i'm young, i'm handsome, i'm fast, i'm pretty and can't possibly be beat! >> an olympic gold medalist and fighter beyond the ring. >> but in war, the intention is to kill, kill, kill, kill, and continue killing innocent people. >> a legacy unmatched in history, unparalleled in passion. >> the world remembers the heavyweight champion. >> and a lot of you waking up this morning to that somber news. many folks seeing it on news feeds, no doubt. we, of course, will haveh

by boxing legend muhammad ali, who had passed away at 74 years old. good morning to you. i'm david culver. >> good morning to you. i'm kristin wright. we lost another great one. >> i know. and feels like the weather kind of mimicking how a lot of folks are feeling this morning. >> most definitely. turning our attention to the weather first with thunderstorms coming our way this saturday. storm team 4 meteorologist lauren ricketts is tracking it all. >> yes. gloomy and gray start out there. also a little on the humid side and just warm all the way around. temperatures around 70 degrees now 71 in washington. we've got temperatures in the upper 60s shenandoah valley, come up a little over the last 30 minutes or so. you can see the visibility right now. not improving that much. we still have low visibility due to all the fog out there. going to take a while for that fog to lift up. we're going to continue with low clouds through much of the morning. temperatures topping out in the low 80s today, but

some which could be strong. we also have flash flood watches out there posted already. let you know exactly what's expected this afternoon coming up. >> lauren, thank you so much. reaction coming in from all over about the boxing death of legend muhammad ali who died friday at the age of 74. ali spent the last few days at a phoenixary hospital treated for a respiratory complication. >> inside and outside of the ring, muhammad ali touched the lives of generations. >> and you can make the argument, many will tell you, that ali's skills in the ring, his charismatic personality paved the way for a new generation of boxers. news 4 derrick ward is live at tony's boxing gym in the northeast with a look how folks are remembering the champ. good morning, derrick. >> reporter: good morning. you know, a lot of us were awakened with this shocking news that muhammad ali had passed,

think back across the career. he started, was born in 1942. by the age of 22 had become an olympic gold medalist. went on to defeat sonny liston, and that was the start of a professional career that would see three titles, and some iconic bouts. we all remember the thrillla in manila, rumble in the jungle and news of his death sent a shock wave across the boxing community, but just the community in general. we're here at tony's gym. joining me, saleem. you were telling me muhammad was one of your idols? >> yes, he was. a big loss. muhammad ali gave a lot. he inspired me. i learned how to discipline, respect, and integrity. i don't care what people take from me or what they say about me, i stand strong on my integrity. >> reporter: got some golden

champion that have come out of this gym and latary bout up in baltimore. probably the talk around this. live in the northeast, derrick ward, back to you. >> thank so much, derrick. muhammad ali battled parkinson's disease for a long time. more than three decades. it's a chronic, progressive condition with symptoms worsening over time. tremors, rigid muscles, slow movements and changing in writing and speech. which we saw with muhammad ali. the disease on its own is now fatal, but complications from advanced parkinson's lead to death. a million people in the u.s. suffer from the disease, and there is no cure. it is finally here. today, the first phase of metro's safe track program gets underway as we have been telling you, safe track is that major maintenance overhaul where crews usedxtra time on weekends to inspect and work on the tracks. show you what those

ride the rails can expect. 13 straight days of single tracking on the orange and silver lines between boylston and east falls church station. also notice reduced service on the orange and silver lines and t there's going to be a severe impact west of boylston, trains running every 18 minutes on those lines through june 16th. with safe track underway today, that also means the end of late-night metro service. many will have to make extra plans for heading out on the town for an entire year, really. folks we spoke with say shutting down late-night service will have a pretty serious impact. >> we can get out potentially around 11:30, 12:00 and i would be able to catch metro home, not a lyft, cost about $10 tos 15ds from here every night. >> the time change inconvenient for some. a lot of riders are happy something is being done to improve safety. >

