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. from drought to drenching rain we asked for it and folks we are getting it and good. >> for sure. the form we have been telling you about all day has moved in

from our western county. to cover the entire area, there's rain, wind and flooding on the atlantic coast. flashflood warnings are popping up everywhere. this video is just in from wood burn road. a car got stuck and woman forced to walk to safety. >> we had reports of water rescues in leesburg. here's a look at that heavy rain that came down in northwest washington. with all this rain falling we have more on the way. breaking news on the storm track for tropical storm joaquin. doug. >> the storm track just came in and does look like the storm will come closer to our region. we will watch a new warning that just popped up and continuing to get warnings throughout the evening and brand new for prince george's county, 2:00 for prince george's county pip told you early we would see a month of rain within the next three or

four days. some areas saw that tonight. look at this area right here, incredible amounts of rain from leesburg to frederick. the storm is just about out of here. we have very heavy rain into portions of southern maryland, all moving out. look at these rainfall totals, 4 1/2 in frederick, one report in leesburg, 6 inches of rain and over 32 inches in fredericksburg and 3 inches in maryland. incredible the last few hours. that's only in the last six hours. rainfall rates were quite high. flashflood remains in the darker green. areas in lighter green, this includes upper marlboro and flooding concerns right now making its way to your region. that's today's system, just about out of here. the next system starts with the nor'easter and tropical storm joakim a 70 miles an hour

tropical storm forecast to become a strong category 2 hurricane. we'll talk about that track that does bring it closer to our area this weekend. >> all right. now, the power just came back on to more than a thousand people in this district. this is what dupont circle and the neighborhood has looked like most of this evening. we did find street and stopli t stoplights out and temporary stop signs put up by police and we learned the power is back on. >> the raining and flooding caused serious damage in southwest and central virginia. >> the rowan oak crested its banks and forced schools to close early. a 100-year-old covered bridge was swept away. check out what students in harrisburg experienced tonight. the water is flowing right under i-81 through a pedestrian underpass and flooded some cars

parked nearby. we're following developing news in georgia where just a few minutes ago the u.s. supreme court denied another stay of execution for the only woman on death row in georgia. kelly guess end-- gissendaner scheduled to be put to death tonight but her daughter ral rallying for her support to the end. >> we are still fighting. do not lose your faith. this is not over. >> we pray also interior judges, supreme court and all who might hear this appeal and ask that you soften her heart. >> she has pleaded for her life and so has pope francis and called for an end to the death penalty in d.c. and sent a letter on her behalf to the georgia pa role board. they rejected her appeal and she was convicted of conspireing to murder her husband 20 years ago.

the man who actually stabbed dan gissendaner is serving a life sentence. and the man was pushed to stab her husband and later had a spiritual awakening. all these appeals and we're still awaiting confirmation whether she's been executed. >> thank you. we are in the middle of a death penalty boom across our country right now. six people including gissendaner are scheduled to be executed in the next nine days. man is scheduled for beating another man with a baseball bat. his execution was delayed several times because of evidence questions. >> only the supreme court can stop it now. virginia will carry out its first execution in nearly three years this thursday. governor terry mcauliffe refused to delay the execution of serial killer prieto.

the attorneys argue he is mentally challenged and want the case moved to california. mcauliffe said the case has already been decided in the courts. 120. a number haunting the district tonight. that's how many people have been killed so far this year by gun violence. tonight, a visual reminder of the lives lost as we put faces to those numbers. shomari stone has the story of washington's other monuments. >> it makes me sad and frustrated. >> lloyd wolfe expresses his sadness in a blog. >> i'm an artist and d.c. photographer. >> he snapped memorials of murder victims in d.c. >> i'm trying to wake people up and honor folks that have been murdered. everybody puts it everybody matters and doesn't matter if you were a bad person, somebody's mother and somebody's son. >> reporter: the number is at 120 this year, a 50% increase

compared to last year. >> there's a distinct rise in the homicide rate. >> reporter: communities pay tribute to victims with memor l memorials of balloons and teddy bears and candles and he drives from arlington to d.c. to capture images. >> i don't consider our community separate. we are all in the same community. siloing it and saying you live here and we live here doesn't work. on a practical level, you don't pay attention to the troubles downtown, it bleeds into your own neighborhood. >> reporter: he will also honor 21-year-old jenkins shot on east capitol street out here. the makeshift memorial is gone but lloyd wolf plans to keep the picture on in his blog, d.c. shrine, to keep the story alive in hopes detectives can solve the case. in arlington, shomari stone, news4. just in, someone spray pa t painted a threat against police

