wash out its plans. the taste of georgetown also happening. this is a big event. they say rain, not going to be a problem. >> in a rainy event, the taste of georgetown is kind of the place to be. it's under natural cover and we had a great time last year. >> vendors set it under the white hurst freeway. that event begins on saturday. we will, of course, keep you updated on any changes with our washington nbc app. all eyes will be on the 17th street levee to see if it can hold potential floodwaters. it's located between two permanent flood walls at the corner of 17th street and constitution avenue. that's the lowest point in d.c. the levee is just one years old. it's a removable structure of aluminum panels and steel posts. it's used downtown. it will not stop flooding by

heavy rain. the national park service said it's ready to erect the levee on short notice if there is a problem. there are several things you can do right now. the big one is to make sure leaves and other debris are cleared from your gutters and downspouts. make sure you have a full tank of gas in your car, know how to get in touch with family as friends in case of app emergency. download the app. from there you can download an up-to-the-minute forecast. we do want to check back in with chuck bell with a closer look on how joaquin could impact our area. hey, chuck. >> yeah. there's a whole lot of uncertainty as to what exactly is going to be the track of joaquin. there's a couple of things in play. this that we're dealing with, that's going to have a big impact on where the track of joaquin officially ends up. there's a lot of uncertainty. one of the computer models keeps

it well off the coast. another one brings it a lot closer in. no matter what happens, we're going to get a lot of rain friday and saturday and sunday, monday s what we're going to have to keep a close eye out on as the official track for the national hurricane center still brings a category 1 hurricane or tropical storm somewhere close to the mouth of the chesapeake b bay. so we'll be keeping a very close eye on that. moderate impact on your day today, your thursday, will be cool and rainy. more rain on the way. take your umbrella with you this morning. temperatures are in the chilly 50s and will barely make 0 60 aa high today. for more on traffic, here's melissa. >> good morning. you can see where the weather is moving in here. the bottom of the beltway starting to see a little bit of a slowdown in one area in here. otherwise looking pretty good. you can see here some of the icons. some road closures, they're typically minor road.

of course, we'll let you know if they are. 95 southbound we do have some roadwork with alternating lanes. that's going to be out of the way by 9:00 a.m. this morning. near 163 near lorton road, something reported there. trying to get more information on that one. a big look at the beltway as you take kind of a closer look. you can see overall inner loop and outer loop, everything is moving fine. no major problems right now. you can see above 370 here, a little bit of rain in that area, otherwise, 270, nice and clear at this point. we'll be back in ten minutes. two men are dead and this morning homicide investigators are trying to figure out who killed them. prince george's county police say last night's shooting was not random. they say both men died around 8:00 at the central gardens apartments in capital heights. they'll work to identify the men and motive in the case. a man has one last hearing

before his trial. charles severance faces charges for three killings in the alexandria area. today will likely revolve around his mental health. the defense says he does not plan to plead guilty by reason of insanity but they want to use his mental condition why wrights say his prosecution proves guilt. his formal trial should start monday. and a sex offender accused of the disappearance of two sisters. they never came home. police never found their bodies. this morning will be the first time lloyd welch appears on murder charges for their deaths in virginia's bedford circuit county court. the judge will appoint an attorney to his case. a developing story. a judge has approved a restraining order block ang execution in virginia.

the convicted serial killer is set to be put to death tonight. the judge wants to stop the execution until a hearing is held over the drugs that will be used in the execution. we want to follow the update and bring you any updates. >> in oklahoma an inmate who was to be executed last night gave him 36 hours. the corrections officials received the wrong drug. oklahoma was criticized in 2014 for a botched execution that called into question the use of certain drugs in the death penalty. 4:35 right now. a new attack in the serial assaults in arlington. police do not think the same person is responsible for all of them. watchful nabors is all that kept a 23-year-old woman from being

attacked. a man heard a scream like he never heard before and it made him jump off the couch. >> i look outside and she's pointing to my neighbor who was going after him. >> she was getting off the bus at north quincy around 11:30. that's when the suspect grabbed her from behind, put her into sort of a headlock, and pulled her into the bushes. >> if you are a federal worker, your paycheck will keep coming. last night president obama signed a continuing resolution that will keep it running until september 11th. one thing congress did not work on last night was an extension of the law that provides medical treatment to first responders who rushed to ground zero on

