north. look at the wider view here. we have a stream of moisture coming off the atlantic. this is going to come in, even rumbles of thunder here and there. more heavy rain likely. that's why we have a flash flood watch as that's been issued. areas like hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester, look at the flash flood warnings, areas in red here including the paige county area until 7:30. 2 to 4 inches of rain possible in those locations. in the city, about 1 inch. maybe a little bit more. ponding on the roads, avoid areas of high water. again, we're just getting started. tonight is round one. round two coming over the next couple of days. roads are going to be a big issue both times. >> yeah, for sure. rain has overspread the area. it's not until late, though, most of the metro area will get that heavy rain. here's the way it's looking between 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. the heavy rainbetween 5:00 and p.m. keep that in mind if you have plans to be out. we're just getting started. we have this event, this first one up until 11:00 p.m. it gets breezy after that.

tomorrow we're going to be left with breezy warm conditions, still a few showers left coming through the area, but, again, this is just round one. we have more to come for the end of the week and the weekend. >> yeah, we're talking about a nor'easter comining up on frida and saturday without tropical storm joaquin making its way our way. some models taking it out to sea. either way, we're going to tap some moisture. if joaquin is able to move closer to the coach, come into our region, we're talking about a much bigger storm. this is something we're going to continue to track over the next couple days. again, wendy, we're going from feast to famine here. the other way around. from no rain to just a plethora of rain as we move in toward friday and saturday. >> yeah, but the tree in my yard thank you. and the heavy rain is already causing flooding across parts of southern virginia. take a look at what it looked like inside a building inside the campus of liberty university in lynchburg. see the water rising inside the halls. students are are jojoking they

boat to get to class. we're also seeing flooding issues up and down the east coast. take a look here. it is rough going in parts of the florida panhandle where they saw more than a foot of rain yesterday. come in closer, this is the city of destine, florida, an hour outside of pensacola. see cars stalling as several feet of water pooled across a large section of the highway. in other parts, entire parking lots were under water. and in north carolina, check this out. four straight days of rain is being blamed for a retaining wall collapsing. no one was hurt here, but as you can see, the wall crumbled right into a parking lot used by several businesses. this is what it looked like yesterday in boone in the northwestern part of the state. city engineers say that wall will go back up. if you haven't had -- you don't have it already, it's a good time to download our nbc washington app. we've recently upgraded our weather features so you can set alerts for just what you want from a dangerous storm approaching, to when lightning

is flashing. you can get it all even when we are not on the air. we told you about a new plan to have private ambulances transport some patients in the district. well today mayor muriel bowser presented that plan to the council and faced some tough questions. news 4's mark segraves was there and joins us live with details on just how strained first responders have become. mark? >> reporter: well, that's right. the fire chief was by her side and here just a few of the numbers that the chief gave to the d.c. council to show them how strained the system is. on an average day by 9:00 a.m., ambulances are already spread thin across the city. ambulances every day and their crews spend hours waiting at hospitals after they drop off patients before they're allowed to return to duty. and even when they do have ambulances available, when you call 911 you can wait up to 20 minut minutes for that ambulance to

arrive. part of the problem causing ambulance delays in the district, a spike in 911 calls each month. >> in 2011, our call volume was right around 12,000. today it's at 15,000. >> reporter: another problem, a deteriorating fleet of ambulances that are not always in service. >> by 9:00, many mornings what you'll hear is alpha hold which means we've run out of ambulances. >> reporter: and yet another problem is the time ambulances and their crews must wait at hospitals after they drop off a patient. >> where we find ourselves in trouble is that we on an average day spend 177 hours at the hospital. >> reporter: mayor bowser says hiring private ambulances to transport low-priority patients is the answer. >> so we have to buy ourselves some time to repair our vehicles, to respond more timely and very importantly to train our staff. >> reporter: while council members seemed open to the proposal, they have lots of questions. >> we're essentially talking about privatizing a government service. >> i'm not so sure how much

sense that makes. >> reporter: one big question, how much will this cost and will the patients have to pay for the private ambulance service? >> we are going out into the market to negotiate for this service, so we don't know yet. >> reporter: this plan first must be approved by the d.c. council. they'll vote on it next month then it will be put out to bid by different contractors. other big questions that remain out there is whether or not d.c. will actually have to pick up and transport patients in the patients ask to be transported, whether or not the fire department can refuse. at 6:00, hear what the mayor has to say about that as well as the costs of all this. jim, wendy, back to you. >> mark segraves, thank you, mark. they're small, they're cheap and a thief is treating them like currency. a thief is going for laundry pods at a store in our area. pat collins live in rockville with this. wow.

