how it will impact your weekend plans. also, the growing memorial for the 5-month-old baby run over with its mother in the crosswalk and how the community is hoping this will lead to changes. but we're going to begin with the latest on hurricane hermine, which strengthened to a hurricane just less than an hour ago. the storm's path is unpredictable but it is bearing down on florida. >> this video, an earlier look of how it's already making an impact. it will be the first hurricane to make landfall, if it does, in 11 years. >> and hermine could have an impact in this area for labor day weekend. doug and amelia are tracking it. >> it just became a hurricane as of around 3:00 in the afternoon when the air force went out and -- the hurricane hunters went in there and found 75-mile-an-hour n

be labor day weekend. >> we've been talking about the three main regions, the beaches, here, in the mountains. it looks like the beaches will be the hardest hit. >> if you have any plans, make sure you stay with us as the forecast continues to change. you notice the eye is very well formed here. it's just formed about an hour to two hours ago and it's tightening. it's continuing to strengthen. you can see the yellows here. that's the eye wall starting to really get in place and that's going to allow the storm to strengthen even more as it makes its way towards the coast of florida. it's producing tornado warnings. normally a land-falling hurricane or tropical storm produces landfall. hurricane watches are out. look at this warning right here to the south of daytona beach. this is something else that we're watching for. not just high winds and flooding but a possibility of flooding in

so it will impact tallahassee later on this afternoon and into the evening and then moves to the north. the latest locations, again, just to the south of the tallahassee area. winds are 75 miles an hour moving north-northeast at 14. on this track, it will move close to the coast and then off our coast. yesterday it looked like it would move more inland. it will still impact the beaches. we've got more showers and thunderstorms developing in our area right now not related to hermine and amelia has the latest on those. >> exactly, doug. before hermine moves into our area which looks to be later saturday, we still have a few days to get to. here's what we're tracking on storm team 4 radar. widely scattered showers. you can see heavy rainfall with the brighter colors here. it's moving to the south and east. currently, we're talking about temperatures right now around 80 degrees. ou

scattered showers, an isolated thunderstorm. we have the bruce spring teen concert, can't rule out rain for that. tomorrow, looking really nice. again, doug, all eyes are on hermine and how it's going to impact us over the holiday weekend. >> and where it sits off the coast, just how close to the coast it is, all of those questions coming in to play. much more on this throughout the hour and right on through the next couple of hours through 7:00 here on nbc 4. guys? >> thanks. we'll see you in a bit. hermine was making its presence felt. rising water swamped roads and forced some homeowners out of their houses. sarah rosario has more on how people are getting ready. >> reporter: with rough surf, gray skies and empty beaches, residents living along florida's gulf coast are preparing for hurricane hin

make landfall overnight. >> move things inside. >> reporter: they are ignoring the mandatory evacuation. their town is at the center of the storm's cone. >> it's going to be 50-mile-an-hour winds. we've done everything we can prepare. >> reporter: floridians in 51 counties now in a state of emergency are making the same preparation, gathering sandbags to keep the water out. but in some parts of the tampa bay area, it wasn't enough. pictures from the air showed just some of the flooding. >> this storm, hurricane, is life threatening. >> today, the governor of florida closed government buildings giving people more time to prepare. downed trees and downed power lines may be some problems, to name a few. and while some are already dealing with a mess to clean up, others are bearing down, prepared for what's to come. for people who cos

the evacuation orders, local officials say they won't get help if they call 911. we are told they don't want to deter emergency responders. it -- sarah rosario, nbc news. and we have information about the headstart program in prince george's county. three employees have been fired. this all stems from incidents that led to the county's program losing $6.5 million in a federal grant. the program was under a federal investigation for months. an alleged abuse of students and in one incident, students were forced to hold objects over their head for a long period of time, punishment for inapprote

