tens of thousands stood today on the capital grounds as the state police honor guard lowered the confederate flag for good. nbc's jay gray is in columbia now with the story that has been the focus of so much debate. jay? >> reporter: hello there as you talk about thousands packed into the capital grounds here many called this morning's ceremony important, emotional, it was moving for a lot of those here. things starting to get back to normal at this point many who were here will tell you after this morning, nothing in south carolina will ever be quite the same. a roar of approval as the confederate flag is lowered for the last time outside the south carolina state house. >> it's a very special day for me, a very special day for all south carolinians. and many of us fought for years and years to bring the flag down.

>> reporter: there's a certain irony after what for many had been a long and difficult fight. >> i don't want this to go away quickly. i want people to remember what today feels like. >> reporter: there is heartache that comes with the history here, many remembering the nine people murdered inside charleston church, the alleged gunman, a self-proclaimed white supremacist. >> the nine who died in charleston are being honored. those who fought during the civil rights movement are being honored. >> reporter: still, some here argue pulling down the banner dishonors the heritage of the state. >> taking it off the pole, sticking it in a museum putting it in a museum isn't going to open a dialogue. >> reporter: today's any indication, a dialogue will continue, even though the flag's gone. >> you're a heart. you're a hater. >> thank you. thank you. >> reporter: but for most of the thousands gathered here, this day was about hope, not hate. >> we can be united. we can live in this country together.

it's not a black/white issue, it is a united states of america issue. >> reporter: a place that has its own flag. just a few hours after the confederate flag came down, crews came down, took down the pole as well as the wrought iron fence that had surrounded it. nothing left on these capital grounds. the latest live here in columbia, south carolina. i'm jay gray news4. >> jay, thank you. joining us now, chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press" on nbc. been a long time coming, a lot ofag coming down in south carolina. but this isn't the end of this. >> no but still a stunning, symbolic moment. i mean, feels as if we have gotten a epitaph here and the confederate flag, here we are, july 9th you know, 2015. >> putting a period on the sentence. >> mississippi, still flag debates in mississippi, perhaps in georgia, uses an old confederate flag as its model. question, where do we go from here? i'm going to have governor hailly on the show on sunday. it is like, okay, a lot of a am leaders in south carolina are

impressed with the symbolic leadership she had on this. more inroads, compromise she made? she said things like that. and i think that will tell us what phase two is of this relationship between the southern republicans and african-americans. >> you know, the fbi announced today, as you are aware dylann roof, the man who is charged with the church massacre purchased his gun illegally. so with the flag down does the debate now move to guns and illegal purchases background checks, so forth? >> it is interesting. i have gotten multiple release already from the various senators that you have ones saying, the laws were there we just had poor enforcement and poor implementation. clearly there was something went wrong here but then others, chuck schumer the release,

three-day background checks aren't enough time, because that's one of the implications here is that his arrest record just didn't have enough time to get into the system. and so while the system, if it were functioning perfectly, would have gotten it it didn't. how do you account for that should be a longer lag time on that? maybe that perk late. i'm skeptical. usually, we see these gun control debates fizzle. >> flares up and then dies down pretty quickly. the other big story, talking about it non-stop it seems feels like donald trump and his comments about immigrants. >> going to be in arizona tomorrow. celebrating again almost when he is here. the republican party here is trying to walk this title rope of condemning trump without insulting the people that's getting to rally to his cause. not there yet. have an interesting way of showing -- i think the biggest vulnerability for trump going forward, what republicans hope ends up pushing him out of this thing, when people find out were

he used to stand on a bunch of issues. this wasn't always a conservative republican. this is a gay basically comes across as whatever the hot -- whatever the right answer was in the moment, he took. and that's really what he has been about. we will have an extensive look at donald trump in his own words. >> a busy sunday. >> a busy sunday. opm cyber insecurity, i think all americans feel. forget the government, but everything that happened this week. >> chuck todd a lot to cover this sunday on "meet the press." don't miss it this sunday at 10:30. also watch the show on your smartphone or your tablet using the nbc washington app. just click watch live tv now. >> as chuck mentioned first came the hack. today came the sack. the director of the office of personnel management is out of a job one day after 21 million americans learned they need to scramble to protect their personal information. steve handelsman now live on capitol hill with the latest developments today. steve? >> reporter: jim the white house again today refused to

point the finger for this at the chinese but up here on the hill, fingers were pointed by a lot of republicans by virginia democratic senator mark warner, fingers pointed at the office of personnel management, that tomorrow, bell have a rks will have a new boss the head of opm fought to save her job but director katherine archuleta sent her resignation to the white house today. >> the challenges facing the office of personnel management require a manager with a certain set of skills and experiences. >> reporter: deputy director beth cobert takes over with republicans warning of more problems. >> they are still feeding the beast. beast. i'm wore riched frank lyried.