riders as the track gets underway. starting today, a discount on capital bike share, if you want to bike it. rates reduced to $2 for a trip under 30 minutes. so this instead of the norm's '- normal $8 pass fee. and service expanded in the square starting monday. montgomery county taking steps to improve safe track. the county department of transportation told our i-team next to seven extra ride-on buses on the roads and free service between metro stations shut down during the repairs. the county may also retime traffic lights and make changes to street parking. we've set up a special metro safe track section on nbcwashington.com and in the nbc washington app. you can see all scheduled closures and when stations near you will be impacted. justrc

working in prince george's county. neighbors there forced outside as crews put out an apartment fire in hyattsville overnight. the flames started in the 8100 block of 15th avenue. we're working to find out how many apartment units were damaged. damp certainly done, and working to see how many residents were affected. no word yet on injuries. a bizarre death investigation under way at this hour in northeast. around 2:15 this morning, d.c. police tweeted a victim had been fatally stabbed in the 500 block of eastern avenue. but officers now say the victim could have been injured in "some other way." we're going to give an update once we know more. 8:07 now. smoke for miles. and massive fire. the danger as a train goes off the rails, and the mystery as investigators piece together the wreckage. and giving you an update on new controversy in the race for

the white house. the comments drawing criticism from both parties. this as the battle grows for key ground in decision 2016. it's 8:08.

smoke could be seen for miles after a train carrying cars full of oil derailed and sparked a massive fire. it happened friday afternoon. about 70 miles east of portland. total of 11 cars derailed as the train was making its way to washington state. no one got hurt, and no buildings damped but the derailment is still under investigation. turning now to the race for the white house. donald trump facing more criticism this morning. this time by singling out an african-american man at a campaign rally in california. this is what happened. trump was talking about a previous rally where he says an african-american supporter got into it with some protestors. but then at this y,

suddenly points out a black man in the crowd. listen to what he says. >> we had a case where we had an african-american guy who was a fan of mine. a great fan. great guy! in fact i want to find out what's going on with him. look at my african-american over here. look at him. >> all right. hillary clinton, meanwhile, is hoping to lock up the democratic nomination on tuesday with a win in california. she is just 70 delegates away. be sure to catch "meet the press" tomorrow morning at 8:00. moderator chuck todd speaking with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and get you up to speed on all the twists and turns in the race for the white house. lauren ricketts, trackng thunderstorms that are heading our way. we are getting ready for what's going to be a weather alert day tomorrow. lauren will prepare us. and still so much rain out in texas. devastating floods. just washing out parts of the state. homes and cars,

thousands are trying to clean up from this disaster. we'll be rit back. gh

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then after noon, this goes for everybody, whether you're getting married today or not, all bets off. showers and thunderstorms rolling through the area. timing coming up next. >> thanks. still a mess out in texas. right now the army is confirming that the bodies of four fort hood soldiers missing in massive flooding have been found. the soldiers were swept away in a creek during a training exercise. five other soldiers killed and three more injured. at least six other people have died in the floods out there. >> president obama cutting sentences for 42 drug offenders. the president's latest round of clemency means he's commuted 348 total sentences since takings office. an increase as he approaches the end of his presidency. now the latest 42 are serving life sentences and

sentences shortened. most of those now set to be released on october 1st. three minnesota men found guilty of conspiring to join isis could face life in prison. a jury found them guilty friday. all three accused of plotting to travel to syria to join isis. the state's top federal prosecutor says these convictions should be a wake-up call on the need to stop terror recruiting. police in bethesda looking for a person who stole a special bike. a bike honoring a veteran killed riding his bicycle at the time. the ghost bike sat in the 6100 block of massachusetts avenue where 64-year-old timothy holden was hit and killed last august. it served as a memorial for him. the all-white bicycle was stolen sometime between may 26th and may 30th. and that time frame has a lot of folks upset. >> even more tragic that it happened memorial day. the first memorial day that tim wasn't with us. his ghost bike disappeared. >> if you have any information about where that bike might be, im