>> reporter: hey, wendy, you remember liquid gold? thieves stealing jugs of tide then taking them out and selling them on the down low? well, now they're targeting tide detergent pods. stealing bag after bag after these detergent pods. and they're carrying knives so when someone goes to stop them, they pull the knife and say back off, back off, back off. but at this safeway in rockville, one of the employees picked up a handful of mangos and channeling his inner stevphn strasburg began throwing the mangos at the thief as he made his getaway and it's all on tape and i've got the tape. coming up on news 4. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you, pat. a northern virginia teacher is on the road to recovery four months after a terrible car accident. we first told you about this story in june. kelly hennessy and her 12-year-old son who has cerebral

palsy were both seriously injured in the crash. kelly just returned home for the first time since the accident. her husband is now playing a big role in her recovery. >> kelly's such a giving, wonderful, loving person, that, you know, aisi'm willing to do whatever it takes to help her get back to where she was. >> wonderful story. hennessy's 12-year-old son is doing better, too, but he's still in rehab trying to get out of a wheelchair. still ahead on news 4 at 5:00 tonight, chris gordon talks with hennessy about her recovery and her next goal. wendy? now at 5:00, team coverage on two big stories across our region. news 4's meagan fitzgerald live in northwest. >> reporter: yeah, that third double shooting in northwest that happened here monday night happened at this apartment complex just behind me here. police say a security guard was shot in the neck. he managed to fire back and detain the suspect. coming up in the next half hour,

hear from the brave eyewitness who called 911. i'll have a live report. adam? hey, we're live along route 7 and tyson's corner tonight. you know, most days when you drive on this road, it is pretty much unbearable. from alexandria through seven corners. on up to falls church. and here into tyson's. it is a tough ride on this road. coming up on news 4 at 5:30, the plans to fix the road. hey, are you ready for a light rail line here? wendy, back to you. well, from ferguson to fairfax county, policing that's turned deadly has law enforcement leaders looking for new ways to do their work. today, virginia's attorney general rolled out a plan for special training. for officers and for deputies across the commonwealth. our bureau chief, julie carey, has details live from the fairfax county criminal justice academy. >> reporter: well, you know when you think of police training you might envision rekrucruits learg

how to use a weapon or take a suspect into custody but there are classes taught about this academy for a intense situation and that's the kind of training attorney general mark herring wants to offer statewide in urban and rural areas. now, after meeting with residents and law enforcement across the commonwealth, mark herring plans to fund what he's calling 21st century policing. starting next spring both recruits and existing officers would get classes aimed at keeping the police and public saf safer. the classes would include deescalation tactics to help avoid use of force, impartial policing to make sure minority residents aren't treated differently. officers would be trained in bias awareness and appropriate use of force. now fairfax county naacp leader was one of the community members that herring consulted for suggestion. she wants those classes to start as soon as possible. >> i so i think there's some things that need to be done and implemented a lot quicker.

you don't have to implement an program at one time. prioritizes the pieces that you need. deescalation is great. all of them need to know how to do that. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 6:00, we'll take you inside the fairfax county police academy where they are doing things a little differently this day. no longer is that deescalation tactic training saved for the end. back to you now. >> julie carey. one metro rider is getting a lot of attention tonight on social media for his response to metro's recent rush hour service change. as of today, orange and silver lines will no longer stop at the stadium-armory station tuduring the morning and evening rush. this guy apparently thought extra notice was needed, so he and his daughter posted their own signs last night. despite the warnings from that rider and metro, itself, we found several on fused commuters this morning at stadium-armory. metro tells uses change will ease congestion at the station. it also comes after last week's

transformer fire that destroyed electrical equipment and reduced power available to the trains. during the peak travel times, metro will have a free bus to take people from stadium-armory to minnesota avenue. for some riders, that's not enough. >> i am now 50 minutes late for work, so got to hurry up and book it. >> and it's really stupid they did this during rush hour, like, they could have done this -- so these trains will work when no one's -- when everyone's at work which doesn't make any sense. >> metro says the change in service is limited to the stadium-armory station but transit officials say tens of thousands will benefit. just in to the live desk we're getting information that may put jesse mathews' life in little bit of context. there's a letter that was written by his former girlfriend, it was just made public, that says matthew was raped when he was a child. a judge unsealed that letter today. the woman who wrote it says she dated matthew from 2003 to 2005.