didn't surprise me. it didn't. >> reporter: 25.1 million had their data breached, federal employees, job applicants and family members filled out a form sf-86 so a loved one could get government clearance. even the fbi director's family. >> i got siblings, i got five kids, i got all of that is in there. >> reporter: stolen are social security numbers, finger prints health records and financial histories. if the chinese has them that helps recruit industrial spice. >> probably compromised individuals, tell maybe under financial pressure and put a little bit more pressure on them in order to turn them. >> reporter: job one now to close the barn door. while security teams rush to set up intries alrms and fire wall opm is using paper for some forms. if you think you may be one of the millions who are affected, check out our nbc washington app.

police say an officer that was in an accident is okay, the officer is still in the hospital there were two people in the other car. the driver was taken to the hospital with some injuries. the passenger was not hurt. we have just received a statement from the independent houlton arms school in bethesda following the arrest of one of its camp counselors. an 11-year-old girl says john luis valenzuela touched her inappropriately last week. he taught magic classes at the summer camp. the school is cooperating with the investigation an also that it does comprehensive background checks on its summer counselors. big break in a high-profile robbery. spotsylvania authorities are working to extra date kyte a man from sex z -- to extradite a man on

charges. this is video after a store clerk and mother of three was shot in the face. julie carey has more on the man in custody. >> reporter: this was kelly wood's message when she spoke to me right after she was released from the hospital last year, a feeding tube still taped to her face. >> i want him caught. and i want him in jail. >> reporter: today, after 16 months she got her wish. 33-year-old derek sprouse has been indicted for shooting her last year. the spotsylvania county man is already in jail in north carolina where he is charged with a more recent armed robbery. months she got her wish. in spotsylvania court records, two years ago, he pleaded guilty to abusing his stepdaughter but only served six months in jail. investigators say they can't reveal how they linked spouse to the fast mart shooting. the sheriff says the atf and fbi helped with the top-priority case.

>> the victim in this case has -- she has never given up hope and she is a very strong lady. >> reporter: this fast mart customer, who knows kelly, was happy to get the good news about an indictment. >> i'm way more comfortable now knowing he is behind bars. a good thing. >> reporter: kelly wood and her husband said in a statement -- . kelly wood still experiences daily pain from her injuries but she is back working only not at this fast mart helping to support her family. in spotsylvania, julie carey news4. former virginia governor bob mcdonnell is reviewing his legal options tonight after a major defeat in court a federal court today rejected all of mcdonnell's arguments for an appeal on his public corruption convictions. we went through the 90 pages of the ruling and it was bad news for the former governor, all of it.

mcdonnell was sentenced to two years in prison after he was found guilty for doing favors for a former ceo in exchange for gifts and loans. now to the weather. the sun is out, folks, but changes are coming overnight. and it could affect your weekend. let's go straight to doug in storm center four. doug? >> plenty of sunshine out there now, really a beautiful day but overnight, we are going to see the rain move in. look at the radar. one thing that we do see, nothing around our immediate region. however, if you're down toward spotsylvania county, fredericksburg, more clouds quo, have thunderstorm activity there, south of fredericksburg, around richmond heavy storms, back toward the best, look what's coming our way. we have the rain. if you are going out tonight, i think you're okay. going to be dining outdoors. but tomorrow, well we will talk about that forecast. rain overnight weekend forecast coming up. and the next chance for strong to potentially severe storms, i will show you when that moves in as well. >> thank you, doug. still ahead, paying the price after local police stepped in to help. tonight, theism-team reveals just how much money was spent keeping baltimore safe during

the riots. a spike in violent crimes linked to synthetic drugs. all new at 6:00 tonight the challenge for federal officials trying to stop the growing problem. plus jose andres stands up to donald trump. tonight he opens up about the reason he refused to do business

