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figures of the 20th century. is metro's massive maintenance plan on track? we're talking to riders. senator bernie sanders making a major prediction about the race for the white house. after several days in the hospital, muhammad ali died of septic shock. he'll be buried friday in louisville, kentucky, after a procession through the streets. nbc's chris pallone has new reaction to the death of the greatest of all-time. >> the tributes and memorials for muhammad ali are growing in louisville, kentucky, where the champ grew up and learned to box. >> one thing he showed the people, you can come from the gutter and rise above anything in front of you. >> flags are lowered to half-staff as people mourn the death of the champ and a crusader for civil rights,

>> it's like he reached his hands out to everybody. didn't matter the race, creed or color. >> didn't belong to the world, but he was our guy in our city. >> the outpouring of support stretches across the country. in hollywood, people are leaving flowers at ali's star on the walk of fame. among his fans, kareem abdul-jabbar. >> he was always the life of the party. very much his own man. a very funny guy. >> in a statement, president obama said muhammad ali shook up the world and the world is better for it. we all are. next week, former president clinton will eulogize him at his funeral. >> actor michael j. fox dwru up as an admirer of the champ. but their lives crossed when fox was diagnosed with parkinson's. >> met him and joined with him

man of the fight irs he beat are paying respects today. >> what a phenomenon. something you won't see again. i can tell you that. >> we lost the greatest. that word, that name fit him to a t. he was the greatest. >> muhammad ali will be buried friday in louisville. chris pallone, nbc news, new york. ali touched so many lives throughout new york and in our region. local photographer fred watkins counts ali among his most interesting subjects. watkins says he was amazed being around the champ. even as ali's physical abilities began to diminish from parkinson's disease, he remabd a warrior until the end. he recalls the last shoot with him as the disease was taking hold. >> his hands were in a shape where we had to work and manipulate. always didn't want you to feel sorry for

he was always do something funny to make you laugh. >> watkins says ali always had time to shake people's hands and sign autographs. now, your storm team 4 forecast. >> the national weather service has issued a flash flood watch until 5:00 a.m. for southern fauquier and stafford counties and spotsylvania and culpepper counties and areas further back to the west in green. as we track very heavy rain on storm team 4 radar. moving northeast into the area overnight tonight. now, the trend is the thunderstorms sinking south more towards the richmond area. we will be tracking some showers here. here's the latest. as we take a closer look. d.c. metro area still dry. this rain moving in within the next few hours. by midnight in fauquier and stafford counties, notice bright colors here at 2:00 a.m. in fredericksburg. that's heavy rain. by 5:00 amtraking some showers d

conditions. but storms strong to severe will impact the area later in the day tomorrow. i'll have more on that timing and what you'll be dealing with coming up in my full forecast. erika? >> thanks, amelia. we have a developing story near laurel park police. prince george's fire are on the scene of an accident south of the powder mill road exit. three vehicles are involved and we're being told that one woman had to be extricated from the vehicle. police say she's got life-threatening injuries. the parkway is closed at powder mill road. we want to go live to virginia right now where the first phase of metro safe track plan is under way. it means a lot of changes for a lot of people on the orange and the silver line, especially west of the boston area. that's where darcy spencer is with a look at how things are going. okay, darcy, day one. how was

the riders? you get two different answers there. we are live at the boston metro station where the track work is continuing underground. take a look over here. you can see that there are metro vehicles out here. you've got this van. take a look on the other side. you have more metro vehicles. this is a safety vehicle. something we're not used to seeing. 11:00 on a saturday night. all signs that metro's safe track is under way. sparks fly as the improvement project begins on the tracks. here at the ballston station, workers are doing maintenance work. it's the first day riders got a feel for what's to come. >> it takes me like two hours to get to work now. it's a really long commute. as long as they're fixing it, i'm for it. >> the first leg of the massive year-long project started between ballston and east falls church. you can e

work. heavy equipment being put in place long the tracks to get ready for extensive track work. >> took me longer to get to work. i had to leave an hour earlier. like from home to work. i still barely made it on time. it's usually a 20-minute trip. it took much longer. >> trains are single tracking on the orange and silver lines as the work is being done. already riders complaining about longer waits and longer ride times. >> i mean, the long ride, it's better. just to get to where we need to go. >> reporter: that's right. one of the riders told me he does plan to take ub ir next week. he just can't take a chance of being late and losing his job. of course, we checked in with metro tonight. they say, you know what, it looks like things went pretty smoothly today. but monday, it could be a totally different story. erika? >> i can only imagine with the

spencer. thank you very much. you can find our complete guide to safe track service changes by searching safe track in the nbc washington app. next at 11:00, a local man attacked his fiance and what he allegedly did next is running him into more trouble. fierce flames burning dangerously close to homes in southern california. firefighters desperately trying to evacuate families before it's too late. hundreds of small dogs rescued from a home in what investigators are calling the worst hoarding situation they've ever seen.

