reit now, a cooler night across our region, but some of you are still feeling that mugginess, storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper has the changesheading your way as we speak. hope would be gone for good, plus is donald trump changing his approach? what we are learning is one of the most controversial topics of his campaign so far. >> and we start with a live look outside. the clouds look like they're fading away giving us a clear shot of union station and the best part, our weather team says

get better. so let's start with those changes, shall we? when you wake up tomorrow storm team 4, and it will be new ask fresh for the first day of school. >> yes, erica. just in time and a reason to look forward to monday and we have a lot of kids going back to school and anne arundel and frederick counties here in the district and here's what you can expect tomorrow morning and 69 degrees around 6, by 8:00 a.m. and the sunglasses and gorgeous by 9:00 a.m. and a temperature around 74 and a fabulous start and here's a look at temperatures right now and 77 in washington, but i am still tracking some mugginess across the area and i'll let you know when it will be falling in your neighborhood and also

more storms can be ravabling the midwest, and tornadoes are in indiana and michigan this weekend. in another part of the country, flash floods claimed homes and businesses. more on that still ahead. it is the end of summer break for thousands of kids in our area and, maryland and the district and for the first time one school is opening its doors to boys open. news 4's darcy spencer reports from northeast d.c. >> we are at the ron brown college preparatory high school here in northeast washington which is set to welcome students for the very first time on monday morning. in fact thshgs is where mayor muriel bowser will hold her back to school campaign. it's the district's first

single-sex public high school and it will welcome 150 ninth grade boys from at-risk backgrounds in d.c. we can see there is still a lot of work to do inside with construction still under way and ladders. the school system says that the school is ready to open, but it is a three-year construction project. the school is opening with some controversy. the aclu has said this discriminates against at-risk girls and one member of council had questioned its legality and the d.c. attorney general has signed off on the school saying it doesn't violate any laws. the focus here at the school will be on character building and academic curiosity and service. also on monday. frederick county maryland kids head back to the classroom and prince george's county schools start on tuesday and loudoun and montgomery go back on august 29th and fairfax doesn't go back until after labor day. the mayor's

the principal of this new school gets under way at 10:00 monday morning. in northeast, darcy spencer, news 4. weave got back to school covered on news 4 from what to wear to the bus stop to your up-to-the-minute traffic reports. wake up with news 4 today starting at 4:26 in the morning. nbc 4 is working for you in the community and sticking with the back to school theme, we're talking about backpacks. applause for the folks who finished the backpacks for kids fun run. nbc 4 and the district running collective got together for this event. that organization uses running to make a positive impact in the community. a group of runners braved the rain and gathered at yards park at the capital river front and laced them up and ran a couple of miles. >> we're working with nbc 4 and their charity backpacks for kids where they doan eight to the backpacks, different schools

so we're hoping that we can bring a massive amount of backpacks out here with the good calls. >> agua301 offered 10% off the bill for those willing to be generous today. closing ceremonies of the rio olympics are just wrapping up and gold medal gymnast simone biles got a very special honor during the ceremony. >> simone biles making her way out here. >> team usa chose her to be the flagbearer as all of the teams marched into maracana stadium. simone won five medals during the games, four of them gold. she described the experience as a dream of a lifetime saying to be chosen to carry the u.s. flag during closing ceremonies was an incredible honor. >> and the commander in chief firing off this tweet. couldn't be prouder of team usa. your determination and passion inspired m

you carried that flag tonight simone biles, end quote. here is a look now at the final medal count. team usa topping the scoreboard with 121 medals, 46 of them gold. china coming in second with 70 medals, 26 of them gold and great britain rounds out the medal count with 67 medals. we will have much more coverage of the rio games ahead in sports. back here at home, we are learning new details about two murder investigations in prince georges county. police tell us damian raulet was shot and killed this morning and they found him near upper marlboro and he later died at the hospital and police have not released a motive for his murder. prince georges are looking into another murder investigation. the victim, a young rapper. someone shot and killed 18-year-old douglas brooks along park terrace drive early sunday morning. fans and radio personalities who knew him as

