on friday. they want to bring him in sweat alive to learn more about the prison break and those involved. there's another shark attack on the outer banks and the victim is 17 years old. he was bit on the leg, both arms and behind yesterday. on friday, another shark bit a man off the coast of avon, north carolina. this is about 20 miles from where yesterday's attack happened.

now, both victims had to be airlifted to a hospital in virginia. so far, there have been seven shark attacks on the carolina coast in the past two weeks alone. that sounds like a lot. i know we cover shark attacks every summer, but this seems like a pretty big number. >> seems like everything gets started a little bit more. but you never know. maybe sharks are a little hungry. >> you know, people think that it's out in the water. it's not necessarily all the time. they like to hang out in the shallow water too. >> most shark attacks happen close to shore. very few people spend time 30 or 40 feet off shore. for around here a whole lot of not just shallow water, but deep water across our area. after an inundation of rainfall yesterday. rainfall records were crushed at reagan national and at bwi marshall yesterday. so far now for the month of june yesterday's record

rainfall 2.75 at national. that brings the june total up to short of 12 inches. that's the second rainiest june since 1872 in washington. rainiest june 2006. with just over 14 inches. we're more than two inches off the record at reagan national. bwi marshall, more than three inches of rain yesterday, but now that's the number one rainiest june on record at bwi marshall. that's impressive because the old record was 9.95 inches set in june of 1972 with a remnants of what was hurricane agnus. set a lot of high water marks around the state of maryland. all right, a lot of great social media pictures. this is an engagement picture, i know it's good luck if it rains on your wedding day. i don't know if it is if it rains on your engagement party.

congratulations to them. if you want to share your pictures with me, instagram or twitter. right now, the sunshine is get through over washington. skies are mostly cloudy and up to 71 at national airport. southwesterly winds at 7. plan on a west to northwesterly wind at 20 mile per hour or more by later on this afternoon. so it will become a breezy, but sunny afternoon. sunshine coming back today and temperatures courtesy of the moisture and breeze will stay comfortably cooler than average for today. a high impact day yesterday will be replaced by a low impact weather day today. temperatures now mid 60s in northern virginia and if we'll have any rain anywhere today, it will be across southern most pennsylvania, right along the maryland/pennsylvania border. that's it. nothing more than passing sprinkle. around town metro area southern maryland northern virginia all dry. breezy with more sunshine. temperatures inching their way

into the 70s to around 80. could have delays in chicago. rain leaving new york but a lot of rain across northern new england and the gulf coast as well. we still have high water along parts of the monocacy and parts of prince george's county as well. be on the lookout for higher standing water outside today. if you have a picnic on the lawn today, have a little layer of plastic underneath the blanket because the ground ied. we'll the dry for the next two days and then afternoon thunderstorm chances tuesday through friday. doesn't look like any super soakers, but nonetheless, any chance for a rain at this point in time people are mad about. >> well july 4th at least looks like it will be pretty good. >> should be nice, warm and dry. >> thanks chuck. gunshots and gay pride. the shooting that broke up a pride celebration in california. food for thought why doctors say exercise could hurt your weight loss more than it can help.

i'm mark murray. >> i'm carrie dan. >> yet another announcement of a potential 2016 republican candidate presidential candidate. this time chris christie who will make his intentions known on tuesday in his home state. >> if christie jumps into the race he will be the 14th, count them 14th contender for the republican nomination. and the second sitting governor to enter the primary following fellow republican governor bobby jindal of louisiana. >> two others john kasich and scott walker will announce their plans later this summer. of the four current governors only kasich enjoys high approval ratings in his own state. >> it's difficult to appeal to the republican primary electorate especially in states like iowa and s