says he was sexually abused by at least three people during his elementary school years and that one person raped him several times. the woman says she thinks those assaults may have played a role in allegations he raped and killed morgan and hannah. matthew is scheduled to be sentenced for an assault in fairfax county friday. his public defender asked the judge to take matthew's difficult upbringing into account. he's facing life in prison for that attack. a search continues for a man who sexually assaulted a woman in northern virginia. find out where women are being warned to be on alert. plus news 4 was first to tell you about the thousands of students in prince george's county who haven't been vaccinated. now hear from the woman who may have lost her job because of it. and we've got a lot of rain moving in across the area but also tracking the latest advisory, it just came out on tropical storm joaquin and it's much stronger.

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see rain continues to move in. we're just starting to see it move through the d.c. metro area. doug's back in just minutes with his full forecast. now back to the recovery of a special needs teacher from northern virginia. she was critically injured in a

horrible car accident four months ago. doctors weren't sure she would make it. now she's home and talking to now she's home aflw gordon abou rehab and that of her 12-year-old son. >> okay. now we have to step up. can you step up from the wheelchair? >> reporter: kelly hennessy can now climb out of her wheelchair and walk. she left the rehabilitation hospital friday. raising her fist in victory. >> yay. yay. yay. >> reporter: kelly hennessy spent more than four weeks in a coma. four months in the rehabilitation hospital. her ability to walk and speak is improving daily. what is your goal? >> to be happy. to be independent. >> reporter: the accident happened on june 1st when she took her 12-year-old son, carson, for ice cream. a vehicle crashed into them along this busy highway in prince william county. the accident left carson who has cerebral palsy with a badly fractured leg requiring him to

return to the rehabilitation hospital just as his mother was going home. since june, greg powell has spent every waking hour with his son and his wife. >> for the first week or so in june, we didn't know if she was going to survive. and now she's sitting with us at home at our kitchen table. you know, so i don't know if you call that a miracle or what, but we are just overwhelmed with joy that she's home. >> reporter: kelly hennessy teaches students with special needs at centerville high school in clifton, virginia. >> you looki ining forward to t day when you can get back to helping others? >> yes. >> reporter: teaching others? >> yes. >> reporter: ahead, what was the key to kelly's amazing recovery? we'll tell you what the family thinks coming up on news 4 at 6:00. reporting from gainesville, virginia, chris gordon, news 4. tonight police are trying to identify the man who attacked a woman in arlington wearing a suit. it happened along herndon street around 10:00 sunday night in the

clarendon area. the young woman told police she doesn't know who assaulted her, only he's a white man in his 50s, heavy set and was wearing a dark suit and dress shirt. he appears nonchalant and like maany other customer. one robber in maryland has a unique goal in mind. laundry pods. news 4's pat collins shows us the interesting approach one worker used to try to stop the guy. >> reporter: a couple of years ago they were stealing jugs of tide detergent. on the street, they called it liquid gold. now it's tide pods. and this is how the scheme works. the scene, the safeway on randolph road in rockville. take a close look at this guy. he seems like an ordinary shopper. right? he gets a cart. hea down the detergent aisle and then a quick u-turn. and boom. he starts loading the tide

detergent pods into the cart and then wheels his way to the exit. watch now as the store employee uses his best stephen strasburg move to throw mangos at the thief. as he leaves the store. the robber pulls a knife and shouts out, leave me alone, as he makes his getaway. once the thieves make off with the pods, they convert it into cash like that. selling it on the down low. >> hey, buddy, want to score some pods? >> it's almost like currency on the street. they can sell it on the street corner, in different shops sometimes. pawn stores. that kind of thing. >> reporter: it's not traceable. >> no, it's not. there's no way to trace these. >> reporter: it just didn't happen at this safeway in rockville. it happened at the giant in wheaton. there's video of that, too. and i'll have it for you coming up at 6:00.