trying to cope with his loss. he performed at wpgc's birthday bash. d.j. res talked to us today about his dedication to his music and fans. >> to us, he was dirty swipy. to his mother he was douglas brooks. he was just her baby and she no longer can see his face anymore. she no longer can hug him or kiss him and tell him that i love you anymore because somebody felt the need to cut his life short. >> prince georges county police dakotaives are working on a motive for his murder. now to decision 2016 and the campaign trail. donald trump's campaign suggesting this weekend that his policy on undocumented immigrants may not be set in stone, but the republican presidential nominee himself staying on message. nbc's casey hunt has our report. >> report:

>> thank you very much. >> last night the outsider calling for a more inclusive gop. >> the gop is the party of abraham lincoln. >> it won him praise from the party chairman. >> think he's been on message. he's shown maturity as a candidate. >> trump's new campaign manager even suggested that trump might walk back parts of his law and order immigration proposal. >> we have many illegals in the country and we have to get them out. in an immigration approximately see speech set for thursday. >> will that plan include a deportation force? >> to be determined. >> trump supportes are trying to make hillary clinton the focus, raising questions about the clinton foundationy decision to see if he gets elected before it stops accepting foreign donations. they're prepared to make an unprecedented step should hillary become president. don donald trump refuses to disclose his debts and obligations around the

clinton herself spending the weekend behind closed doors, raising money and touching down on sunday with a private celebrity fun raiser with cher, trying to widen the $20 million cash advantage her campaign has over trump. leaving the focus trump's, forts to get himself back on track. casey hunt, nbc news, washington. >> okay. so imagine walking out of your home to find out someone has stolen the wheels from your car. all four of them. one woodbridge man this topped him and the people responsible knew exactly what they were doing because they didn't even leave fingerprints behind. wtop says someone took the wheels off his chevy tahoe that was parked in his driveway. this happened last sunday. he says he found the truck on bricks and morgan says a nearby neighborhood was hit just the week before. he believes this is the work of professionals. as the kids head back to school this week,

school zones and consider yourself warned if you drive in alexandria in addition to the five speed cameras in the city a new one is going live tomorrow and you will see it on duke street near west taylor run parkway. if you are caught speeding there you will get a warning notice and after sent september 22nd you will get a ticket. from virginia to the beaches of brazil, another party wraps up tonight in rio, but we know you want to relive those amazing moments that we've seen over the past two weeks. stay with us for the best of the best ahead. and later, the mess after lines of storms cut towns across the midwest and we'll show you the damage as residents sta to clean rtup

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a quiet night as we look live at copacabana beach. the rio olympics wrapped up not long ago with the excitement and yoi that it started with. what a journey that we've been on. not only covering the olympic games in rio, but watching the spectacle of it all. nbc's brian mooar has a look at the games of the olympiad. >> team usa scored these on the court and it was gold. for carmelo anthony, the emotional end of a 12-year journey. >> i've seen the worst, and i've seen the best, and i stuck with it. we stuck with it. ♪ ♪ >> in ni

ceremonies, allen wins an intermittent, to a dazzling display of sound and rhythm. all of it celebrating the world's greatest athletes. after weeks of fierce competition, a chance to wind down, joined together and celebrate an experience that is theirs for a lifetime, medal or no. >> who better to lead team usa than simone biles, the 4'8" gymnast now an undeniable big deal and a great hope for games to come. brian mooar, nbc news, rio. and we went ahead and compiled a list of the very best moments of the rio olympics been some of them aren't just the ones that made history. go to the nbc washington app to check all of those out. one of the more infamous moments of the rio games involved american swimmer ryan lochte. he admitted to making up a story about an armed robbery to cover up a night of partying and vandalizing a gas station. tomorrow morning on "today" you can hear more of matt lauer's exsi