officer s, this vandalism discovered this morning. killing aac cops coming soon was found on three separate walls. after searching this area, officers found more graffiti on hammonds lane that read kill cops. they say these kinds of threats will not be tolerated and asking for any tips to help make an arrest. a man accused of raping and killing two college students in virginia will be in court for a pretrial hearing. jesse matthew is back after we learned shocking details of his past a letter unsealed written by a former girlfriend said matthew was sexually abused and raped many times during his elementary years and she beli e believes those assaults may have played a role in allegations he raped and killed morgan harrington and hannah graham. it will be another month before the first of six baltimore officers go on for

freddie gray, a judge delaying it to november 30th, the man in the upper left of your screen. his trial was originally set for two weeks. prosecutors want porter tried first because they also plan to call him as witness against two other officers when their trials begin next year. right now, the fight to de-fund planned parenthood continues to dominate debate inside the capitol. today, the people supporting the organization made their voices heard. nearly 90 cities including washington made rallies for national pinkout day and prot t protested threats from republican lawmakers to stop funding in the wake of undercover videos released by an anti-abortion activist. lawmakers grilled planned parenthood president cecile richards. >> the outrageous accusations against planned parenthood on heavily doctored videos are

offensive and categorically untrue. >> they receive about 5$530 million a year but federal money cannot be used for abortions. private vehicles can start picking you up in the district after the first of the year. the plan to use private contractors for low priority patients was well received today. there are questions whether paramedics will still be required to take every patient go to the hospital who wants to go even if they are healthy. how do you pay for the private service? >> we are going out to the market to negotiate for the service. we don't know yet. we have to buy ourselves some time to repair our vehicles, to respond more timely, and very importa importantly, to train our staff. >> we also don't know yet if this will be a short term or long term solution. the mayor wants to try it out for one year. penalties for drunk drivers involved in deadly crashes in

maryland go up starting thursday. dui offenders with blood alcohol levels of .08 or higher face 45 and 90 day suspensions on first and second offenses. starting october first those penalties go up to six months and a year. with a blood alcohol level of .15 or higher the new penalty would be one year on the first offense and losing your license all together if it's a second offense. next at 11:00, we're getting a closer look tonight at the laundry detergent bandit. >> this man caught stealing tide pods from a grocery store. have you seen him? catching a wide from an u autobiograpuber could cost you more with a proposed increase. and a swarm of bees unlea unleashed inside an officer's patrol car. a lot of flooding going on

across our region after some locations picking up 3, 4, even 6 inches of rain. we have round two and look down there, tracking joaquin could make its way to our area coming up. i'm melissa with your first traffic report from braddock road to i-95 will have two

new tonight, prince george's county is getting ready to spend big on the most problem roads to attract business and development including $31 million on the

route 1 revitalization project in college park and improving roads across the county with repaving and branch avenue improvements and in around the casino. >> we laerpd your next uber ride could carry an added surcharge, 25 cents a ride go towards bus service and making it more accessible. excited about uber coming, all part of our strategy of making it an economic destination and also allows us to help fund other existing priorities. >> montgomery county and prince george's county have other votes to be made. a man wanted for stealing detergent pods but does it while

armed. they believe he stole tide pods from wheaton and want this man for doing the same thing at safe way in rockville. montgomery police say the guys did pull knives when someone tried to stop them at the safe way, an employee tried to stop them by throwing mangos at them. police say tide detergent, i didn't know this, is worth big money on the black market. >> they may be using the proc d proceeds to buy drugs. >> reporter: you want to track them down. >> we sure do. >> police are offering a 10,0$10 reward for tips that lead to arrest in these cases. the fbi wants to know if you recognize this man accused of trying to rob a bank yesterday afternoon at the citibank on connecticut avenue near chevy chase circle. he passed the teller a note and then walked out. he is considered armed and

dangerous. if you have any information call police. tomorrow is the last day you can visit the crime museum at gallery place. it will close and been there seven years. the people said they were asked to leave their building and didn't have a choice. d.c.'s real estate market is the main reason for the move, it's quite hot down there. they will continue to offer some like the assassination and walking tour and traveling education programs. and historic flight takes off tomorrow from bwi-marshall airport. it sends its first charter flight to cuba at 4:00 in the afternoon. the first ever bwi flight to the island nation. it is the only airport in our region authorized to send flights to cuba twice a week on wednesdays and saturdays. the rain didn't delay hundreds gathered for the lights of hope ceremony, bringing

together for cancer patients and brought out bags to spell out hope and cure. the group wants to draw attention -- the attention of congress and convince lawmakers to make funding for cancer research a higher priority. i'm glad they stayed -- the names stayed lit out there. it is a deluge. >> it really is. some locations picking up at least an inch. many areas picking up way more. 4 inches in frederick county and 5 inches in parts and 6 inches at the airport tonight. 1.65 inches was one of the lower totals. the rain came in buckets. we've been talking about the tropical humid air mass across the region, what you need for these types of rain. see that circulation? that enabled this lift in the.