wendy, back to you. >> pat collins. well, we've seen the scam pop up from time to time and officials in louden county are warning about a jury duty scheme. residents get a call from someone posing as a sheriffs deputy and this fake deputy tells them there's a warrant for their arrest for missing jury duty. but they say you can avoid it by paying a fine. a ry a reminder only a judg assess a fine for missing jury duty and you have to have a hearing first where you could explain your absence. a high school football star dies after an injury on the field and his cause of death has others concerned about when young athletes should be allowed to play. and first responders in d.c. serve our community every day, but even they are having a tough time parking in the city. why some of them are racking up hundreds of dollars in tickets hundreds of dollars in tickets

i was about to head to thecheck. bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. like really rain. [clap of thunder] i did not want to go out. [clap of thunder]

but then i was like duh, just use your phone. mobile-deposit-techno-thingy to the rescue. i'm rayna. and i bank human at td bank. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> oh, rain is coming down and it's falling very heavily in parts of the region right now. it's going to be a very wet night. and really a very wet four to five-day period over the next couple of days we're going to get about a month's worth of rain easily in many locations. take a look. we'll show you where the heavy rain is right now. it has been in toward northern virginia, back toward the blue ridge. the shenandoah valley all afternoon. see it is still raining extremely heavily here.

we still have a flash flood watch in effect for portions of the blue ridge back to the west. couple of flash flood warnings to the south of la ray, but look at the very heavy rain here. now even in the district we're starting to see some of the heavy rain and watch how it's come in over the last couple of hours. see it all streaming in from the south. little bit of an easterly component to that, too. right off of the atlantic. so extremely heavy rain. now even some thunderstorm activity that's developing. let's see if i can zoom in on this, show you where the thunderstorm activity is with the rain of heavy rain from charlottesville, colepepper county, portions of warren county, la ray and warrenton over the next one to two hours. that's the heaviest rain we'll see tonight and it's moving up across the region right now. here it is on future weather about 6:00, there's the heaviest rain i'm talking about around the 6:00 hour. 8:00 coming closer to d.c. 9:00, 10:00, we see the heaviest rain and in around the metro region. it moves out by early tomorrow morning. still some showers early for the morning commute, but tomorrow most of the day is looking on the dry side.

can't rule out a couple of showers but i do think most of your day on wednesday is going to be okay. wednesday may be the best day out of the next four or five. high temperatures in the upper 07s to around 80 degrees again. maybe a little bit of sun. we're going to see lot of clouds tomorrow with an isolated showers and sunshine, too. then we see the rain move back in. tomorrow not too bad. take the umbrella. a few showers. tomorrow will have low impact on your day. thursday, friday, saturday, we're talking a very high-impact event here. month's worth of rain. we could see one or two months' worth of rain around our region. it's all because we have an area of high president obasure that'o move across the northeast. we have the northeasterly flow off the ocean. that's going to mean coastal flooding and beach erosion down toward the beach locations, ocean city, rehoboth. in around the d.c. metro area, what are we going to be seeing? winds upwards of 35 miles per hour. could see 3 to 6 inches of rain. i wouldn't be surprised if some areas actually saw more than

that across the region. again, thursday, friday, and then into the day on saturday. and that has nothing to do with tropical storm joaquin. the storm, itself, is down to the south. and it's really starting to look very healthy now. but it's moving very slowly. so the track still not exact on where this storm is going to go. the latest advise ary up to 65 miles an hour. this should have updated by now but the track did update, expected to become a hurricane and make its way up the coast. this is sunday at 2:00. now, remember, i told you most of the rain would fall friday and saturday. this is not because of joaquin, moves off the coast but some computer models then bring it back in across our region. so that's what we'll continue to watch. but one thing for sure, we are all in for very heavy rain. starting friday and into saturday. high temperatures 80 degrees tomorrow. only 59 degrees coming up on friday with rainy conditions. we're in for a heck of a mess. veronica has more on that including the rest of the seven-day forecast in a few minutes >> you got our pennsylvania,

do attention, doug. new video coming into news 4 of the flooding this storm system has already caused. plus, a new solution for virginia commuters who are stuck in traffic. find out what may have some drivers ditching the car for a better option. >> reporter: a security guard shot in the neck on the steps of this northwest apartment complex manages to fire back and detain the suspect. coming up at 5:00, hear from the brave eye

you're watches news 4 at 5:00. >> the heavy rain hitting during rush hour. you know it's a mess. this is 14th street. the roads are wet. tempers are flaring. we'll have more storm team 4 coverage in this half hour for withdr you. three double shootings in the district in less than five hours that's fueling the uptick of violence in our city. >> one man killed, another injured on easton road in d.c. a now hours later two more were shot and wounded near 46th place. before midnight, a security guard was shot and wounded at an apartment complex on ft. stevens drive in northwest. >> that officer was able to fight back and help make an arrest. >> reporter: oftentimes we might take for granted those who keep us safe. >> and i do appreciate him for all that he's done. you know, for our building. >> reporter: but the appreciation for a particular security guard that watches over ft. stevens place couldn't have been greater on monday night.