as many as three separate brush fires burning across southern california. they're burning north of los angeles. you can see the fire burning close to a recreation center. this is a fairly populated area. a number of neighborhoods have been evacuated already. meteorologists say scorching temperatures and high winds are helping spread these fires. a man facing assault charges and could even face arson charges after this fire at an apartment in langley park. both the police and the fire departments were called to the building on 15th avenue last night. police say they got a call from a woman who says her fiance was assaulting her. she got away and then police believe the man set the building on fire. police detained the suspect nearby. he'll be taken for a mental evaluation. hera

concerns. but that is not the only severe weather risk. amelia is up next with more on sunday's weather alert day. see how admirers, rivals and even presidents are remembing muhamerma

reaction pouring in tonight. celebrities who share a special bond with ali are sharing their thoughts on his passing. if you want to be anonymous, walk with muhammad in l.a. >> he belongs to the art.

belongs to science. what a phenomenon. >> it was like watching somebody you couldn't decide, is this guy a boxer or a ballerina. >> really restrict his legacy and what he's done for boxing. >> quote, i saw your wife. you're not as dumb as you look. end quote. muhammad ali said that to the president of the philippines before the thriller in manila. for more famous quotes, you can open our app and search ali quotes. >> new at 11:00, nearly 300 dogs rescued from a gnome new jersey. officers found the dogs living in what they described as the worst hoarding situation they had ever seen. authorities say the dogs were sitting on bookshelves, living under beds. even between walls. they say most of the dogs were well taken care of but extremely

the owners are expected to face charges. this story is getting shared a lot on our nbc washington facebook page. to see more videos of the rescued dogs, you can go to our facebook page. senator bernie sanders has news for hillary clinton. the democratic national convention will be contested. sanders predicted today that no one will have enough pledged delegates to clinch the nomination after the primary season ends. tonight, hillary clinton won the virgin islands caucus and took home seven delegates. donald trump tweeted out praise for muhammad ali. tomorrow will be a storm team 4 weather alert day. we'll be closely watching the time barriers between 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. i'll be in and on twitter and facebook and keeping you updated on news 4.

through the area ahead of a cold front after that seemingly gorgeous weather. we'll have plenty of sunshine, comfortable temperatures and more importantly, low humidity. we'll finally lose the mugginess. not the case tomorrow. a moderate to high risk that leads to flash flooding concerns. we could be dealing with high winds and any thunderstorms that could produce some wind damage across the area. a low to moderate risk for son-in-law severe hail as well. we can't rule out an isolated tornado. but the main focus tomorrow afternoon on into the early evening hours is going to be very heavy rainfall and strong gusty winds. here's the latest with future weather. 70 and mostly cloudy skies. there's the chance of a shower but we're really dry from the mid-morning hours into the midday and even early afternoon hours. we'll have much more dry time tomorrow than i'll be tracking storms. but notice, once we start to hit 2:00, 3:00 p.m., we track some very i

4:00 in frederick, fauquier counties. once we hit 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., we start to see heavy rain move into the d.c. metro area. at 6:30, future weather has a line of strong storms impacting the district. prince george's and charles counties. by 7:30, still tracking areas of heavy rain around fredericksburg, and southern maryland. by 8:00, 9:00 p.m., the strong activity is east of the area. we'll be mainly dry at that point. and lowering humidity. currently in the 70s. 75 degrees in washington. waking up tomorrow morning to a temperature of 71. with a shower possible. some limited sunshine. when it's not raining. that will help to fuel the storms in the afternoon around early evening hours. a high of 84 degrees. road conditions for the morning and midday hours looking good. for the afternoon and evening hours, we will be dealing with ponding of water on roads. a heads up there. after that, though, monday, 86.