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you're watching "news4 today." >> so it might be time to put away your running shoes, you can skip the gym. you know, don't worry about getting on that bike. >> that's right. that's because there's more and more research that shows exercise might not have much to do with losing weight. doreen gentzler explains. >> i have had a weight problem literally since i was a little

kid. >> jay berkenbelt said he used to hit the gym five times a week. yet, this was him just a few years ago. overweight and suffering from high cholesterol and high blood sugar. >> it was very frustrating. i'm too young to be having the problems. >> reporter: just look around d.c. you will see people running and biking and buying gym memberships and classes at expensive fitness studios. but experts say if their goal is to lose weight, all that exercise might not be helping and it could even be causing weight gain. >> the problem is that people often look at exercise as a license to eat. >> reportexercise and nutrition science at george washington university's milken institute school of public health. he said exercise stimulates hunger. so people eat more and usually too much after a workout. to make things worse most underestimate the number of calories that going for a run or a cycling class will burn.

>> it is hard to burn a lot of calories through exercise. most people don't like to get on a treadmill and run for an hour and only burn 400 calories. >> when it comes to weight loss i think it's probably 75% diet and 25% exercise. >> reporter: registered dietitian judy kaplan says she hears much of the same thing from her clients. >> i'm doing everything i can. i'm following this and following that. i listen really carefully. i say, just tell me about what you're eating. tell me about your life. when i really look at it, they're eating way more than they think. they're drinking way more than they think. they just really don't have a realistic view of what's going on in their life. >> reporter: that's what happened to jay after he met with kaplan he learned he was eating too much. kaplan adjusted his diet, adding foods that made him feel full and cutting out anything he didn't need. >> i did start to lose weight and that was sort of astonishing to me because i had tried so many things over so much time.

>> reporter: now 75 pounds lighter he says he's feeling better than ever, sticking to his diet plan and now working out with a personal trainer. >> when i turned 40 i was so much healthier than when i turned 30. it was really amazing. >> reporter: doreen gentzler, news4. i like that saying there, when he turned 40 he felt healthier than 30. that gives you hope. >> exactly. your best is yet to come. i think the big thing is just writing it down, even if it's the old fashioned way to tracking exactly what you're eating and drinking a ton of water. >> water is the best thing. >> it is amazing. >> you are what you -- eat. >> exactly. >> it's the truth. all right, coming up new information about a crash on 270. >> what we just learned in the last hour and a half about the driver. chaos in california. gun fire erupts during gay pride celebrations. >> a live look outside, oh,

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in today's top stories one person is dead after this single car crash in laurel. police tell us the driver of the car lost control and crashed on i-95. this is just before the icc around 4:00 a.m. the driver was ejected and died at the scene. all lanes are back open right now. a ramp on 270 also back open. maryland state police say the

driver michael bolton crashed by the exit to middlebrook road overnight and died. he was 53 years old. and chuck says sunny weather is on the way today but a lot are still cleaning up from the flooding and big storms from yesterday and a tornado that touched down in st. mary's county definitely wreaked havoc out that way. wow. that is scary well, the time is 9:32. which made it halfway through the 9:00 hour. now time to check in with chuck. >> chuck put on his galoshes and he's out on the storm team 4 weather deck. >> well, after a crazy day yesterday, amelia did a great job yesterday morning letting you know how bad the weather would get and veronica and i were here all afternoon and tracking the severe weather. second half of your weekend promises to be far superior to the first half. still mostly cloudy outside.

looking northbound over bethesda and chevy chase looking northbound also from our tower camera in rockville right up 355 there. and also looking northbound in northern virginia out towards sugar loaf mountain out in the far distance out there. a nice day. skies are still partly to mostly cloudy at times. temperatures in the upper 60s to around 70. planning out your day, lots of puddles. a lot offal puddles around. a gorgeous breezy increasingly sunny day coming our way today. high right up around 80 degrees. that's almost ten degrees cooler than average. nice breeze, low humidity. you know, you guys are going to save $2 or $3 on air conditioning today, you can give that directly to me. >> we'll buy you a cup of coffee. >> we're watching for developments in the homicide investigation. someone shot and killed a 31-year-old and it happened at his home on patriot lane.