>> just pop, and a few minutes and another pop. >> reporter: a neighbor who didn't want to be identified said she called 911 after she heard gunshots. police arrived and found security guard roland thomas suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. investigators say thomas managed to shoot the suspect, 41-year-old leonard hampton, and detained him until police arrived. >> asked him to please hurry, send somebody because a security guard was shot. >> reporter: thomas worked for pchange protective services for the last four years. >> there wasn't a lot of verbal, wasn't any warning. >> reporter: his co-worker, brendan greenfield-logan responded to the shooting moments after it happened. >> he fired two of the shots and they both struck him in the chest. so it was actually amazing that under such duress he was able to report back. >> reporter: logan says it's not often that security guards get the credit they deserve. >> because we're not technically police officers, we get -- we

kind of get, you know, cast aside. >> reporter: but no one is doubting the heroic acts of officer roland thomas on monday night. >> who knows what would have happened had officer thomas not been there. >> reporter: and those who live in the building he protects say they're grateful for his selfless service. >> he put himself, you know, in harm's way like that. i think it's pretty amazing. >> reporter: now police say that suspect has been charged with assault with intent to kill. we're told thomas is listed in stable condition. now coming up at 6:00, hear from that same eyewitness who describes the moment shortly after those shots were fired. back to you. >> thank you. and another double shooting overnight ended with one young man dead. 21-year-old earnest bay was shot and killed on eaton road in southeastern, the berry farms neighborhood, and another man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. no arrests or motive yet in this shooting. terrible traffic is a common theme around our region. now it's gotten so bad along the

route 7 corridor in northern virginia dramatic changes are being considered from alexandria to tyson's corner. transportation reporter adam tuss is live with the plans to break that gridlock. adam? >> reporter: that's right. you know, most nights route 7 looks like this. the rain certainly not helping matters much tonight, but there are too many people in too many cars and not enough transit options. something has to give. route 7 in a word -- >> frustrating. >> reporter: route 7 from another perspective, how is the traffic on route 7? >> it's awful. >> reporter: route 7 as a whole? >> during peak hours it's really, really bad. >> reporter: you get the point. quick history lesson, route 7 was a buffalo from alexandria to the foot of the mountains in leesburg. now the buffalo have been replaced by a herd of slow-moving cars. and lots of them. >> it's been sort of a promises

made, promises broken kind of scenario. >> reporter: kelly coyner is head of northern virginia transportation commission, so how to fix route 7? everything from more buses to giving buses their own lanes, to a streetcar or light rail line being considered. >> what we're hoping to do is come up with something that will move people all day long and reduce the travel time by about half. >> reporter: that would be good for meredith johnstone. she drives every day from gaithersburg here to falls church. how much extra time does the traffic cost her one way? >> probably 25 minutes. >> reporter: 25 extra minutes a day just because of traffic. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: new details about the route 7 plan will be released later this week. a series of public meetings will be held to transform the corridor in november. all right. so let's say you go with buses or trains here along route 7, would you attract enough riders? coming up at 6:00, i have the projections for you. live in tyson's, adam tuss, news 4. here at the law desk we're

keeping an eye on some significant flooding up and down the east coast. take a look at north carolina. during high tide, you can see the waves breaking and the water rushing right into some of the beach homes. already causing some damage there. and we have seen a lot of flooding down in florida. this instagram video shows the streets of miami beach covered in water this morning. and that rain, the heavy rain that caused these problems has already arrived here in our area. doug and v.j. are tracking it from the storm center. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> we're seeing the rain fall across the area right now, but overspreading the area later this even and as we head into the overnight, some moderate, some heavy rain. we're just getting started. >> we really are. this is round one here. we're going to have a break during the day tomorrow. thursday, friday, saturday, we're watching a potential nor'easter that could develop not to mention we're also watching tropical storm joaquin. >> right, several issues we could be dealing with not just from the rain but also with some

wind as things ramp up along the coast. let's talk about this evening. first, though, flash flood watch. this area shaded in green. hagerstown to martinsville, winchester, la ray, on to the west we could see between 2 and 4 inches already around charlottesville and up toward la ray. there's been about 2 1/2 inches already that has fallen across the area. ponding on area roads, a real possibility. there's your moderate rain. just south of warrenton. that's what comes into our area i think after about 8:00 this evening with these rainfall rates well over an inch an hour, so ponding on area roads, real possibility as we head on into the evening hours and there's already been some flooding with the moderate rain we're tracking off to rest. again, this is just the first piece. let's talk about the impacts on area roads and the intensity as we head through the overnight. >> a lot of traffic on the roadways in and around the beltway, 395 having big-time issues right now. weather related, we always see that this time. when you add in the rain we