county wants to hear from you. we are learning more about the ucla murder/suicide. gunman mainak sarkar, two on his hit list, two professors. guns, tactical gear and a lot of ammo. he killed professor bill klug in an office but apparently did not go after the second instructor. an engineer and a colleague heard two shots in klug's office. they were able to hold that office door closed so the gunman couldn't get out. these witnesses say sarkar likely ended the rampage they think early, because he believes he was about to be caught. a 6-year-old playing in a playground in the mount vernon part of fairfax county when a man exposed himself to the child. right now police want to find that man. the boy's mom says it happened wednesday night around 6:45, on tower drive knee south kings highway. police did not get a good suspect description.

elite team of special forces in colorado. up on a 13,000 foot mountain training when some of the soldiers began feeling altitude sickness and they needed help. but before that chopper you see there could get there, they actually had to get to the top so that park rangers could safely land that chopper to bring everybody back down. all right. a first for the olympic games. a group of refugee athletes will become a team, and they're going to compete under the olympic flag. the team will include a swimmer from syria who swam across the mediterranean sea to reach safety in europe. ten athletes in all expected to compete on this refugee team. the summer games begin in rio in just 62 days. meantime, the u.s. canoe slalom team getting ready for rio. >> also trying to protect themselves from the zika virus. members of the team train in maryland, and are leaving today

france. news 4 chris gordon caught up with hem at the whitewater training course in dickerson. >> reporter: they're getting ready for rio and they're not letting the zika virus stop them. >> we're an outdoor sport, meaning whitewater slaloms. we're not familiar with things like mosquitoes. so we're taking the same precautions. bringing the bug spray, the long sleeves. >> i don't intend to pull out. i think rio 2016 is trying to do everything in their power to make the olympics a safe environment for the athletes as well as the spectators. >> reporter: if you're like me, you probably didn't even know that there was a whitewater course here at the dickerson generating plant. it was built in 1991 in preparation for the '92 olympics in barcelona, where the team won a gold and a bronze, and since has enjoyed great success. >> well, it's really unusual.

it's like a giant joo kuzy, which makes it great for winter training. >> reporter: for this woman, the course is almost in her backyard from darnstown and just qualified for the olympics for the very first time. >> once i started really dreaming big i started thinking about kind of qualifying for the games, and now that i have, it's just an incredible feeling. >> you may have heard about the contaminated water in rio. good news, athletes won't compete in that. their own facility with chlorinated water. >> that's have good. i'm sorry. making me laugh. over here. >> because i was looking in the mirror. we have a mirror behind here. oh, man, my hair. >> the humidity outside? >> it's the humidity. i have naturally curly hair. >> you do. >> and with that straight iron today. surprised half of it didn't fall off. >> southern california, no humidity. >> you'

>> the lahair going to look goo >> oh, yeah. >> it looks great now. >> thank you. so much hair spray. we'll get to the weather. already. temperatures now, 70 degrees out there. we're warming up into the low 80s today. so, yes, ladies, go ahead and put the mayhairspray on, humidi not going inwhere. by this afternoon, when we see showers and thunderstorms. in fact, continue with showers and thunderstorms throughout the afternoon and even into the evening. so the dew point, that's the measure of moisture in the air. once get that into the 60s you start to feel hume humidity and it's in fulls for. the fog out there, nothing got anywhere. dealing with low visibility. not rain again until just in the early afternoon. we've got a little boundary hanging across the virginia area. it's going to lift to the north, that's going to pop off showers and thunderstorms. our next front still out in the