"today, i have taken disciplinary action against six individuals. including certified teachers, classroom aides and an administrative supervisor. they will no longer be in front of any children." blue ribbons are going up across the landsdown community as an suv hit a mother as she was crossing a street with her 5-month-old baby in a stroller. the baby did not survive. >> i can't even imagine what they are going through right now. >> david duculver is out there. neighbors are hoping that this tragedy brings some change. >> reporter: that is right. you can see

memorial. they are expressing grief for the young life lost. people hope that what happened here brings change along what you can see is a busy stretch. >> there just seems to be a lot of near misses and it's scary. >> reporter: mom, beverly smart, hoping safety can be the good that comes from tragedy. she's lived in landsdowne for 11 years and says the traffic has gotten worse. the tragic event made more devastating by images of the aftermath. a mom having just dropped off her older child at school, pushing a stroller across riverside parkway. for some reason, deputies say the driver of this suv turned and hit both of them. >> the visibility may not be what it should

>> reporter: this man tells me he's been on the phone with v-d.o.t. to discuss possible changes here. >> you can see the issues but you also have a lot of hills here and curves. as you go to the west, you have three more unsignalized crosswalks, all of which have limited visibility. >> reporter: on the nbc washington facebook page, a lot of you have asked about charges. they are still working with the commonwealth attorney's office to determine if they will go forward with any charges in this case. that could come days from now. in the meantime, much needed good news. the mother involved in this incident here is in stable condition tonight, wendy. >> david culver, thank you. yet another deadly pedestrian accident just before 9:00 last night at bells mill road in potomac. the injuries were initially de

but police confirmed that he died at the hospital. he was walking when a driver in a lexus struck him. no word whether he was in a crosswalk. it's a shameful part of georgetown university's history. the school comes to terms with the fact that it sold slaves to stay afloat. how it's trying to right that wrong. and adam tuss has more on

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we're tracking hurricane hermine but also tracking what is happening in our area right now. if you're heading out this afternoon and evening, we've got sunshine and that's allowed storms to develop back to the west. take a look at the storms making their way down to the north in baltimore, annapolis, frederick, northern loudoun county, back towards jefferson county and clark county. this blue line will make its way down to the south and east and will be in the d.c. metro region around 6:00 and these may become stronger. we'll continue to watch it coming up in five minutes. the latest on hermine and what it means to your labor day weekend. >> doug, thank you. breaking news right now in the district where two people have been shot. a man and a boy have been shot. the boy critically injured. we don't know how old he is. we just got this video in to our newsroom. this is happening in the 1900 block of 16th street southeast. homicide detectives have been called to the sc

to gather details about this double shooting. but it's resilience that gets you through. the people successful are not the people who succeed all the time. it's the people who can recover when they fail. and remember that. >> first lady michelle obama sharing great words of advice to students at howard university and she shared the stage with late night seth myers and that's nick cannon who is a freshman at howard. the first lady's visit was a surprise. part of the first lady's reach higher initiative urging students to go to college. a teacher seriously injured in a mike accident roaches a significant milestone in his recovery. how he surprised his students today. and what caused that unmanned rocket to burst in to flames. the dramaticnew

we're learning about new video when a spacex rocket exploded on its launch pad here at cape canaveral, florida. take a look. this is unbelievable. nasa says spacex was conducting a test firing of an unmanned rocket when something obviously went horribly wrong this morning after the first explosion sent flames and black smoke into the air, there was a second blast about 20 minutes later. the test wasin

planned saturday launch to carry a satellite into orbit. no one was injured. we're learning more about the stabbing of a woman in the wheaton area. that was yesterday along upton drive not far from the mall. darcy spencer has more on what we learned today. >> reporter: according to charging documents, dakota brothers stabbed the teenager who was pregnant with his baby multiple times in the upper body and neck because he is not ready to be a father. on wednesday afternoon, the 19-year-old victim agreed to meet brothers here along a path in kensington. documents show they had consensual sex but then he strangled her unconscious. he told detectives he wanted the victim and the baby to die. >> the child is alive. the child is in a dire situation in a local hospital. >> reporter: the victim was about six months pregnant. she was rushed to the hospial