continue to see those issues. in the d.c. metro area we're seeing the heaviest rain in through northern virginia. in the d.c. metro area this evening, the rain intensity is on the moderate side on through 8:00. after 8:00, 8:00 to 11:00, we see the heaviest rain really move in toward the d.c. metro area and could pick up that half an inch to an inch of rain. as far as the headlines go over the next couple of days, you know we're watching the rain tonight. the tracking of joaquin and the nor'easter conditions. we'll see thursday, friday, and saturday. v.j.? >> we'll have a lot more coming up on the track of joaquin and its potential impacts the end of the week and possibly through the weekend. that's all in just a few. uber may start charging you a surcharge depending where you live. find out where your extra cash is going. i'm tom sherwood in the district outside of firehouse. sometimes one of the hardest jobs of a firefighter is finding a legal place to pa

you could soon have to pay a bit more if you want to take uber or lfyt in prince george's county. the county council is considering a measure that would add a 25 cent surcharge on rides from ride-sharing services. according to the "washington post," the money would help improve the county's bus system. it would also apply to all trips that originate in prince george's county. both d.c. and montgomery county already have surcharges in place. they're public servants

charged with helping us in emergencies but even the city's firefighters and first responders cannot avoid getting parking tickets near the firehouses. tom sherwood reports on a new effort to ease that parking squeeze. >> reporter: the station at 13th and k downtown. one of the worst places for city firefighters to find parking and to avoid parking tickets. >> i've gotten several tickets. parking here. >> reporter: what's the worst one? >> the worst one was $200. >> reporter: captain nicole liriano is a 12-year member of the fire department. a native washingtonian, she now drives in from the maryland suburbs. >> i love this job. i love the department. i really have no complaints, but parking would be -- it would be nice to not get tickets. >> reporter: but it's a daily battle. too few legal spots anywhere. >> we've actually sat out here and waited for them to come, like, please don't ticket us. >> reporter: many have begun posting signs pleading with ticket writers to go easy on them. now the d.c. council is

considering a bill to allow some stations to have a few special permit parking placards. >> first of all, let me acknowledge that parking is a nightmare. it's a nightmare for many people. >> reporter: ward 3 council member says firefighters are uniquely on call with heavy equipment. the fire union says ta s it's a neighbors have trouble parking, too. >> we don't want to encroach on neighborhood parking if at all possible. >> reporter: now back to captain liriano and her $200 ticket. $200. how much food could you buy for your four children for $200? >> my kids eat a lot, so not much. >> reporter: a public hearing on permit parking for firefighters has not yet been scheduled. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. the high school football player who died after a game had a ruptured spleen, so what does that mean for other young athletes? we'll take a closer look at this hidden danger. thousands of students who have not been immunized within the prince george's county

school system, the doctor who was in charge of this program says the problem is poor recordkeeping. we'll have that

oh, it is a messy tuesday night out there, and it is going to get even worse as the week goes on. >> uh-huh. just the beginning, folks. here's veronica is a check on your forecast. >> yeah, we've got a pocket of moderate, heavy rain to our south. it's going to be lifting right over us. today day one. for the next four, potentially five days it's looking like we have chances of wet weather. then it's really wet weather and wind to kind of wrap up the workweek. as we head in to the weekend.

let's talk about this evening first, though. storm team 4 radar, yeah, it's wet. we just showed you that radar. let's talk about where the flash flood watch is right now. look at that, hagerstown toward oakland, winchester, as far south as la ray. definitely around charlottesville where they've had the heavy rain already today. that's why you're seeing boxes shaded in red. charlottesville, stanton area, flash flood warnings posted there. these are the locations that have already gotten between 2, 3 inches of rain and could be as much as 4 within this flash flood watch. elsewhere, we could see over an inch in some locations. so there could be some ponding on area roads. as we head through the evening hours. again, there's that flash flood warning. charlottesvil charlottesville, down toward stanton, even livingston. look at the big mopocket of yellow, orange, and red. look at the direction which way it's headed. it's more toward the north up toward winchester. all this will take some time to get closer to us. i think it's really after 8:00 we'll start to see more of the moderate and heavy rain make its