to bring out the rain. incredible amounts of rain in this region. see that red area? it moved up. fortunately most of this is out of the area. we are now out of it. still looking at rain to the south, calvert county picked up 2 inches and you can see lightning associated with that. most continues to move out. any rain behind it? there is. but it's very scattered. for the most part the heavy rain is done and we have a flashflood watch in parts of the area from noon to tomorrow in case we see another heavy downpour or two. look at the moisture streaming from the gulf and off the laerk ocean. we have tons of moisture available. we will see a cold front come through during the afternoon tomorrow. first, we will get rather warm tomorrow. high 70s to 80 degrees. can't rule out a shower or two.

a low impact day, warm and humid. a few showers, take the umbrella, take the small umbrella and then we see things change. a month's worth of rain. some will get it tonight. very humid conditions, cold front moves through and sets up an area of high pressure to our north and area of low pressure comes up and combine the two with a strong northerly flow, nor'easter developing friday and saturday without joakim moving in we still get coastal flo flooding, beach erosion, winds 35 miles an hour and 3-6 inches of rain and some more than that. if joaquin is able to move into that system all bets are off. just to the east of the bahamas, hurricane watch up for the bahamas. winds of 70 miles an hour just below hurricane strength, exp t expected to be a hurricane this time tomorrow, 85 miles an hour winds. look at thursday, 100 miles an hour winds, strong category 2,

friday even stronger, 105 and stronger as it moves up and potentially moves back into our region. if that were to happen this will be a very high impact storm. this is what you need to be watching the next couple of days. chuck bell will have the latest early tomorrow morning and i think this shift may happen with the 5:00 advisory. watch out for that. 80 degrees tomorrow, 64 on thursday. friday with rain, heaviest time and wind high of only 59. friday will be one dreadful day. saturd saturday, high temperature of 75 and very heavy rain and we're still watching what joakim does. if it does make its way in, we're talking a potentially dangerous event, something we will be watching. up next, wizards all smiles as they open up training camp. why their head coach isn't

nats taking on the braves tonight. bryce is back. >> bryce is back. yesterday, fans were like, move along, nothing to see here to all the media. really, it's like that awkward moment you say good-bye to someone and you both walk off in the same direction? >> you have to chitchat, oh. >> that's us right now with the nation nationals, that uncomfortable farewell tour. six final games including tonight in atlanta. a lot of folks will go a long way to see bryce harper.

he set the record of 124 walks on the season and watched trai turner in the sixth. smacks this ball, over the fence, firbs career big league homer for the 22-year-old. he gets to keep it. you can't slight what with your watching here. a homer by a.j. pierzynski. braves take a 2-1 lead. top nine now. nats trying to rally two on. two on, no outs for desmond. he has a bunt and pierzynski goes to third for one and desmond out at first. >> he didn't run. >> head scratching double play. 2-1, nats lose. good to see the rookie, turner becoming big time. it was a long good-bye to the nats while we say hello to the

wiza wizards. expectations high flying practices go hand-in-hand. they're having their first two practi practices. coming off a 46 win campaign last season following the atlanta hawks in round two for the playoffs. lots of motivation, new faces in the fold and head coach, randy wittman. love the excitement the team brought today, even if it meant a lot of mistakes. >> we threw the ball all over the place. probably if i had referees here we probably had eight guys foul out. that happens and on purpose why i never bring referees in here. it's just that ex-sub breber ra of being back in the gym. great excitement. i'd be really worried if it was the opposite but it wasn't. >> he's not worried. we are about the redskins. bad news for the skins, one of bill callahan's guys out for the

season, left guard shawn lauvao out for the season suffering a high ankle sprain in the first quarter with the giants and he had been playing so well, had key blocks for a couple of matt jones' touchdowns a couple weeks ago. competition is on to see who will replace him. joshua revis got hurt last week and a couple unproven guys. the story line is still out there what will

you might call this pollin ater paluso. you might have seen this on our facebook page. a swarm of wbees trapped a depuy sheriff in his cruiser. they got busy when the truck carrying them crashed and went to the cruiser. when the police responded, the bees got nice and comfy on the cruiser, maybe the flashing light. someone noticed it half a mile away and bee keepers were called in to wrangle as many

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