police are offering a $25,000 reward in the case. today, families united by the unsolved murders of their loved ones will hold a vigil today. charnice milton's family organized it. she was shot in southeast back in may. police say she was hit by a stray bullet fired from a man on a dirt bike. 36 other victims will also be remembered at today's event. we're still working to learn in the storms caused this deadly crash out in gaithersburg. this happened on shady grove road and epsilon drive yesterday. the minivan crashed into this toyota cam are. the woman driving the camry died. the other driver was checked out at the hospital and is okay. we now know the name of a woman who died in a hit and run accident in capital heights. we brought you this as a developing story yesterday morning. prince george's county police say a driver hit 56-year-old donna clark while she was riding

her bike on ritchie highway. two cars were racing right before hitting clark. she died at the hospital. d.c. police are searching for a man who broke into a woman's house and sexually assaulted her. this happened at a house in northwest d.c. on 31st and cleveland avenue. police saying that he broke into her home around 4:00 in the morning and then took off after he attacked her. he's in his early 20s, has brown hair in a buzz cut style and he was carrying a dark colored backpack. that's scary stuff, listening to the gun fire at a gay pride event. police in san francisco say the shooting and event were not related. however, a bullet did hit someone in the arm. he'll be okay. police say they took several people into custody. well, coming up, severe weather hit in other parts of the country. but not a concern in phoenix.

and a workcation. how you can escape the office. ouch this story behind this baseball player

you're watching "news4 today." >> well, while we saw heavy rainstorms yesterday, the phoenix, arizona, area dealt with dust storms. the visibility was terrible. thousands lost power when the dust storms hit. the national weather service issued a dust storm warning to the phoenix area urging everyone to stay off the roads and indoors. the seattle mariners say robinson cano does not have a concussion. look at the yellow circle on your screen. the ball cracked him in the head in between innings yesterday. ouch. you can see what it left behind that bump on his temple. cano said it's pretty tender still, but he'll probably be back out to play today. what an all-star. >> tough guys. well our wednesday's child

this week is a bright girl with a passion for the arts. >> she really is. she says in the future she's till deciding between fashion and forensics. news4's barbara harrison take us to meet jasmine. >> 15-year-old jasmine wants to own a small dress shop when she grows up. the owner of the boutique welcomed us and pointed out the unusual things she says a small store owner needs to add to bring people into the shop. >> i just had a passion for fashion. i feel like you do too. >> jasmine says she loves fashion but has other interests too. >> i'm trying to decide when forensics and fashion. >> she could see whatherself as a detective or a fashion designer. >> i'm interested in making my own clothes making shirts and pants and maybe some shoes. >> she likes art and music and

she likes to sing. she's an artistic person. >> her adoption recruiter says she'll be great at whatever she decides. she says she knows what she wants. >> edgy, classy, tomboyish, i'd have it all. >> and she was invited to try on a few things here. every outfit was a perfect fit. what she needs most right now is an adoptive family that's a perfect fit for her. >> just people that are like loving and really listen to your problems and are there for you. >> katherine had some gifts for her to take home including a gift on how to open her own store. >> thank you. >> she was taking home the perfect outfit for her. but the best find would be the perfect family to love her. barbara harrison, news4 for wednesday's child. >> well if you have room in your home and your heart for jasmine or another child who's waiting, call our special adoption hotline. 188-to adopt me or search on nbcwashington.com. coming up a secret sight in northern virginia.

dating back to the cuban missile crisis. >> this is very very interesting. guess what? it is still being used by the government. the i-team reveals what happened inside. let's look out the window. the rain has stopped and sunny skies are replacing yesterda

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today." >> the i-team investigation for decades a massive government facility has operated atop mount lanier. >> rumors of bunkers and fallout shelters have swirled. and now the i-team's scott macfarlane sheds some light on what happens inside mysterious mt. weather. >> lunch hour at berryville grill which sits near one of the few stop lights in town. >> it slows down. >> reporter: but what hasn't slowed down, whispers about the top secret facility just up the road. known as mt. weather. >> i don't think anybody really knows what happens there. >> reporter: christy mccrayville runs the toy store. it's a mystery. >> yes. >> reporter: a mystery that the i team set out to solve. it seems like we drove into the clouds.