delivered by caesarean section had to be revived. she's still clinging to life. the baby's father turned 18 before the crime and the victim is a senior in high school. the judge set bond at $5 million. why the defendant's attorney was hoping for a much smaller bond. in rockville, darcy spencer, news4. right now, georgetown university is addressing a dark chapter in the school's history, its role in the slave trade nearly two decades ago georgetown sold -- much longer ago. two centuries ago, we apologize for that typo. 272 slaves to pay off some debts. georgetown's president is live-streaming their formal

amends. georgetown sold men, women and children from a maryland plantation sending them to indiana. the sale raised $115,000 that kept the school afloat. the descendents of those slaves will get preferred admissions and it's building a memorial to honor the slaves who were sold. the school is not offering any scholarships or assistance to the descendents. we are returning to our weather now. we now have a hurricane in florida that is going to be getting close to us. doug, what kind of impact will it have up here? >> the good news is, if you live from d.c. up to the west of i-95, it won't have as much of an impact as we talked about yesterday. we talked about the potential to change course and it's still trying. that's why you have to stay tuned with this forecast. what's happening outside right now, some storms have begun to develop across our region. these are not

hurricane. look at this line back to the west, frederick down towards blooma, watch this line. we may see it increase in intensity as it moves down to the south and east and in the d.c. metro area around 6:00, 6:30, because of that, you may need the umbrellas. a lot of events going on this evening. the bruce springsteen concert down there. something to watch out for for sure. the front that came through is going to help bring hermine up in towards the southeast. that's what it is doing right now down towards the florida gulf coast. this is called the big bend of florida. look at the eye of the storm moving up towards the tallahassee area. that's where it will make landfall. an incredible amount of rain already falling here. we have tornado watches, hurricane warnings in effect. florida is going to hit very hard over the next 24 hours. and then the storm will move to the north and you can see that northern progression. winds right now, 75 miles an hour moving to the

hour. watch what happens. it hugs the coast. it takes it down to an area of low pressure but still has tropical storm-force winds. notice how far off the coast this is. this is great news for the d.c. metro area. not the best news out towards the beaches because this is going to stall and where it stalls, that's the question. does it stall towards the new jersey beaches or does it stall around the ocean city area? that's a very big question. that depends on the winds and rainfall amounts in our region. so that's the big question still out there. that's why this cone kind of goes like that, all the way around. because national hurricane center is not sure where this is going to be as we make our way in to late sunday into monday. saturday, rain to the south. we're talking fredericksburg, southern maryland southward. saturday night, a chance of showers everywhere. monday, looking pretty nice. this is for the inland area. the beaches are going to be completely different. we'll talk about that

one thing for sure, we'll get in on the rain. amelia and i will be back and amelia will breakdown the beach impacts. there it is, weather alert on sunday as we watch the storm system move our way. highs in the 70s. labor day looking pretty good. then we're tracking what could become a record-breaking heatwave late next week in to the first full weekend or after labor day. guys, something to watch out for. we have a hurricane makes its way up the coast and then temperatures that could break some records. >> yikes. >> thank you, doug. there is good news. it's about an experimental drug to treat alzheimer's. >> it shows early promise in slowing the disease but is it the game change ther that researchers have been hoping for. and adam tuss has video of

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in news4 your health, alzheimer's is an awful disease with no cure but there is something showing promise. some are even calling it a game changer. the drug was found to significantly reduce the sticky plaques in the brain that experts believe cause the disease. it's significant because these plaqs

or 20 years before people start experiencing memory loss and other symptoms. >> so imagine if you can take a population of people who are at risk, either by screening or genetic risk and give them this drug and prevent the plaques from ever developing, could that result in a cure for alzheimer's. >> the groupand another study f people with chronic pain may find relief without taking drugs. government researchers found yoga and acupuncture were helping in managing back pain while acupuncture and ti chi helped with sore knees. there were no significant side effects to any of these

the death of his girlfriend's baby. we have new developments in the courtroom today. the latest in a live report. and the loudoun county

after plenty of clouds around for the morning and lunchtime hours, seeing the sunshine out there and feeling muggy, that's helping to fuel showers that i'm tracking on storm team 4 radar.