part of having a gun pointed to his head. he admitted to still being intoxicated when he gave an interview to billy bush. >> that didn't happen and that's why i overexaggerated that part. >> why did you do that? >> i don't know why. you know, it was still hours after the incident happened. i was still intoxicated. >> lochte and the three teammates who were with him that night could still face sanctions from usa swimming and the international olympic committee. more of matt lauer's exclusive interview monday morning on "today." severe weather hitting communities hard from the midwest to texas. for more than half a dozen reports of tornados to flash flooding, ravaging homes and businesses as nbc's morgan radford reports, the nightmare may not be over. >> of up to 70 miles per hour, whipping through america's heartland with two reports of

two more in indiana. this as heavy rains pounded the pavement in michigan. seven possible tornado touchdowns reported there overnight. >> it was just like the movies. i have watched dwoet the wizard of oz" and i know what a twister looks like. >> the twister landing south of grand rapids, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines, leaving traffic lights dangling in the wind as first responders race to help victims. >> took out the swing set and took out my garden and it's scary. you don't know what to do and don't know where we're staying. >> reporter: families forced away through seven inches of rain. their cars stranded after that same storm system triggered unprecedented flooding in kansas. in texas, the national weather service warning some residents to move to higher ground as flash floods damaged homes and businesses just south of san antonio. >> this is probably the most rain i've seen at one time. >> reporter: often, rising at

flood flooded. now south texas brace for example more damage with the possibility of heavy downpours overnight. meanwhile, families across the country stand among shattered homes and ruined neighborhoods, putting the pieces back together. that's not all. check out this dust storm blanketing the phoenix, arizona area, and at one point visibility was less than a quarter of a mile and that included a busy part of interstate 10. a dust cloud that size takes several hours to clear. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> no severe weather in our area today and we did have heavy rain moving through the afternoon hours and i was following it on twitter as well as facebook all afternoon. the rain and thunderstorms with a cold front and it's going to bring the best weather that we've had in weeks to our workweek at least to the early

the next chance of rain is later in the day on friday and just a shower or thunderstorm possible, and nothing too impressive and already thinking about next weekend and it will be hot and not too humid and right now it is looking dry. i'm showing you the dew point temperatures and we're not talking about this too much, but worth mentioning tonight. dew point is how comfortable, how humid or not humid it is outside and when we say it's humid we're looking at a dew point temperature 65 or higher and it's still humid in the district and in the pawtuxet river it's still muggy and notice back here, the dew points are in the 50s and that's spectacular and that's windows open weather and the great news, that's moving into our area overnight tonight and we'll continue to track really comfortable air monday, tuesday as well as wednesday. so we're starting out tomorrow at 69 degrees and with low humidity, dare i say it might feel crisp out there especially with how muggy and mild it's been lately. you'll

sunglasses tomorrow so 64 in frederick where students are heading back to school. 69 in annapolis where we also have students heading back to school tomorrow. by lunchtime, it's perfect and 80 degrees such a nice temperature, and comfortable temperature and you'll really enjoy it. breezy throughout the day tomorrow and plenty of sunshine and a high of 85 and we hit that about 5:00 in the afternoon and if you're walking the dog or going for a jog after work, the weather really cooperating. so the bus stop tomorrow morning looking great. exercise, whether you want to go early or late. it doesn't matter as far as the weather is concerned and lunch outside is comfortable and if you're firing up the grill expect temperatures in the 70s and 80s throughout the evening. the humidity levels monday through thursday in the nice range, as it starts to friday it will feel humid outside and those levels go right back down

it's hot and humid out there will be on friday and here's a look at your exclusive ten-day forecast and a high tomorrow of 85 and a bit breezy and our high today, 91. some numbers for you and we've hit 90 degrees or higher, 45 times this year and average is about 38. so we're above average. on tuesday, mid-80s and wednesday mid to upper 80s and thursday a high of around 91 and it starts to feel hot and not humid and it's a dry heat on thursday. friday, erica, a chance of late-day thunderstorms and a high of 92. >> thanks, amelia. today was the last day of the arlington county fair. the festivities have been going on at the thomas jefferson community center since wednesday. the total attendance isn't it yet, but in recent years they've reached 74,000 and it's touted as one of the largest free events in the east coast. in addition to funnel cakes and

still ahead, more gold for maryland natives and one star's emotional reaction up next. i had a wonderful time tonight. me too! call me tomorrow?