there is a significant new effort under way to crackdown on synthetic drugs. police see an own cries in crimes in the district, including one case where a woman ditched a baby on the sidewalk. but mark seagraves tells us why police are finding it so hard to prosecute those caught selling the drugs. >> reporter: scooby snax k 2, bizzaro, all street names for synthetic marijuana. >> let me be clear, i don't want anybody to be fooled. these chemicals are nothing like marijuana. and they can lead to terrible consequences, including seizures, suicidal behavior violence criminal behavior and even death. >> reporter: district leaders took a major step today in the battle against synthetic drugs which over the past few years have been sold primarily under the counter in small stores a new law allows police to close a store caught selling the drugs and fine that store 10 to $20,000. but bringing criminal charges

against individuals is much harder because there is no field test for the new drugs and they are constantly changing. d.c. police rely on the feds to do their testing. >> the de a has told us that they will be able to do that kind of testing but it doesn't happen as quickly as we would like. >> reporter: police officials were unable to say when faster testing would be available, but they did say until the testing is done, the u.s. attorney won't prosecute those who they arrest. >> that substance will have to be tested to determine -- to bring prosecution for criminal charges on what that substance is. so there is a delay in the time we can go forward with prosecution. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the u.s. attorney's office tells me they are, in fact prosecuting a handful of criminal cases right now, but he says it is difficult because of the changing nature of the drug and the lack of field testing. in the district, mark seagraves, news4. >> for those not familiar with the synthetic drugs they are typically a dry shredded plant

material with chemical additives that can have psychoeffective results. it is usually labeled not for human consumption. in our nbc washington app, read more about the dangerous side effects from using these synthetic drugs. a man who ran down a police officer with his car in d.c. could spend the next three decades in prison. a jury yesterday found kevin bruno guilty of multiple assault charges in a crash that seriously injured motorcyclist sean hickman. officer hickman has undergone more than 15 surgeries since he was hit 2013. he is now back at work but he does not have full mobility and he can no longer perform patrol duties. bruno is to be sentenced later this fall. a spike in scams targeting hairdressers, local dentist and restaurants among others, the scammers threaten to be dominion employees. they threaten to cut the power off if they don't pay and the

caller i.d. says they are virginia power. the company says it is a scam. >> we are pulling out all stops to let people know that dominion never calls a customer and demands a payment on thespot. >> the company tells us there's been a spike in the past two days, 65 reported incidents. at least eight customers fell for the scam. virginia's attorney general is working with dominion virginia power to investigate now. well, what day we have had today, doug. that was a very fresh breeze blowing thought this morning and continued through the day. we did need it >> we deserve it, too. >> we earned it. >> we needed a day with low humidity sunshine and no rain. and that's exactly what we saw on our friday. tonight moving in i think most of tomorrow is looking okay. don't let that rain out there ruin your forecast period. as we look out toward national harbor, look at that, plenty of blue skies. just beautiful conditions, nice place to be this weekend, down

toward national harbor, nice place to be the national mall, out and about taking a look at the city 87 degrees, winds out of the north 8 miles per hour, that northerly wind helping bring down the dew point, bringing down the humidity not bad out there at all. nice conditions, 80, martins martinsburg, 85 down toward the fredericksburg area. as far as the radar is concerned, there are some storms down to the south, around the fredericksburg area spotsylvania county, parts of i-95. back to the west though, we are watching more showers and more clouds moving in. take a look at the clouds moving in. look at this set of storms making its way in faster here. if you have plans to be out overnight, you may see some of those by early tomorrow morning but most of lust stay dry. take a look at future weather. cloud cover here, 8:00 tonight, we will start to see more clouds, by 111:00, look, we are still dry, no problems, if you are heading out tonight, i think you're going to be a-okay. overnight, 5 a.m., notice the rain moving on in most of this on the lighter side, could you see some heavier areas of rain, by 9:00, down to the south and starting to get out of here.

by 3, got plenty of sunshine in most location and i think a pretty nice saturday afternoon, so, if you have plans on saturday, if you're going to be outdoors, watch out for the rain early. again, 7 a.m. playing some tennis, jim hanley, 7 a.m., 71 there, shower activity there maybe around 73. at 9 a.m., some wet residual courts, if you're going to be out there by 11:00, we start to break out, a very nice, dry afternoon going to be outside. heading out toward the nats game, they take on the orioles up there toward camden yards, looking really good for this the next couple of days, saturday great 82le 80 -- 82 for the game. 80 on your saturday sunday, hot, temperature around 90 degrees. the 1:35 game, maybe in the sunshine, the one that's on the hot side for sure. both tonight and saturday night's game looking good. heading down towards the beaches the next few days, also looking good, of course today quite nice 87, but a little bit cool they are weekend, we move on through temperatures could be in the 70s.