loud den and frederick county ahead of a cold front. also, activity in an any run dell county. heads up if you are heading out tonight, kids have after school activities or you want to fire up the grill, do know that we'll be tracking some areas of rain with heavy downpours. it's a perfect finish to the work week. >> amelia, thanks. there is a verdict in the trial of a maryland man charged with killing his girlfriend's toddler. let's go to our

tracee wilkins at the courthouse in upper marlboro. tracee? >> well, osman sesay was found guilty and could face a possibility of 65 years in jail. he's accused of killing his 23 -- the son of his girlfriend, 23-month-old ahmed jalloh. he w the baby was under his care for 2 1/2 hours and then 911 was called for the child being unresponsive. what was important here is that the state explain and try and prove that it was sesay who caused that baby to die. the child suffered horrific injuries. he had brain damage as well as a torn liver. because of all of

>> it's very hard to know what happened with this child. you're aware of that fact and you're trying to make the best judgment for that child, you know, because you want -- you don't want a parent to feel that, okay, if something happens to my child, then i go to the system, the system is just going to ignore me. >> reporter: now, this juror said he was not convinced that sesay was guilty of all charges. it turns out that his former fellow jurors agreed with that. so not guilty o

murder and second-degree assault but guilty of second-degree child abuse in the first and second degree, looking at the possibility of more than 60 years in prison if he is given the full scope of what he could possibly be looking at in prison. reporting live, tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. >> thank you, tracee. we're working for you in the community. registration begins for the k-9 krawl in fairfax county. it's a 5k dog walk to raise awareness of the link between domestic violence and abuse of family pets. experts say pets are often harmed or threatened along with the victims. we've posted information about this event on the nbc washington app. just search k-9 krawl. a piece of the pentagon will help dulles

forget the attacks that changed the world. the 32-inch piece of limestone was pulled from the rubble after flight 77 crashed into the building. 125 people in the building, another 59 on that plane were killed. the slice of history will now sit at the east tsa checkpoint at dulles for years to come. >> this memorial will serve as a constant reminder. we will never forget and the loss will not be forgotten. >> the defense department awarded the actifact. red light cameras are being triggered at a face pace but not by cars. bicyclists have been setting off the cameras because they are rolling through the red lights. transportation reporter adam tuss has a report on the number of

is a good reminder that everyone needs to share the road responsibly. >> cyclists triggering red light cameras by rolling through red lights. watch here in this automatic enforcement video, a cyclist rolls through a red light, comes close to a metro bus and then weaves through cross-traffic. in another video, the cyclist goes through the red light and in another through the crosswalk and then hangs out in the middle of the intersection and in another a red light and a cyclist rolls as the traffic is turning. >> this is a safety issue, not just for our cyclists but for our drivers. >> reporter: news4 has learned from the beginning of 2015 to april 2016, there were 1,557 red light cameras triggered by cyclists. while nowhere in the city has cyclists triggered more red light violations than right here, rhode island avenue and first street

a total of 276 violations at this intersection alone, according to recent stats. and this is happening at intersections across the city. now, mpd has no way to track cyclists down to issue them a ticket but -- >> if our officers witness them violating the law, they will be cited there on the scene. >> reporter: it's important to put things in perspective. last year alone, there were over 60,000 red light camera violations by cars in d.c. that's according to aaa. >> let's remember who is injuring and killing people. i know this is hard to hear, but the vast majority, 99% of people who get hit and killed, walking, biking or driving is committed by drivers. >> greg billing with the washington bicyclist association. >> we are frustrated when cyclists are targeted. to my fellow riders, follow the rules. it makes our job easier. >> for

just be safe on the roads. in the district, adam tuss, news4. new trouble for former c congressman anthony weiner.