911. just last week jon stewart joined lobbyists in congress to save the fujding. for now they'll still be able to get health care, but the program will have to start shutting down by next summer if congress doesn't act. check out storm team 4 radar. it's already sprinkling, but can kids expect a downpour? chuck's back with the answers. >> their name has been controversial for years but one of the candidates for president says, it's not so bad. we'll tell you who said it. and new developments in the scandal rocking volkswagen. the local connection to s&ps

police for seven years is over this morning. police in colorado say an 18-year-old's body was inside a chimney of an abandoned cabin less than a mile away from his home. contractors were tearing down the cabin in woodland park when they found the young man's remains last month. new developments in the volkswagen emissions scandal. one state has issued a subpoena and we can probably expect more. more than two dozen states launched a joint investigation into the false emissions claims of tv.w. illinois is the first state to g push to get more answers. one comes from our region later

today. all right. we're keeping a close eye on hurricane joaquin and what that means for the area. "weather & traffic on the 1s." >> and, chuck, it seems like we've gone from drought to deluge, just like that. >> i made joke of it on monday. every drought ends with a flood and that's even sl chalssential happened. the rain and fog out there. nothing all that heavy yet. a few hit-and-miss sprinkles. cloudy and damp. temperatures only in the mid to upper 50s early this morning and rising very, very little. highs today barely making it above the 60-degree mark. more on the impact of joaquin and the impact in ten minutes. for now time to check on the traffic. melissa mollet, raindrops falling on the roadway. >> raindrops falling on the

roadway. take a look at 66, 95 and lorton road. not too much about that but you can see moisture coming up. prince george's county looking pretty dry. no major problems here on the map right now. taking a look at 95 southbound, powder mill road, some lanes blocked because of roadwork. they look at the beltway, inner loop and outer loop. germantown road, you can see the raindrops on the camera lens. everything moving just fine. we'll see you in ten minutes. >> thank you, melissa. donald trump speaks out. why he'd send all the migrants back to the war-torn country. and good news for drivers in the district. why parking

welcome back at 4:45. take a look at this video. the country has carried out air strikes in syria. russia launched the air strikes yet but u.s. are not convinced the attacks were aimed aet the militant group. they say the attacks on syria may be a dangerous move. nbc tracie potts joins us on capitol hill with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. carter says it's like pouring gasoline on a fire while the u.s. and russia are talking at the u.n. take a look at what's happening on the ground in syria. russia has been building up its military and look at this. the first air strike on syria.

they believe that russia is going after the opposition forces that we are backing, that the u.nited states is backing. because, remember, while the two countries both want to see isis out, they have very different views about syria's government. russia supports it. u.s. wants to see assad out. john mccain says this is what happens when there's inaction by the u.s. russia's vladimir putin fills the void. serious concerns as they continue to talk about how to koomt in syria but not quite what's happening on the ground. >> all right. tracie potts live on capitol hill. thank you, tracitracie. >> if i win, they're going back. they're going back. back to syria. >> back to syria. that's where syrian refugees

will go if donald trump makes it. he's talking about the syrian refugee crisis. earlier this month john kerry said the united nations will accept more than 80,000 next year. many of them from syria. >> we started out with 10,000. the other day i heard 200,000. we're going take in 200,000 syrians or wherever they come from. we have no idea. there's no identification. there's no anything. >> trump is concerned that allowing them into the u.s. will allow isis into the country. a selfless decision caused a corporal his life. he was on route 15 on his way to work at camp david when he pulled his pickup over tuesday night to help a driver stranded in the rain. a tractor trailer ran into him

and killed him nearly instantly. a man who has spray painted threats against police in anne arundel is now in custody. police didn't have to go that far to find shanner. he was already in custody on a separate shoplifting charge. the first direct flight from our area has landed safely in cuban. it left bwi. it's the only airport in the area authorized to send flights to cuba. the flight will operate twice a week on wednesdays and saturdays. >> we're so happy to see the cuban culture, cuban food, meet the cuban people. it's an easy flight. three hours from baltimore. >> the flight touched down one day after the two nations held talks that mayed a more flights

from cuba to the u.s. well, you won't have to worry about the meter. meter hours were supposed to stretch an extra two hours all the way to midnight but our news partner wtop learned that won't happen. instead, expect the longer meter hours sometime in 2016, maybe not until june. that's because the d.c. department of transportation said they're not ready. they were approved as part of the budget. did you know the parking officers in the district have to park the same as you. the only time they get to park illegally is when it's urgent. when we showed this employee parked illegally to get food and cash, they said they would investigate and remind him about these rules. a new twist in hillary clinton's run for president. so far it shows hackers tried to

get into her private e-mail server at least five times. it's been an issue that she did not use the public system during her time as secretary of state and the documents say each time happened in 2011. it's still unclear if she opened any of those messages disguised as speeding tickets from new york. one man said he was okay with the redskins name. jeb bush was asked about the native american name. many think of it as a racial slur. here's whoo he says. >> i don't think politicians ought to have any say in that, to be honest with you. i don't find it offensive. it's a sport, for crying out loud. it's a football team. >> that's just an excerpt from the new arena show. it's about the intersecticeptio