80s there, maybe in the 70s, more of a northeasterly wind. 85 on your saturday, 90 on sunday. 89 on monday. some dry days here. but then tuesday looks like a good chance for some strong potentially severe storms. look at that high. high temperature of 94 on tuesday. so we get hot and rather stormy in the afternoon. we will be watching it all for you. once again, tomorrow don't worry about the early rain. >> thank you doug. demolition day at the white flint mall. a look at the changes and the one thing that will stay the same during all this construction. i'm jackie bensen. hear the chef at the center of the trump controversy bring a crowd with tears with his thoughts of what it means to be an american xbroochl stronger new warning labels for

the big demolition project at the white flint mall is under way today. crews started tearing down the old parking garages this week. the montgomery mall has been empty most of the year and part of the inside has already been torn down. the owners are redeveloping the site into a town center. the only thing that won't change the lord & taylor department store here and it's still open. new information tonight about the issues that have derailed d.c.'s streetcar project. according to the "washington post" the city did not install underground heaters, which means critical switches can freeze

from snow and ice. an independent review found the heaters were cut to save money. the report released yesterday details dozens of problems that must be fixed before the cars can run on h street and benning road northeast. there is still no firm date on when the streetcars will start running. there is a new warning from federal health officials about over-the-counter and prescription painkillers. the food and drug administration says the drugs known as nsaids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. and the warning labels will be changed to make that more clear. ibuprofen and naproxen medications are included in the warning. many are wondering if they should take these medications at all. >> the risk is small for taking a pill for an individual for a short period of time, but these drugs in suched by use that the risk for the population becomes quite large important that everison attentive to this and take these drugs only if you need them. >> experts recommend taking the

smallest dose needed for as short a time as possible. #

two months after the riot stemming from the death of freddy gray, there is a new problem for baltimore. the bills are coming due, including ones from local police departments across the state who rushed in to help. >> a review by scott macfarlane and the news4 i-team reveals the extra manpower wasn't cheap and for now it's unclear who is going to pay for the millions of dollars. >> reporter: just before they headed to the chaos, they took a

group photo. >> all the officers volunteered for the assignment. >> reporter: about 30 city of frederick police officers said they were proud to rush down i-70 to help baltimore. >> didn't have to ask twice. put it that way. >> reporter: they receive this e-mail from maryland state police a call for help, when riots consumed baltimore in april. >> one point in time, there was well over 5,000 officers and 2,000 national guard in one city in maryland is tremendous. >> reporter: other officers responded, too from prince george's county, montgomery county, even pennsylvania and new jersey state police. >> two blocks north of us. >> right near your house? >> right near our house. >> reporter: doc cheatham says the officers helped save his block. >> wasn't like we were cheering they were there, but at the same time in our heart we knew these people were here the soldiers here, other police officers here. >> reporter: two months after the riot, the bills are coming due. records filed with state emergency management officials obtained by theism-team show it

cost half a million dollars for the overtime pay for officers from one local police agency anne arundel. a quarter million more for howard county's police. nearly $300000 for montgomery county. a half million for pennsylvania state police. and those city of frederick officers, they cost about $40,000. >> you can't just swallow that cost? >> no, sir. >> nor can the other police agencies that help. combined, theism-team found more than 1.6 million in bills submitted to baltimore by outside local police departments with potentially millions of dollars more to come. the state of maryland wanted the feds to help pick up the tab but they were just rejected a city of baltimore spokesperson tells us the city for now, will have to wipe out its rainy day fund to pay the cost with no firm plans on how to replenish. >> bill's gonna come due. our city is suffering now, i am heaping as a life-long resident here it is not baltimore say that is going to have to pay for it. >> reporter: this was the cvs looted during the unrest in april, still with boarded up

