right now at six, a life look at the clouds moving into our area. big holiday weekend. storm team 4 show you how this weather could affect your plans. d.c. police give an update to the deadly shooting that left seven people injured and tonight asking for your help. plus the law enforcement community in our region mourning after a gunman killed a state trooper during a traffic stop. tracking possible storm and rain for your saturday evening. meteorologist shows us what's going on in the skies out there. what's the potential impact for tonight? >> now t

throughout the district. we are seeing lighter showers coming out towards spring george county heading towards clinton seeing more moderate showers. take a look at the bigger picture. real action to the south. areas in a severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 p.m. i think the atmosphere is prime the further south you move out here in the district. we aren't going to be seeing any severe weather. not going to close the window for a thunderstorm entirely, but as far as it being severe, not worried about that. so in summary, if you're going out tonight, have the umbrella on deck. temperatures in the 70s around 7:00 p.m. showers lingering. midnight we should all be dry with temperatures dropping into the 60s overnight. now, if you are planning on heading to any of the memorial services that we will see throughout the weekend, we will see the rain return. yes. the plot thickens. more details on your full forecast. back to you

we have this just into the newsroom. we sent you out an alert about this. smithsonian police officer found a noose hanging from a tree while during security checks at the museum last night. incident around 6:00 p.m. u.s. parks just told us about this minutes ago. the noose was inside the canopy of a tree on the west side of the plaza. police are now investigating. bring you more investigation as it comes in. a shooting that hurt seven people and killed a person. we're told neighbors called police multiple times before the gunfire started. today officers back out. >> all goes back to who did the shooting and to wound that many people is just heartless, callous, i'm a little dumbfounded for more words to say about it. >> police tell us they're looking for two men who left the scene this morning in a dark colored sedan. at this point, they're not talking about a motive. news 4 tells us more about the man

of the evidence police are looking at tonight. >> the aftermath. so many shots fired that the search for evidence was going on eight hours after the incident. the gunfire that awakened the residents in this northwest neighborhood claimed the life of 32-year-old man. hit several times. seven others, six males and a female were wounded. >> it was bound to happen sooner or later. >> a large gathering at the scene. >> it's constantly 40 deep any given day, any given hour. >> police responded to complaints about it late friday night, early saturday morning. >> the last car left about 11:40 last night. unfortunately this happened. >> several cars were towed from the scene. some with bullets still embedded. evidence. police removed a bullet from this hallway. came through a window. few inches tth

a crowd of police replacing the crowd that had been here friday night. residents say the multiple shooting stands out. more than just a nuisance now. someone has died. and maybe that's what it takes for something to be done about the gatherings. >> hopefully, you know. >> i was in the army so reacting to gunfire is something i've been trained for. >> you don't expect to have to react to it on the street where you live. a routine traffic stop in richmond turns deadly for a virginia state trooper. special agent michael walter is being remembered for his passion for criminal justice and commitment to working with young people. today richmond police and local leaders held an impromptu prayer vigil. the alleged shooter fired a single shot striking the officer. he died this morning at the

and like any family, these sorts of losses are incredibly tragic to us. they have a signifificant impac i will tell you that it's made our resolve even stronger. >> the alleged gunman ran off immediately after the shooting, but police caught him about an hour later after walter died this morning. special agent walter was 18 year veteran at the force. leaves behind a wife, two sons and a daughter. more travel delays this holiday weekend. this time two of the world's busiest airports. british air ways cancelling all flights for the rest of the day. tens of thousands of people are stranded now. british airways is blaming a global it failure. the airlines says there's no evidence of a cyber attack in this case. president trump is on his way home after logging 30,000 miles during first foreign trip since taking office. wrapped up

american troops stationed in italy. he's the loan holdout on climate change discussions there. president trump tweeted that he would make a decision about climate change next week. talking about u.s. participation in the paris accord. this is a news 4 breaking news update. a key voice of the southern rock movement has died. founding member of the almond brothers. sparked the southern rock and jam band movement of the 1970s. family said in a statement he struggled with many health issues of the past several years. died at his home today in