way into the metro area. rainfall rates around coalpepper, right now west of warr warrenton, down 29, south of 66. just over a half inch per hour. so again, there could be flooding taking place for the late evening, early part of the night. 78 treedegrees. showers falling through the area. rain likely at 7:00. heavy rain for 9:00 and 11:00 p.m., too, as we h ed into the mid 70s. we're just getting started. our rain chances really go up again for the end of the week. here's your thursday. friday a high chance. saturday, a very high chance of rain and that comes with wind, too, at the end of the week. temperatures tomorrow morning running in the 60s to low 70s. i do think it's going to be a dry morning. dampness and still some humidity for us. as far as your evening goes, 9:00, there's that heavy rain moving through. 11:00 sitting right on top of i-95. then moving east and finally out of here for thursday. we're back to the rain by the end of the week as we start to wrap up this very soggy week. it's the coastal areas that

really are going to be impacted the most, annapolis, ocean city, dewey, for delaware. the beach locations have already been getting a pounding with a lot of beach erosion. there could be a lot more to come. saturday, that heavy rain, the impacted areas, i-81, 66 and once again up around 72, 720. once we get into saturday morning, much of the area could see 3 inches of rain. much of the area west around petersburg, around i-81, could see as much as 5 inches of rain. and because of all that heavy rain, just to the north and west up across western maryland, these are the rivers that i think will be impacted the greatest. and creeks. martinsburg on opequan. shepardstown, harpers ferry. it's going to take some time as far as millville an the shenandoah. we're into the 60s for highs on thursday. gets cool at the end of the week and very windy. can't stress that enough as well.

gusts around 30 to 35 miles per hour. in the 60s on sunday where maybe we can salvage sunday. we got more information coming out mange sure you download our nbc washington app. tune in at 6:00. wendy? >> all right, thank you, v.j. the health director at prince george's county schools is talking for the first time since she was put on leave. this is a story we told you about yesterday as we learned thousands of students still had not received their immunizations. today bureau chief tracee wilkins spoke exclusively to dr. angela wakhweya who says the county is using her as a scapegoat. >> i do not want any child to die on my watch. >> reporter: dr. angela wakhweya, chief of health for the prince george's county school system says having children immunized is her top priority. >> we're talking about measles, whooping cough, chickenpox, meningitis. >> reporter: she says the system is using her as a scapegoat for a problem she helped discover. >> i had highlighted last year we have a missing record issue we need to tackle. >> reporter: literally thousands

of students whose health records were unaccounted for, leaving the system wondering were they immunized or not? >> we had an overarching message that we are not to make the school system look bad. >> what we did not want to do as we were trying to enter records into our system very carefully was to exclude a child or a family who had done the right thing. >> reporter: it's all part of a fallout that somehow played a part of dr. angela wakhweya's job status changing. yesterday you said she was on administrative way. >> dr. wakhweya shared with you all she was on administrative leave. >> reporter: no, she said she's on sick leave. >> again, we are -- we are not commenting on her personnel situation. >> reporter: meanwhile tomorrow an estimated 2,800 students may be turned away from school if they don't have proof of immunization. >> we're sending that urgent message to students, this remaining group, that this is really your last chance.

>> reporter: dr. wakhweya posed an interesting question near the end of the interview asking if the prince george's county school system somehow discriminating against its immigrating students and not properly communicating with them. we'll have the answers to that question coming up on news 4 at 6:00. in upper marlboro, tracee wilkins, news 4. a new mobile visitor center is on the street in arlington, a van operating four days a week at five arlington metro stations expected to help more than 12,000 visitors in the city's big tourist areas. >> we talk about hotels, restaurants, and events. it's much better than a store front simply because we are a mobile unit. instead of having to come to us, we're coming to you. >> the vehicle costs less to operate than running a storefront visitor center and can be taken to special events like the upcoming marine corps marathons. washington, d.c., has one of the highest rates of ovarian cancer in the country.