you can see it's massive with huge vents locked beneath vents and street signs make it clear we're not allowed to stop the car. the federal emergency management agency operates mt. weather. they wouldn't speak by phone even off the road about what happens here. but the i-team discovered the story behind mount weather goes back decades. to october 1962, the cuban missile crisis. jack rosenthal was one of the few who knows because he's been inside. >> this was potentially the most serious thing ever. >> reporter: rosenthal then a top aide to robert f. kennedy was taken on a ride to the steel door drive to mt. weather. into the bunker. >> inside the bowles of the mountain. >> reporter: which he said held 2,000 of the most important people in the kennedy administration. jfk included. in days of nuclear war. >> this was the master relocation site of government. >> reporter: he said he was set to prepare the space in case the press corps needed to be shelter i felt very privileged to had such a perspective on it.

>> reporter: decades old records declassified and released to the i-team confirmed mt. weather was indeed set up then to protect top officials from war time hazards and attacks and to run the government after a disaster. even after the cuban missile crisis, mt. weather's existence remained a mystery in america until december 1, 1974. when something very dramatic happened there. the twa flight 514 never cleared mount weaommercial plane crashed outside the gate. >> 20 miles north of dulles, the jet hit a mountainside. >> reporter: more than 90 people died. at first the feds tried to keep the reporters away. >> cameramen were not allowed there for many hours. >> reporter: part of the mystery revealed nationwide. >> secret military installation that houses the bombshell shelter. >> reporter: fema took over in 1989 and rumors swirled.

one secret the i-team cracked. april 7, 2015. >> a low voltage -- >> reporter: the day of a massive power failure in the d.c. region. internal government e-mails showed that the department of homeland security activated mount weather when the power failed. shifting the national operations center, the 24/7 war room of monitoring security threats to the mountain. the e-mail said mt. weather is the alternate site for the war room. mt. weather also operates around the clock with four teams preparing for potential catastrophes including solar storms. we have learned there are bunk beds, a waste water treatment facility inside. full-time police and fire departments too which even help loudoun county battle fires off the grounds including at this home in february. not far from that toy store. >> i know it's been a really good employer for a lot of local people. >> reporter: clarke county records show mt. weather is one of the biggest employers but

even the county leaders can't say how many work there. >> it's like an 800 pound gorilla up on the mountain. >> reporter: so far, so good. scott macfarlane, news4 i-team. >> also homeland, isn't it? so secretive. >> so fascinating. >> mt. weather, the only more interesting mountain would be mount washington in washington. >> i thought you sat on mt. weather. >> i thought so too. i don't have that kind of clearance. they would never let someone in the media up there. >> well, things are definitely looking better today. >> yes. >> so much better. the complete opposite of yesterday. finally, the rains have come to an end and 99% rain free forecast going forward for today. the only 1% chance would be up right along the maryland/pennsylvania border where we could have a five-minute long sprinkle but that's it. it won't rain inside the beltway today. as i mentioned 99% nothing to worry about on your sunday, everybody. sunshine doing its best to get through the skies which are

still partly to at times mostly cloudy. 71 degrees now at national airport. temperatures haven't moved much since i got up early this morning, at 3:00 a.m. the temperature was at 68 degrees at national. southwesterly winds will become more northwesterly later on this afternoon and could be quite gusty to blustery with time. a lot of great pictures coming in. early this morning joel sent this in. the library of congress under a mostly cloudy sky. yesterday was the day to be at the library reading the book. today is an outdoor read the book kind of a day for sure. never a bad idea to read a good book. 66 in charleston, west virginia. 75 in fredericksburg. 72 in manassas and 71 in culpepper. hourly temperatures climb up to 80 degrees by 4:00 this afternoon. most of the suburbs stay in the mid to upper 70s. 74 in gaithersburg today. 76 in leesburg.