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i'm storm team 4 meteorologist doug kammerer. tropical storm hermine became a hurricane at about 3:00. you can see this trail here. it's like a low-pressure area bringing in a cold front coming on through the region. that's going to come through florida and any time that happens, you get tornadoes and we have a tornado watch for most of the state of florida. this storm is going to have a big impact on part of our area for labor day. coming up in less than ten minutes, amelia draper will take a look at the impact you can see in your area if you're going to the beaches or mountains. a teacher in loudoun county reached a new milestone after a devastating bicycling accident. schmidt was seriously injured in a bike accident and spent two weeks in the hospital with a broken pelvis and tailbone.

today, his crutches sat next to his desk. >> i had the biggest grim on my face. everyone has been very appreciate tif that i'm able to be upright and walking on my own. >> his next goal, walking a mile and a half to two miles a day: go to our nbc washington app for more information. starbucks is looking ahead to fall. pumpkin spice latte is back. more than 2.5 million cups have been sold since starbucks introduced this in 2003. walking with purpose. why a 90-year-old texas woman is making the more than 1300-mile trek to d.c. on foot. and the fallout from donald trump's fiery spee on immigchr

child services may be investigating after a sexting charge of former congressman anthony weiner. "the post" published photos of weiner lying in a bed with his young son next to him. they will not comment on specific cases or allegations.

weiner resigned from congress in 2011 after another sexting scandal. this week, huma abedin announced that they are divorcing. and now to decision 2016. vowing that america comes first, that means non-u.s. citizens here illegally will be deported. steve? >> jim, this is head spinning. trump's making clear he thinks a hard line is his way to the white house. hoping he is staging a comeback, donald trump in ohio today summed up his new push in two words. >> it will be, from now on, america first. >> reporter: his meeting in mexo

he and mexico's trump were both concerned that illegal border crossing endangers migrants. >> our greatest compassion will be for the american citizen. cheers of "usa, usa" and the crowd loved his wall. >> mexico is going to pay for the wall. >> reporter: tim kaine jabbed trump. >> it's like he choked, caved, lost his confidence. >> reporter: back from mexico last night, trump doubled down on deportation. >> day one, my first hour in office, those people are gone. >> reporter: undocumented criminals deported, two million. new migrants locked up and sent back. the rest, 10 million, in line to be deported. >> you can call it whatever the hell you want. they are gone. >> reporter: and a trump adviser

>> there was hope yesterday when he went to mexico, he looked like a president. >> reporter: but to get to the white house, trump is choosing a hard line. which means, again, he's ignoring or undercutting his own top advisers who for weeks have hinted that donald trump would not demand cross-the-board deportation. i'm steve handelsman, news4. a north carolina man is out of prison after a judge overturned his conviction in a double murder yesterday releasing him pending a new trial. 54-year-old darryl howard was convicted in 1995 of killing doris washington and her daughter. new tests found inside both victims belonged to two different men, not to howard. >> i told them i didn't do it and i fought it every step of the way. you've always got to keep fighting. it took me a long time to get

this point. >> new york's innocence project took up howard's case. well, let's get to amelia. it seems like things are changing by the hour. >> and this just in, we now have tropical storm watches for the maryland and delaware beaches. so just getting that information in starting at the top of news4 at 5:00, the latest track from the national hurricane center as jim was saying, this is a changing and evolving forecast. we're giving you the latest information and we'll continue to do that. what you're seeing right now, not necessarily set in stone but it continues to look like throughout the day today that the beaches in our area will be the hardest hit locations followed by the d.c. area, kind of a minor impact event, more of a nuisance event for the holiday weekend and if you're heading to the mountains, you he can picked the right spot to go. gorgeous weather tomorrow, though. it's going to be a

day. before hermine moves in and maybe ruins your labor day plans, enjoy tomorrow. rain most likely here in our area on sunday. again, beaches looking to be the hardest hit not only with rain but damaging winds as well and very rough surf. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar. we're tracking heavy rainfall. slowly moving towards the southeast. this will likely move in to the metro area impacting the d.c. metro between 6:00 and 8:00. in parts of montgomery, fairfax county, 7:00, 8:00 p.m., right here in the district. we dry out, clear out overnight. the 80s, the muggy 80s right now, nowhere to be seen. tomorrow, still in the 80s. the mugginess is not there. 7:00 a.m. and gorgeous in washington. low to mid-60s in the suburbs. eat outside. near 80