windows. the police bills are only some of the bills the government has to pay for the damage from april. there is still so much to repair and transcends this immediate area, goes far beyond. the i-team learns that includes medical fwoirms 200 injured city police officers repairs to damaged city property, whose overtime pay for public works crews and we saw the trash still piling up for the crews near a carry out restaurant burned in the riot. >> there is no way that a city can really handle this kind of an expense knowing that baltimore city is suffering financially anyway. # >> the state is asking the feds to declare it a disaster area so they can pay back the mounting bills. >> howl is it going to take before they know what is going to happen with that? >> confident they will get some help. no matter what happens the local police departments will be reimbursed. no sense the timetable yet.

>> a lot of money. >> and a lot of manpower. >> that money was for manpower. to see the bills and the invoices themselves and exactly what police are charging baltimore for, go to nbcwashington.com and you can search investigations. new charges against a fairfax county man already accused of impersonating a police officer once before. sharif ahmad, there he is now charged with abduction by force, attempted robbery and use of a firearm in a felony after an incident on tuesday. he is being held now in the fairfax county jail without bail. back in february, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer in prince william county. he was trying to pull over cars on i-66 using flashing lights on his chevy impala. progress tonight for one of the men injured in a cycling crash at the world police and fair games.

officer darryl hes isighs is back with his family. the officer darryl is now back home in winnipeg, canada, after being released from fairfax county. fairfax county fire and rescue moved him and his -- to his family members. they say he is in good spirits and walk around. he is one of two men hurt in last week's crash. a third man, who is an officer from brazil, died in the race. assisted sue sides are allowed in five states and a lot of debate whether the district should be next. zachary kiesch has more now on one woman's personal story. >> the only thing it really gives me any comfort is to know that when the time comes when i'm toward dying and suffering so much that i can then choose a more kinder, compassionate death. >> reporter: the right to die is about options but at its core, it's about people, people like susan farris. >> i actually am in support of it. i have stage four breast cancer. >> reporter: spores say it

allows mentally competent adults who are terminally ill to end their life. 75 people testified today at the wilson building on both sides much the death with dignity act would allow d.c. residents who have two doctors confirm a terminal diagnosis fill a prescription medication to end their lives. samantha crane opposes it. >> we are very concerned that this legislation would put people about disabilities, including people with illnesses that cause disabills in the a much more vulnerable position. >> reporter: jane wood became an advocate for the right to die when her friend was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

a mother of two young children who have been missing since last fall remains incompetent to stand trial on charges related to their disappearance. katherine hoggle has been in a mental facility since her two children, sarah and jacob, vanished while in her custody back in september. and hoggle refuses to tell anyone where they are. she appeared before a judge for another competency hearing today. judge citing the report says hoggle is making progress and could one day be fit for trial. changing at a po popular dining destination in old alexandria. how a jewish immigrant helped transform montgomery county and the major road named in his honors. we are coming right back. we are talking about rain moving in overnight tonight. here it is. right back to the west. show you how the rain could affect your early saturday morning in a minute.

new parking rules for old town alexandria. drivers who park west of alfred

street can pay three hours instead of two that allows more time for shopping and dining in those neighborhoods. drivers still have to pay to park until 9 p.m. there are no parking gar flashes their yand a only one offstreet lot where more than two hours. the city worked with businesses and commune leaders to come up with the change. it is one of the shortest interstates in the country named for a man who was never even supposed to be in washington. he is credited with developing much of montgomery county in this edition of meet your street, melissa mow molette introduces us to the man i-375 is named after. >> as the story goes, he wanted to be a cowboy. >> reporter: a wannabe cowboy, sam eig came to the united states with the intention of moving to nebraska to wrangle horses but his first stop was washington, d.c. to make some money. >> he got off the train and never got back on. >> reporter: now i-370 in gaithersburg is named for keith's grandfather, who started working in washington as a