tomorrow night and that is going to bring showers and thunderstorms. some which could be severe. this afternoon, looking good throughout this morning. if you got things to do. an 1:00, look to the west. seeing showers and thunderstorms develop along the shenandoah valley and then they will prove to the east. chances increase around d.c. as we go into the evening. so if you're going out tonight, bring that umbrella. temperatures in the 70s, but rain and thunderstorms. after about 3:00, you can see showers and thunderstorms and, again, heavy at times. packing a punch. a lot of rain possible. in fact, flash flood watches along the shenandoah valley. even overnight showers and thunderstorms, maybe a break tomorrow morning before more develop ahead of a frontal system. threat ends by sunset tomorrow night and monday looking fabulous. looking for tomorrow, storm team 4 alert day, high winds, maybe a little hail. isolated tornado threat. we got about a 60% chance of rain today developing again after about

throughout the overnight. continuing through the day tomorrow. storm team 4 weather alert day, weather possible. next chance of rain, isolated tuesday afternoon. look at temperatures in the 70s ending out next workweek. >> something to look forward to. thank you, lauren. teen drivers rammed off the road. the dangerous case of road rage that nearly cost them their lives.

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this is just a terrifying moment for a couple in oklahoma when a truck slammed into their car. you can see it there. they were going down the highway. then the car goes across the interstate. the pickup truck tailgating the 18-year-old driver and his girlfriend before pushing them aside. viral video shows their car just missing another and then this. rams into the guardrail so hard the air bags both deployed. the girlfriend and driver hut but expected to be okay. police looking for the driver of that pickup. >> wow. an update now about that accused gunman behind a security scare at the white house a couple weeks ago. according to court documents, jessy olivieri told a secret service officer he came to washington to "shoot people." he was officially charged friday. an agent shot olivieri two weeks ago after he allegedly approached the white house checkpoint holding a gun.

been an attempt at suicide by cop. he faces 20 years in prison if convicted. your check list for today. raincoat, check, umbrella, check. you need both of them. storm team 4 tracking thunderstorms, not only today but tomorrow. going to be really serious. a look at that with lauren. coming up on 8:30 now. a sexual assault on metro. the new attack bringing rider safety to light and how the victim was able to get away. many of us waking up to somber breaking news this morning. legendary boxer muhammad ali has died. ahead we'll look at his remarkable career and legacy that's left bend.hi ♪ ♪ maxx life in store and online. find brands you love at prices that work as hard as you do.

it is 8:30, and we're looking at this morning's top stories. the world is mourning the death of legendary boxer and humanitarian muhammad ali had died last night at 74 years old. metro's spacetrack service underway. expect delays on the orange and silver lines between boylston and east falls church along with reduced service on those lines and severe impact west of boston. and a death investigation in northeast. around 2:15 we noticed d.c. police tweet add victim was stabbed in the 500 block of eastern avenue and later died, but officers now saying the victim could have been

we're going it look into that and keep you updated. meantime, it is warm and, yeah, really muggy outside. even tough to see. a live picture looking out. a little foggy, tracking thunderstorms that could be rolling in. good morning. i'm david culver. >> good morning to you. i'm kristin wright knop question about it, you're going it need that umbrella today. confession, i don't have one at the moment. >> me neither. we'll find one. >> absolutely. team 4 meteorologist lauren ricketts is tracking the timing. >> ooum sheer we have one back here in the storm team 4 weather center. funny, i don't care an umbrella either and know when it's going to rain, have a jeep and leave the top off, inside now, knowing it's pouring out there. not pouring now, though. low 70s now. planning out your day making it into the low 80s. first half of the day looking good. showers and storms arriving after 1:00 along

radar looking clear. seeing clouds. sticking with clouds through much of the morning, but you're just hanging out for brunch, eating outside, not looking too bad, just on the muggy side. timing out showers and storms to plan out your weekend coming up. guys? >> lauren, thanks. check in with you then. we want to get you updated on breaking news following all morning. the death of boxing legend muhammad ali. he died friday at the age of 74. he had spent the last few days in a phoenix area hospital treated for respiratory complications. ali's death is sending shock waves around the world this morning. >> that's right. the boxer and humanitarian, you know, he called himself the greatest of all time, and he spent a lifetime living up to that, touching people he met and those who were only able to just see him from afar, and learn who he was. >> and news 4 derrick ward, at tony's boxing g