politics and sports. it airs tomorrow afternoon. d.c. leaders filed an after-hours claim for eminent domain on the land. that means they would take it from the developer at buzzard point. they agreed to swap land at u street and then said they would buy it outright but at a lower price than the developer wanted. right now people keeping your safe in a hurricane event are training in georgia. mark segraves was there. don't panic. officials say for every responder emergency training in georgia, there's another one covering their shift back here in maryland paying for federal dollars. >> that's what they say. experts in every situation, if you can remain calm, it's so much easier to get yourself out of a troubled situation whether you're stranded or going through

flooded water but it's tough to remember that in a situation like that. >> sure is. >> right? >> absolutely. >> i think i would panic. i'm going to admit it. >> the key is with all the flooding and high water, turn around, don't drown, and how many times do we do stories of people getting stuck. >> tomorrow and saturday, a lot of rain coming our way. if you can get things done before or wait until after all the rain is done, running errands and things like that, if you can do it before or after the event, always better. what you can expect for today? when you step out the door, much, much cooler. it was in the muggy 70s yesterday. it's in the chilly 50s this morning. there's a light rain this morning and steadier rain likely to come back this afternoon as well as an increasing breeze. flash flood watches have already been issued not for today but friday and saturday across the entire metro area points south and west of us from the eastern

shores. friday and saturday could see a combined total of 3 to 6 inches of rain. ahead of the storm, get your gutters and andre spouts out. make sure if you've got a basement, you've about got a pump in there. if you have valuables in the basement, you may want to move them off the basement floor to the second dairy and make sure that if it floods your pictures of grandma don't get lost in the flood. nothing serious, but you'll need your umbrella. steadier somehow errs way down to your south and west. this is all part of an upper low. it's pushing that plume of tropical moisture right up the eastern seaboard. so we have no shot at sunshine today, tomorrow, saturday, probably into sunday as well. as i mentioned, it's cooler. temperatures in the mid to upper 50s now. we're stranded to near 60 degrees today. that's it. >> yesterday we were 778 by

comparis comparison. here's the future. cloudy skies with spits and drizzles before more showers come in later this afternoon into this evening, so not always going to be the best news there. have your umbrella with you now. and, of course, the very latest on joaquin. good news. it's still days away and there's a lot of uncertainty. it's trending away from the metro shore and out to sea. there's your metro weather. cool, wet, rainy. all before your improvements. >> for now, here's melissa with your traffic. >> good morning. right now again you can see the rain falling. live picture showing 270 southbound. you can see that moisture there on the lens of the camera. 66 no problems. 95, drew an area for you so you could see a little bit of a slowdown. southbound because of roadwork as you're heading southbound to

the dale city area. southbound at powder mill road, still has some construction. a big look at the beltway, inner loop and outer loop rolling along just fine. we're nice and green. remember to listen to our friends wtop 103.5 f.m. when you hop in the car. >> thank you, hls. her son killed her daughter. the words exchanged next. and another scandal for the secret service. the report that says the top official learned information and the strange reason behind that the strange reason behind that accusa

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looking live at storm team 4 radar and the rain moving through our area. it's the beginning of a nor'easter and the first of two storms to hit us. chuck bell is keeping an eye on all that and an eye on joaquin. >> i looked the mother in the eye. i told her i understood that it was very difficult on her family as well, i gave my condolences, and shook her hand. >> jill harrington. matthew is charges with murder ring her daughter. jill harrington said it was the right thing to do speaking with

mathew's mother. she said he's on trial, not his family. two weeks ago they formally charged matthew. the trial will begin on march 24th 20rks 16. a long time away, says the harrington family. >> that's a long time for us to keep this ball rolling. >> it will be seven years after the event. >> matthew already faces up to live in prison after being convicted of an attempted murder in fair fax. he ee also facing trial for the uva student, heather graham. this morning officials are looking for a man who exposed himself to a woman on a train. lopez unzipped his pants while sitting o an train and blocked her from leaving her seat. she was able to give police details including a chef jacket he was wearing. police have had similar words of this attack.

they arrested him earlier this week. john dwyer was arrested. he crashed his boat. six people were hurt. according to the capitol nooup dwyer was arrested for violating his parole. he had six beers one night in may. an interlock device on his vehicle detected alcohol and prevented him from driving. what may look like a big scandal is unfoelgd ldeunfolded. this time it goes all the way to the top. the report says edward lowery exposed congressman jason chaifetz 2003 application to join the agency and his rejection to scores of secret service employees. >> it's a bit scary. if they would