butcher to save money later opening a few grows there is never took off. >> failed more than he succeeded. >> reporter: but eig didn't let failure bother him. he started investing in liquor, aging alcohol during prohibition, eventually he had the best stuff in town. >> when repeal came, he had good booze to sell and no one else did. >> reporter: eig poured those proceeds into real estate, silver spring, chevy chase. >> all the houses were built by him. >> reporter: today, a school named after his development. >> he made sure if he was developing, they had a church need synagogue need boys club. >> reporter: he rented one of the homes to a man named ben leerson, became ceo of ibm and through his friendship with sam later brought his company to montgomery county. at one point, eig had his eye on the corner of colesville road and georgia avenue. >> there were apple orchard there is and he wanted to buy the land. >> reporter: he got a land and bought that concern n 1951 on another plot of land, he put up

a modern office building baring his name. >> the tallest building in montgomery county four stories. >> reporter: it would soon be filled with doctors and lawyers. >> very high-tech floor plan. you can see all the creativity going into this. >> reporter: 1960s, eig transformed this sbaetd of land known as rio now into the washingtonian country club a golf course restaurant, hotel and the towers apartments. >> and there was about two or three years after my grandfather passed away that they were approached by montgomery county to ask for our feelings about using his name on a highway and he used to tell me there will be a highway here, 12 lanes. >> reporter: how right he was. not only did sam eig have this vision but he had the passion, the desire and the smarts and quite the heart. >> i said, grandpa, do you ever say no he said, no i may get up there, they will say did you ever give that little church in germantown and i need to be able to say yes. >> that's how he was? >> that's how he was. >> reporter: melissa mollet, news4. >> now we know. still ahead, not politics,

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about the controversy that forced him to pull his restaurant from the new trump hotel in downtown d.c. jackie bensen has the story. >> reporter: to many, pulling out of the trump hotel project elevated jose andres from super chef to hero chef. in an interview with news4 chef jose andres indicated he is not likely to reconsider his decision to pull out from a deal to run a landmark restaurant at the new trump hotel under construction in d.c. >> this has been led by ivanka trump and donald trump jr. and quite frankly, they are two of the most unique people you can work. they are really great people and i only wish them the best. >> reporter: this afternoon, he received a standing ovation from the group gathered to honor the graduates from the training program. some come after being in the court system others need a hand up much the central kitchen's main mission is to feed the needy. andres has been known to show up there to peel potatoes ben bad weather kept others away.

his stance against donald trump's comes on immigrants struck a chord here. >> thank you for your stance on the trump hotel. i really appreciate that, too. right? [ applause ] >> reporter: andres has been quoted as saying he walked away from trump out of respect for his employees and his own status as a new u.s. citizen. the chef's emotional powerful graduation speech spoke volumes. >> more often than not, seems that we forgot that if we believe in the power, the message that our founding father also when they began we the people, why what lately seems late lately only wet politics. every person should be gaining the respect of the person next to it. if we don't have respect, we have nothing. >> reporter: at today's graduation ceremony, andres was hon weird honored with his own diploma. he said he had never received one before. a dining room typically used to host foreign leaders was packed with some young chefs

today. 55 young chefs from around the nation were at the white house today for the first lady's annual kids state dinner. the kids created winning recipes, healthy, delicious, low-cost recipes. 8-year-old timothy burke from d.c. prepared vegetable confetti spring rolls. >> i thought it was challenging and i like challenges. >> you guys are setting a great example for all your friends. >> timothy likes a challenge. try his spring rolls at home a link to the recipe on our website. >> they sound good. the panda pregnancy watch at the national zoo will continue a little longer after today's ultrasound. it came back inconclusive. the second ultrasound was performed this morning. the zookeepers tried to artificially impregnate her this spring and a few more months before the possibility of a cub is ruled out.

could take a few morement -- few more months. this would be the third cub. i think they need to leave the poor panda alone. >> she is hungry there. we don't know how old that footage is. >> stop testing the poor thing. let it happen. doug's not worried about a little bit of rain tomorrow. you're not changing your plans, are you? >> no, my daughter's birthday party is going on. it is a water slide party in the backyard. i think we are looking okay for our saturday. we have a party plan at 6 a.m. well that maybe little bit of a problem, but i don't think there was too many of those. look outside, our rockville camera today. beautiful picture, really probably the best day we have seen in a while, just plenty of blue skies. temperatures not too hospital. 87 light humidity. no problems there 85 by 7:00, 82 by 49. dropping to 77 by 11:00. temperature-wise, 81 leesburg,