chatting with folks about how they're remembers muhammad ali this morning. what are you telling you, derrick? >> reporter: well, you know, it's getting like, you know, a swap of stories about certain fights and the influence he's had on folks. muhammad ali was born back in 1942, and by the time he was 22 he was a world champion. having already gotten an olympic gold medal. going get three titles and become an icon of the sport. his influence also went beyond the ring. his conscientious objection to the war in vietnam, and which saw him get his medal stripped and then come back and win the belt back again. inside and outside the ring, especially today. >> you see these little kids running around doing little shuffles amend things, that's the reflection of how he changed the sport, like michael jordan changed basketball. muhammad ali changed boxing. >> reporter: and i c t

all around tony's gym here, there are pictures with ali, and just symbols of what he stood for, and, again, some of the young fighters that fight out of this gym will be up in baltimore today and just a whole discussion about muhammad ali what he meant to the sport and what he meant in general will be part of their discussion before that fight. live in northeast, derrick ward, ba to you, news 4. as news spread about ali's death, his fan, young, old, visited his star on the hollywood walk of fame. ali's star is different from the rest of them in that it's mounted to the wall of the dolby theater because the boxer requested that no one be able to walk on his name. ali's star was unveiled in 2002. kristin, folks in his hometown of louisville, kentucky, paying tribute to the late championing life and legacy. show you this from earlier this morning. really cool. one young fan came to the muhammad center to pray and remember ali. more people expected to pay tri

over the next several days. his funeral expected to be held in louisville. his family could announce more details as early as today. right now it is 8:35. developing now, the stafford county sheriff's office has identified the body of a 21-year-old man pulled from the rappahannock river, emilio valascos cedillo. he was found friday. he was in the water with friends when he drowned. needing your help, looking for three men who allegedly sexually assault add woman on the yellow line. the attack happened on a train between eisenhower avenue and braddock road stations around 9:30 thursday night. i want to show you what these men look like. the woman says they approached her and asked her to perform a sexual act. when she refused, they allegedly assaulted her and grabbed her body through her clothes before running off. if you recognize them, metro transit police want to hear from

to killing a woman found dead in an industrial park in maryland. christopher scheib charged with murder arrested thursday, two days after 24-year-old holly smith was found in a wooded area on industrial drive in east new market. an autopsy showed he was stabbed. police are trying to figure out whether the two knew each other. neighbors say it was something out of a movie, and this morning, police in the leesburg area are keeping watch at a home where a raid happened early friday morning. happened around 5:00 in the morning, in fact. atf and fbi on hand took several into custody. you see several coming out of the house. we don't know why the raid happened in the first place but did see on-scene members of the police gang unit which may suggest something. investigators don't want to release too up information to jeopardize what's likely to be a massive investigation. the family of a mentally

woman who died in police custody is suing fairfax county for $15 million. natasha mckenna died in february after being stunned several times by a taser at the county jail. jail guards were trying to transfer her to another facility. police say she was fighting officers who are trying to move her. this is surveillance video. those guards were cleared of criminal charges. no comment at this point about kálawsuit. same in fairfax, a high school student facing child pornography charges. this 20-year-old used a cell phone to film another student in a bath raoul stall. allegedly this happened during school hours on thursday. that student confronted the suspect and told administrators. a resource officer investigated and the boy was arrested. also friday morning parents learned about the incident from the school district.

trying to figure if illegal placement of a sign on a city sidewalk led to the death of a teenager riding had is bike. 16-year-old viatorre died thursday. he struck a commercial sign on the sidewalk, fell on to the street and was then hit by a car. the city attorney says if a business is found to be responsible for placing that sign on the sidewalk, it could face a $1,000 fine. a traffic alert for you on this saturday morning. one that's going to impact the rest of the weekend as well. maryland state highway administration has two lanes closed on the outer loop from georgia avenue to connecticut avenue. they're conducting emergency repairs to the bridge that goes over jones mill road and stony brook drive. officials say that road is in really bad condition. all lanes should be back open in time for the morning rush on monday. no later, they say, than 5:00 in the morning.