people are trying to change that. local residents and cancer survivors started the ovarian canc cancer caucus today. they took their message to capitol hill. the group says it's a cancer that doesn't get enough attention. they hope their stories will push legislators to fund research. the founder of the effort says too many women die because the symptoms are hard to spot. >> there have been advances which have enabled more medicines, more chemotherapies, that are enabling women to live longer once it's detected and they've had treatment. but they are still dying at the same rate that they were previously. >> she hopes ovarian cancer is something both parties can rally around. she also hopes the effort will help raise awareness about different testing and treatment options. the death of a new jersey high school football quarterback who died collapsing during a game has been ruled an accident and an autopsy revealed evan murray died from internal bleeding caused by a ruptured

spleen. the medical examiner's office says murray had an abnormally large spleen making him more susceptible to an injury. murray took a hit in the back field after last friday night's game and collapsed after making it to the sideline. there are lots of conditions that can cause a person's spleen to become enlarge but it's very rare they experience symptoms. so oftentimes people never know. why this could be so dangerous. >> wendy, the spleen is the organ that helps to clean your blood. it's where red blood cells are recycled and white blood cells and platelets are stored. typically it's the size of your fist. sometimes the organ can be come enlarge. when the spleen becomes swollen it usually means it's being overactive and that can be caused by anything from mono to cancer to rheumatoid arthritis. there usually aren't any symptoms but it can be diagnosed if a doctor feels it during a physical examination. one of the biggest dangers here

is rupture which can cause deadly bleeding in the abdomen. since the spleen is very soft, it can be easily damaged and that's why playing contact sports can be so dangerous for anyone with this condition. >> pat, thank you. a baltimore police district commander is now off the job. up next, learn how a trip to a community meeting ended with a police shooting. plus, montgomery county council is taking action after news 4 i-team report. what they're doing to crack down

a 16-year veteran of the baltimore police force is on administrative duty tonight after shooting a man. he says that man refused to show his hands, and tonight we're hearing the other side of the story. our sister station in baltimore talked to the man who was shot. >> reporter: john is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg. police commander major byron connaway shot him monday night. he says it happened as he walked to pick up his nephew at an after-school program just after 7:00. he said a black unmarked suv pulled in front of him. >> all the guy said, what's your name, sir? i was like, for what? then he swrump edjumped out of with his gun, what do you got in your hands? i had a cigarette? one hand. i had my hand in my pocket. i was putting chapstick on.

i said ten times it's only chapstick, officer. >> reporter: brown started to back up behind the suv as the officer fired striking him to the leg. he says his brother tried to help. >> i'm laying on the ground bleeding and i said to the officer, please, let me tie my leg up so i don't tie, bleed to death. he tried to put his belt on me. the police pointed his gun in his face and said go down the street or we're going to shoot you, too. >> we have questions, too, that's party of our investigation to get answered. >> reporter: major connaway has been placed on -- their response team is working on the case interviewing witnesses trying to determine what happened. >> we certainly understand the frustrations. these are incidents now in our community we need to talk about as quickly as possible and communicate the most accurate information as quickly as possible. at the same time we owe it to both sides of this to get the accurate and full stories. >> reporter: john is one of those people asking why. >> he has no reason. no reason. there was no reason.

>> i had no weapons, nothing. why he shooting me? he's scared of me. how are you scared me? i had no weapons, nothing. >> baltimore police say it's early in the investigation. so far they have no evidence the man had a weapon. now on news 4 at 6:00 the radar is lighting up as rain and thunder rolls through the region. it's going to be a busy night. more than an inch of rain could fall in some areas. >> live look at conditions in crystal city. see traffic already being impacted. actually got too bad right now. in d.c., dark and damp outside. see the national cathedral through the rain drops barely. this is all part of the same system that is already pounding places like florida and north carolina. high water stranding cars and major damage there. >> we start our coverage in storm center 4 with doug and v.j., a look at what's happening now and what we can expect tomorrow. >> yeah, guy, we got tropical moisture moving up to the gulf of mexico off the atlantic over combining over our region tonight to give us the potential for very heavy rain.

already seen 2 1/2 inches of rain toward the shenandoah valley. >> we're going to go in and out of the soggy periods over the next couple of days and deal with cool temperatures and a lot of wind potentially in some areas. >> it's going to be a mess over the next four to five days. radar right now showing the rain across our area. notice the heaviest rain now coming in toward colepepper county. this is the radar as it's moved in over the last couple l of hours. rain on the steady side. light to moderate around d.c. and gaithersburg, waldorf and quantico. look at the very heavy rain. warren and clark up toward frederick county in virginia, louden county seeing very heavy rain. this is going to continue. we could see some areas of flooding, ponding on the area roads. that's something to watch now. as we look out toward down to the south, notice this train of moisture. you can actually see it coming right off of the atlantic. and then up from the gulf of mexico. we've got a little convergence zone here. that means extremely heavy rain the next few hours in through virginia. h