81 gaithersburg, 83 camp spring, nice everywhere on your friday night. you want one night to be good, probably friday evening maybe saturday evening. right now, i think both looking good. no rain around our region right now, but just look to the south big-time storms down in southern virginia and look at what's coming our way. this is rain making its way in here, some of our western viewing area back towards the shenandoah valley by 9:00. ing to keep a heads up at. there could be heavy rain overnight. it would be overnight. heavy rapes end early toward the mountains. also an area, shenandoah county page county, a flash flood watch in affect for these areas, see one to two inches of rain. 84 in lore ray 83 shenandoah. here, i expect plenty of sunshine tomorrow afternoon. northern virginia, morning rain but then breaking out into the sun by noontime. most of tomorrow looking good, a hive 85, quantico 85 leesburg and 80 fredericksburg. southern maryland, a little bit of a different story here the farther south and east you are the better chance you have for scattered afternoon showers

swim. sometime going to see the morning rain, most likely ending by 9:00. most of the afternoon okay, a few more clouds down towards this area one thing to watch out for. heading to the pool tomorrow no worries, 81 to 86 good by afternoon. again 5:00, 6:00 time to go to the pool, maybe not in the a.m., but 5 p.m., perfect. 85 on your saturday, 90 on sunday, 89 on monday all looking pretty good with fairly low humidity. humidity, way up there on tuesday. look at those numbers 94 good chance of not just strong but possibly severe weather. that's something we will continue to watch. >> cancel my 5 a.m. swim now. >> yeah. right. i don't think -- i don't knowby pool is open at 5 or 6 a.m. actually. >> thank you. in sports the battle of the beltways getting under way in just minute folks. what we should be looking for in this year's series between the nats and the o's. first, here is a lester holdatherttatherster holdatherster holdatherster hold with what is coming up on "nbc

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battle of the beltway is in just a matter of minutes now, dave. >> hall of fame broadcaster said ate the beer cold. if you're in a suite, ate the wine chilled or something like that. the series between the nationals and orioles has been dubbed, as we new york the battle of the beltway, even though a parkway that connects washington. also kecked by competition. both teams are in good positions head into the weekend series at camden yards only adding to what is still developing rivalry. >> home of good baseball these past few years, talked to the guys haven't played in the series before, the nats, a playoff series, going to be loud, full.

game sevens usually meant bad newsed for the capitals but now a veteran who might change that. justin williams a free agent from the kings, has skated in six of those clutch games. and scored in five of them. >> game sevens are just -- there are little plays here and there that make differences, just minuscule things that add up to the end result. the end result you see goal but things that lead up to it are just as important and, you know this team is close and i just -- i want to do what i can to help. over at wimbledon, if i hadfederer

and murray. pick it up in the second. roger bottom of your screen looking terrific, then catches murray going the other way. federer would take the first two set, 7-5 7-5. match point for federer. murray serving the bottom of your screen you might call him the hometown favorite. hits it out. federer wins in straight sets, goes for his eighth winning title on sunday. bring it back to the united states. this was terrific. a hero's welcome for the world cup champs. a ticker tape parade for the women's national team. megan rapino. have of the selfie stick. bill de blasio and his wife. northern virginia's ali krieger representing front and center expected to be back with our team, the washington spirit next week. ended at city hall with a ceremony and rally. back to baseball. gio gonzalez on the mound for the nats gives up one run last 14 innings, secret weapon might

be his facial hair. his beard is sponsored by a men's grooming company. >> you're kidding. >> how exactly does that conversation begin? >> caught me by surprise it was something like i'm sorry, you want to sponsor by beard? and knowing that there's jayson werth guys with bigger beards than mine i guess mine has some magic to ithm or something like d) iv%s76k!ó&j%ol that. might be some -- some i don't know, birds or something flying out of it, some aura to it. i think that's were it got its attention. ever since then, they honored me with a certificate with being the first sponsored beard in baseball. >> i don't care what the stock market says. we are in good shape as a country when there is money to sponsor beards. >> have to get that insured now? >> somebody does that even better shape. good times are coming for us. >> i would be insulted if i were jayson werth. major beard. >> working on that for ages. >> can't afford him.

too much. >> all right, thank you, dave. that's going to do it for us. nightly news up next. >> see you at 11:00. have a good evening.

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