could be the key to solving a murder. how the bird may hold the secret to solving the case that is a fascinating story right there. also ahead, we're going to tell you how priceless works of art are trying to be protected in paris right now. this is because floods have put the city under water, and officials are warning the cleanup could take weeks. your time is 8:39.

it's navy's pop a top admir isis is hitting the mediterranean sea. the "uss truman" had been in the gulf. in recent days moved into the eastern mediterranean and resumed air operations. could a bird hold the key to a. >> moderator:er mystery? the family of a michigan man seems to think so. police believe his wife shot him and turned the gun on herself. she survived. now they'rei

this whole thing out and a parrot is at the center of all this. it's re-enacting what seems to maybe be an argument, they think, that might have led to the crime. >> all of a sudden this came out of the bird's mouth. >> don't shoot! >> sounds like the parrot is saying, "don't shoot." it's weird. >> yeah. >> local pet shop owner saying it's quite possible the parrot could remember seeing such a crime and now is repeating what it heard. meanwhile, state police, they have identified the wife as a suspect, and she denies killing her husband. we'll watch that one. >> fascinating. >> yeah. it will be interesting. all right. so now we turn to the weather. you may have to just keep the grill inside this weekend. lauren is tracking when thunderstorms will be in your neighborhood, and the best times to avoid the rain. >> don't turn on the grill inside. worry about that, too. >> yes. don't. continue to following death

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storms will slowly move to the east around the d.c. region. temperatures today in the low 80s. low to mid-80s tomorrow. expecting storms pretty much throughout the day. may get a break in the late morning. talk more on that timing coming up in just a few minutes before we get some sunshine next week. guys? >> all right. thanks, lauren. right now, some paris landmarks are shut down as the river's hit its highest level in decades. floodwaters from the wettest may in a century poured into the streets of paris yesterday. the worst flooding just south of the capital. firefighters had to get on to rescue boats here and help people stranded in the floodwaters, and they're warning that it could take several weeks to recede. this is a follow-up to a story we brought you earlier this week. there are these new no trespassing signs now up in ashburn the belmont subdivision. in

earlier in the week when a 19-year-old suffered serious injury after falling into the shallow water off a popular rope swing. now, neighbors told our viewer chief julie carey they worried about danger for several years hoping this latest one would lead to changes. the teenagers had been trespassing to play on the swing and they are also planning to perhaps at cameras to further discourage trespassing in that area. a piece of muhammad ali's boxing legacy featured at the new national museum of african-american history and culture. >> yeah. ali was a boxer, you know, known for having a lot to say. news 4 barbara harrison shows us now, actually something was written on his glove you'll want to see.

>> reporter: in 1964, 22-year-old boxer cassius clay had left his home in louisville, kentucky, to train at the fifth street gym in miami for his big fight against the reigning king of the ring sonny liston. when the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture opens one of the featured exhibitions will be the story of cassius clay. muhammad ali and his celebrated career. >> he has several pieces of material from the fifth street where he had trained when he was cassius clay. >> reporter: inside one of the giant processing rooms for the thousands of items being readied for the exhibition, collections chief rene anderson shows off a prize piece from a prize fighter. >> this is practice you gloves from cassius clay. it is signed and he has always been a competent person. >> i'm young, i'm handsome, i'm fast, i'm pretty and can't possibly be beat! >> reporter: cassius clay was young, handsome and in those days, he was known as the louisville lip, for what was seen as his cocky, some would call, arrogant confidence. >> it says -- from cassius clay.