about 79 in easton out on the cambridge and on the eastern shore. most important thing to do today is get the grill out and enjoy a little cooking in the backyard. temperatures at 80 by 4:00. 77 by 8:00 tonight. sun's not down until 8:37. do that backyard barbecue all the way to 8:30. rain chances no real big chance for rain today. no chance at all for rain tomorrow. but rain chances start to sneak back up towards tuesday, wednesday, especially thursday this week. and then luckily drying back out as we head towards the fourth of july. radar this morning, big area of storminess across northern new york and new england. if you're traveling to new york or boston you'll run into delays that way. but around here, still a little bit of high water on the monocacy river in frederick county and high water in upper marlboro. future weather mostly dry around town again.

the only chance of sprinkle is along the mason-dixon line. and clear skies, a mild to almost cool start by tomorrow morning. tomorrow, plenty of sunshine back in the picture. a chance to get outside and enjoy and more importantly a chance to start drying things out a bit. today and tomorrow we'll be dry. chances for rang back into the picture today and wednesday and thursday. but that's irrelevant as long as we can get the weather better by the fourth of july fireworks. a saturday fourth of july this year. so the press sure is on. so much so that i'll be off. >> hey, that makes two of us. >> looks good for now. well you heard of staycations where you stay at home and vacation. well, why not more employees are opting for workcations. well, one inmate came close to being executed twice for a crime that he did not commit. now he's a free man. why he is choosing to work for

you're watching "news4 today." >> all right. this is an interesting one, if you're worried about using your vacation days this year, the "wall street journal" said workcations are getting more popular. you go somewhere like you're on vacation, but you're working on e-mail, phoning in to conference calls those kind of things. while a workcation can be a good

way to travel, you don't want to be tied to your job while you're away. now, listen if they're sending you the hawaii not a bad thing. >> that's what people are saying. there's something that is inspiring about that when i have a story i don't have to finish that day, i will literally go to the coffee shop. because you can think a little clearer when you change up the environment. kind of relax. >> if your toes are in the sand -- >> well, i don't know. then we might have a problem. >> yeah. well, this next story is pretty fascinating. it's fascinating for a man who spent years on death row, convicted of a crime that it turns out he never committed. after spending half of his life behind bars, anthony graves is now a free man. but it's what he's doing now that's so unexpected. >> he's working for the system that worked against him for so long. here's nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: anthony graves' appointment to the board overseeing the houston crime lab makes absolute sense to him. >> i became a criminal justice expert through my own

experiences. my university's dru -- that's death row university. i'm well qualified. >> reporter: graves was convict convicted for a crime he never committed in the murders of a woman, her daughter and four grandchildren at a home in texas. he was sentenced to die and spent more than 18 years in prison. 12 on death row. >> i had two execution dates. i saw 350 men get executed around me. >> reporter: the man convikted with graves confessed he committed the murders alone, right before he was executed. but it took another ten years for graves' conviction to be overturned and to be release. the prosecutor was disbarred. >> for the first few moments, few hours, i thought that i'd wake up and be right back in the cell. i just -- it wasn't real to me. >> reporter: in the year since then, graves had advocated for better prison systems and

reforms in the criminal justice system. >> i watched the system fail me from top to bottom. >> reporter: he'll help watch over the forensics center which helps police analyze firearms fingerprints, crime scenes and computer data. former board member nicole who fought for his release from prison says he'll add another important perspective. >> anthony was convicted because the truth was not achieved. so he understands the importance of always looking for truth and being mindful of our mission. >> reporter: graves says that despite nearly two decades behind bars he is not bitter and will serve the people. >> i'm just making sure that the is are dotted, and ts are crossed. >> reporter: a new mission for a man who endured unfairness. mark potter, nbc news. >> wow. well coming up things are so much better outside. the forecast has done a complete

180. >> we are loving it. soaking it up. today is great day to do all the things that you want to outside. when the winds will pick up and what you will see rain for your fourth of july forecast. dry out, but the water is still running in upper marlboro. two people are critically hurt in a flooded basement have died. hear what rescue teams have