plenty of sunshine and more importantly, the humidity levels on monday go from uncomfortable down to pleasant. it will stay like that for the remainder of the workweek. there's the chance of a late-day shower on tuesday. a high of 83. 70s for highs wednesday and thursday. friday looking nice, 84. next weekend, also looking great. temperatures in the 80s. we've we've got breaking news in woodbridge. police are telling us that somebody has been shot at an apartment complex on potomac heights place. this is chose to a shopping center. the man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. we'll bring you new details on the nbc washington app and on "news4 today." still to come, muhammad ali not just a legend in the boxing ring. we're going to hear how he impacted some of the

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chris miles from the csn studios. there were two important numbers for stephen strasburg today. 10 and 1,000. he had a chance to get ten wins on the season. he have also had a schans to notch 1,000 career strikeouts. it was possible for him to get both. today he only reached one of the numbers. strasburg still undefeated as he faced the reds this afternoon. bottom of the fifth, strasburg does pick up strikeout number 1,000. he blows one past james straily. sixth inning not as good.

him. home run of the row. reds jump ahead. 3-2. we know about strasburg's injury history. he grabs his right leg after throwing 97 pitches. but it was just a cramp in his calf. it will be okay. offense trying to help out strasburg in the eighth. danny espinoza ties things up. the reds have the last laugh in the bottom of the inning. adam duvall puts the kids to bed with this bomb. reds win it 6-3. >> he had a cramp in his calf. he says he's had it before. he gets dehydrated a little bit and so we're just glad it's not a calf strain or a calf pull. they're working on him in the training m.

make it four in a row as they take on the yankees. orioles down in the seventh. pedro alvarez going the other way. that's out of here. baltimore down. 7-3. still in the seventh. the rally continues. two on for adam jones. that's three outs. orioles down by just one. but the luck runs out in the ninth. nolan ronald goes down looking. orioles fall 8-6. it was around this time last night that the world lost one of the greatest athletes of all-time. muhammad ali passed away at the age of 74 on friday evening. his legacy is one of the greatest boxers of all-time and one of the most influential people of all-time. lebron james is preparing for game 2 of the nba finals tomorrow. he took time to reflect on what ali meant

>> like muhammad ali passes away, just very emotional. it's also gratifying to know that a guy, one man will sacrifice so much in his individual life knowing that it would better the next generation of men and women after him. for an athlete like myself today, without muhammad ali i wouldn't be sitting up here talking in front of you guys. he is the g.o.a.t. he's the greatest of all-time. it had zero to do with his accomplish ams inside the ring. >> game 3 of the stanley cup finals. sharks looking to avoid falling into a 3-0 hole. sharks down one early. justin brawn with the wrister and the goalie never sees it. final minute of the second. it's the pens on the attack.

pittsburgh on top. third period, shark power play. it's a former kappa lert. joe ward. his seventh of the playoff. ties it up at 2-2. sends it to overtime. that's currently your score. game still in progress. college world series, regional action. defending champions, uva taking on ecu. that's smith. he takes the shot solo to right. can't get to it. 5-3. virginia. wahoos in trouble in the ninth. two on. travis watkins. that's your ball game. pirates score five runs. they win it 8-6. to the rally region. navy looking to avoid elimination. taking on st. mary's. bottom of the eighth. joey fiscal being. he somehow makes it work. st. mary's ties it up at 5-5. extra innings it is. this is the top of the 13

travis blue. that's clutch. go ahead run coming around. he is safe. midshipman survive. they win by a final of 8-5. erika, big sports day on nbc4 on sunday. andy murray setting to square off against djokovic in the french open. >> chris, thank you very much. you have about half of your day tomorrow before things get interesting. >> between

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ago. let's meet the candidates. first up, former secretary o state hillary clinton. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello! hello, brooklyn! whoo! i cannot wait to be your next president -- if i'm elected, of course. not getting ahead of myself -- in public. for 15 years.'ve been president >> and vermont senator bernie sanders. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah, good, good, good for you! good for you. good for you. yes. i am bernie sanders. i'm a voice for regular people. i'm not fancy. i'm not the elite. i put on my pants just like all of you. i sit on the edge of the bed and jane pulls them up for me. >> well, thank you both for making time to be here.