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this is the xfinity sportsdesk. >> after a loss today, i hope they can get a good night's rest and get back out tomorrow. they have a big day tomorrow. >> exciting week for both the nationals and the orioles and it should be a fun series between these two teams. the beltway series starts tomorrow in baltimore and both the nationals and orioles coming off losses and it's clear the os need this series more than the nats. baltimore drops three straight games and they were in the fight with other teams for the wild card spot. they dominate one of the worst divisions in all of baseball. final count today in a four-game set against atlanta and the nats going for the sweep. top of the

a run. bryce harper, this just a monster shot. he knocks the cover off this baseball. six rbis in his last three games and that's home run number 22 on the season and the nationals, they're up 4-0. later in the sixth. chris isaac, he gives the nates some cushion. a line drive home run right there and the nats take a 6-3 lead and we skip ahead though, at the rain delay and they come back to tie it up an extra inning and bottom of the tenth, jays peterson and this is how the game would end in knockoff fashion and they avoid sweep in a 7-6 victory. >> orioles hosting the astros and over four and a half hours of rain delays in this game when they finally got going and bottom of the fourth. birds down a run and the scope takes care of that and launches the ball into left center into the bull pen and 19th long ball. th

carlos perrera, chris davis can't make a play off his glove and two-run double and mark trumbo, had the league-leading 27 home run and the astros beat the os 5 to 3. taking on serbia, and head coach, coach k. and kevin durant sent them off right. second quarter, usa up 8. later in the quarter, on the drive, no one can slow him down, big time flush. he had 30 points, a game high as the us accus sshgs ashgusa crui. carmelo anthony was there for it all and afterward he was very emotional. >> i just want to say thank you for allowing me to be one of the leaders and not just of this team, but of our country. despite of everything that's going on right now in our

country, we've got to be united, and i'm glad i did what i did. i stepped up to the challenge and this is what it's about. america will be great again. i believe that. we have a lot of work to do, but it's one step at a time. i'm glad we represented in the fashion that we did. got to root for carmelo anthony this season. to mls soccer and dc united trailed the red bulls in the second half and just after scoring, a corner kick for united here and steve bear balm with the head tore patrick mullins who heads it home and that's how the game would end and d.c. united with the 2-2 tie against new york. >> the capitals, nicholas back strom at the community resource center donated a check for $23,000. the players gave money for each win the capital his this season and the community-based social change program helping d.c.'s at-risk youth. grea

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this year is the 100th anniversary of the national park service and it's celebrating. today people got to join park police officers and park rangers on a bike ride learning about east potomac park. george washington established the park police, the leader of the national park service that guards our mono ups and the memorials on the national mall. and that about wraps it up for us tonight at 11:00. the olympics are done. we've got last check of the forecast before we say good night. >> good night. on time for once. >> it's going to be beautiful tomorrow. a little bit breezy. a welcome breeze. plenty of sunshine and 85 for a high. we've been at 90 or higher for about two weeks now so it's going to feel refreshing. tuesday, really nice, and

nats first and or knowles in d.c. wonderful weather for the games and i'll be there thursday night and of course, we know the orioles are going to win, right and a late-day shower or thunderstorm. what do you think, jason? >> i'll be there all week. >> i think they're going split. >> thank you, guys. good luck to everybody out there, and i think we've got some beauty shots to show you from copacabana beach as we leave you tonight. thank you very much for join us. we hope you enjoyed the olympics as much as we have. have a wonderful ening andev

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michael phelps is going to do it again! they reach for gold. >> he did it! at every olympics there are memorable characters, remarkable achievements, moments of exultation. over the last 17 days and nights, these games have provided all of that. new stars ascending boldly to the stage alongside legends somehow finding ways to enhance