january 1964. next heavyweight champion of the world. >> reporter: he felt pretty confident. >> he was confident. he's claiming what was to come. >> reporter: what he wrote on that glove proved to be prophetic. a month later against all the oddsmakers, cassius clay defeated sonny liston to become the heavyweight champion of the world. he then punched his way through famous fights with joe frazier, and george foreman, entertaining with his pummeling jabs, his prancing footwork and a personality filled with poetic wit. like his famous -- float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. . ah, love it, man, love it! >> reporter: his controversial conversion to islam changing his name to muhammad and refusal to fight in vietnam on religious grounds shut down his career for a few years. temporarily taking away his titles.

standing firm for his principles on racial justice and religious freedom, he won the respect of many. he made a comeback in the ring, regaining his lost titles, and he remains today the only man who has three times been crowned heavyweight champion of the world by the world boxing association. muhammad ali proudly earned his place in history books as one of america's greatest athletes. earning the praise of presidents and people around the world. while books tell his story, the museum hopes to do more. >> people will get excited seeing artifacts directly and indirectly associated with him as a person and the context and experience that he had. >> reporter: a small glove that tells a very big story. >> a lot of folks remembers personal aspect of his life.

ali's hand when she was in college in ohio. >> good for her. >> lauren ricketts with us now. tomorrow a weather alert day? rain today too? >> rain today too. let's not discount today. tomorrow definitely a storm, weather alert day here at storm team 4. today, storms before we get into tomorrow. headlines, rain moving in after lunch. out and about before that looking good. chances increase tr the west to the east after about the lunch hour and loop to the east as we get into the late afternoon and evening. now, sunday as david was saying, a weather alert day. both days expecting heavy rain. a lot of moisture out there. humid both days. seeing heavy rain. already have flash flood warnings -- sorry, flash flood watches. not warnings, a little i-81 in the shenandoah valley for this afternoon and this evening because of so much rain over the past couple days. not seeing anything on the storm t

temperatures around 70 degrees. take it into the low 80s today. after about, ah, 1:00, 2:00, watching the western suburb. d.c. still dry for the first part of the afternoon and here comes the rain. heavy at times. again, heavy downpours of rain. a few chances of rain overnight. maybe a break tomorrow morning and then we'll get more rain as we head into tomorrow afternoon and then with the cold front, could see stronger storms and some fear weather possible for tomorrow. the impact, very high for tomorrow with the storms, and moderate for today unless you're along the shenandoah valley. a hail threat, small, but winds and again heavy rain. we're looking for low 80s today. mid-80s tomorrow. again, weather alert day with rain storms pretty much through the day not moving in until lunch. monday looking good. another slight chance of showers tuesday, but ending out the next workweek. >> liking that. thanks, lauren. break

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expected to show up. going to run through sunday at the washington convention center. your time, 8:56, four things to know. boxing great muhammad ali has died at the age of 74. his family is planning a funeral in his hometown of louisville, kentucky. dames could be announced as early as today. the first phase of metro's spacetrack program is underway, affecting the orange and silver lines between boylston and east falls church. prepare for single tracking and reduced service on those lines. stafford sheriff's office identified the body of a 21-year-old pulled from the rappahannock river, e-mailio have a las coase cedillo. he was in the river with friends when he drowned. and northeast d.c., officers thought the victim was stabbed to death, but saying that there could have been, this person could have been, rather, injured in "some other way." interesting story. we'll continue to

and lauren ricketts tracking the weather. thunderstorms moving in after lunchtime. a little while before looking to the west are and moving from in the west southwest and moving to the east. that happens this afternoon. packing a heavy punch. flash flood watches along the shenandoah valley, heavy rain tonight and overnight and storms tomorrow afternoon and high winds, severe weather. weather alert day. watching severe storms tomorrow. >> a good day to have that storm team 4, nbc washington app. >> there you go. >> have that. keep it close. >> yes, and your umbrella. >> right. that's all for "news4 today." nianks for joi

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