during the afternoon and evening hours, it will be from hurricane hermine. still a spectacular evening for friday night. 76 degrees at 8:00 p.m. the friday outlook is all green for whatever your plans are. it's windy on saturday, sunday and monday. we could see gusts especially on saturday night into sunday anywhere to 60 to 70 miles an hour. winds that strong do produce damage. we're talking about three to six inches of rain. that much rain leads to flooding. 70s at the beaches for labor day weekend. the time period we're most closely looking at here is going to be sunday when we're talking about showers at times. i think most of saturday here in washington is dry and then weather alert day on sunday. labor day still keeping it dry and a high of 84. >>

a woman is walking to the nation's capital all the way from the dallas-ft. worth region, more than 1300 miles. reporter ben russell has her journey which began today. >> reporter: this journey will start here, at this church in ft. worth. coincidentally, it was at an ame church way back in 1865 in galveston where many of texas' slaves first learned they were free and the purpose of this march is to make sure no one forgets that. >> i've been talking to everybody that i can get to listen. >> that includes president obama. what you see there is the two of them together in 2008. what you don't see is that she had just slipped him a letter asking him to designate it as a

holiday. she hopes to present the president with 100,000 signatures. she says far too many have forgotten the history of freedom here in texas. >> we've got to let people know that we have a whole generation of people that know absolutely nothing about juneteenth. >> she doesn't expect it to become a federal holiday, meaning a paid day off. she's looking for something more like flag day, a day on the calendar and that people understand the significance of. ben russell, nbc 5. >> juneteenth is also known as two years after abraham

issued the emancipation proclamation. it's primarily observed in local celebrations. a blast felt miles away as a rocket blows up on a launch pad at cape canaveral. what this explosion means for space company spacex. i'm mark segraves on the campus of georgetown university. there was a sale of 272 slaves and georgetown, as we know it today, may not be here. today, the president of the university will offer an apology to the descendents of those slaves as well as ways that they can help bring those slave descendents back in to the community. they will put up a memorial and, most importantly, offer

a couple of u.s. astronauts took a stroll today for the second time. this walk was more than five hours long. they had to install high-def video cameras. commander jeffrey williams was one of the astronauts on the walk. he holds the records for most accumulated time in orbi

base walk was a success, a spacex rocket exploded capturing this fiery accident by camera as nbc shows us the explosion is a big blow to the private space company. spacex confirms it was testing with a satellite when the explosion occurred thursday morning. the test was in advance of what was supposed to be a launch this saturday from the cape canaveral air force station. "loss of falcon vehicle today" more information soon. buildings several miles away

shook from the blast and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. >> spacex 3 is under way. >> reporter: for spacex, this was supposed to be the company's ninth launch of 2016 after last december's historic launch of 11 satellites atop of falcon rocket followed by a safe return to earth. no one was hurt in thursday's blast but nearly $100 million in equipment was destroyed. nbc news. >> we start with storm team 4 and off of tampa, it's stronger as it is

meteorologists doug kammerer and amelia are here guys? >> it's a hurricane and it's a strengthening hurricane coming on shore and a lot of times that means you'll deal with more of a storm surge for that area, an area that is extremely storm surge prone. for us, we have a new track and something else new as well. >> we're talking about tropical storm watches for our beaches. you're not really thinking evacuations but still not a good weekend to head to the beach. >> no, it's not. you can have winds over 40 miles per hour and that's what we'll be seeing. in the south, it's a hurricane warning towards florida's gulf coast. the eye is going to strengthen a little bit or rather start to get a little smaller here. as it does, it will strengthen and look at all of the feeder bands that come in.

effect for the state of florida as well. the track itself moving to the north. winds are 75 miles an hour moving to the east-northeast at 14 miles per hour. the latest track, once again, shift it is farther to the south and east. that gives us a lot more confidence today that d.c. westward we'll be okay. off the beaches here, on saturday evening in to sunday, much more on that amelia has the latest. >> maryland, delaware, parts of virginia, we're going to look at this weekend and we'll keep an eye on it. saturday night in