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montgomery county honoring members of memorial day weekend. families out visitinhe

caught up with one mother who has a son in the navy. >> without them we wouldn't have the kind of freedom that we have right now. >> putting on the memorial day display for three years now. looking good. so what is gardening have to do with growing up. everything if you ask the folks behind this new urban farm in the section of the district. broke ground today on the youth blossom project. aimed at giving young people the experience of turning the soil while at the same time turning their lives around. >> it's analogous to what youth go through. the youth also need to billion attended to, to be heard, and for them to find the strength and the talent. >> all their talents will be going to good use here. steel plate restaurant around the corner is going to serve up some of the vegetables grown in

other parts of the city. st withay

joins us live with reaction. leon, apparently someone spotted those flyers here in the

down. we're speaking this evening to the mayor here in alexandria who says this is absolutely disturbing. now the flyers -- of the photoings and blurring out some of the hateful speech and images contained in them. the photos are being circulated on social media. to bring awareness that this is happening here in alexandria and won't be tolerated. we just spoke to the mayor who says this is a community of kindness and compassion. >> we denounce hate speech and hate crimes and discrimination in all forms. we're just not sure. i can't speculate on who did this. it's just -- it is disturbing. i wanted to make sure that the word got out that this is creeping in our inclusive community so we could stand up against it. that's not what delray

>> this is under investigation by the alexandria city police department. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you darcy. a much more positive note, just hours away from the dress rehearsal of a national memorial day concert. gates opened up to the public. extra heavy security. checkpoints set up and people are going to be screened for prohibited items like guns, knives and lasers. show begins at eight. singers like renay flemingee fl rolling thunder ride for freedom. bikers ride tomorrow. program at the lincoln memorial. concert by billy ray cyrus and others. you can find a full list of closures on nbc washington app. i think we're going to need to take the umbre

>> a lot going on this weekend, leon. you know what, we are going to be seeing showers diminish. that's the good news. this was definitely a finnicy forecast. show you a live look outside right now. we are pretty quiet throughout the district. in fact a few sprinkles falling down in northwest d.c. other than that -- oh, other than that we are seeing drier conditions throughout this district. take a look at your radar. head down prince george county. overall on the drier side. big picture though, really tells this story in its entirety. i mean, that severe weather really was prompted further south of us. that's because they got one prime ingredient we didn't really get today. sunshine. they are seeing severe thunderstorm watches in effect for the county. viewers down there. that's in effect until 10:00 p.m. for the rest of

still see a chance for scattered showers. not going to close the window on thunderstorm chances until 9:00 p.m. current temperatures right now in the district at 70 degrees. 71 in lorton. you can see cooler up towards montgomery county. gaithersburg. heading out for dinner, temperatures in the 70s, working their way into the 60s. like i said, that shower chance is really limited. continue to push through the night, start to dry out. storm chances also very limited. i will still have the umbrella handy. going to be heading to 7-8:00 dinner. later hours, temperatures in the 60s again. partly cloudy conditions. actually dry by the start of your sunday. if you are going to be heading to the rolling thunder, you will be seeing temperatures in the 60s around 8:00 a.m. and cool by lunchtime. temperatures work their way into the low 70s. guess what, that rain chance returns by sunday evening and afternoon. i want to walk us through it on the future weather

further south. getting wet in the district. head through sunday, it's going to be hit our miss. we could see showers as well as spotty thunderstorm or two. have the umbrella handy again for sunday night. head into monday, things start to shape up. temperatures rise and feel s a lot more like summer. speaking of which, here's your beach forecast. taking the weekend from a beach perspective. best time to go would be monday afternoon. temperatures in the mid 70s. get a lot more sunshine tomorrow. we do have a shot again as to more afternoon thunderstorms. here's a look at your extended forecast. sunday, highs in the upper 70s. spend some time with this. monday. low to mid 80s for a lot of us. showers will be restricted to the morning hours on monday. dry out and i don't know about you. i have just been o waingti some sunshine and that will be taking affect on tuesday. and we'll see that remain throughout much of the week. is there a chance for showers through the middle of the week. yes, i won't rule that out

leon, again, a lot of sunshine. >> sunshine is a good thing. we want the make the padres feel at home here. visiting against the mets. last night saw a big game from matt scherzer. starting to follow suit with his own performance today. highlights just ahead. i'm melissa with look at traffic for memorial weekend. a lot of rain and celebrations all over the place. saturday and monday. one of them happening all weekend. we have closures there in downtown rockville. hosting the parade on monday 10:00 a.m. so hope to see some of you there. saturday, having memorial celebration. sunday, national memorial concert at the national mall where they do that every year. monday church celebration. again, be ware. closures all over the place for those big celebrations.

freedom, sunday here. road closures from 10:30 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. we're talking about areas including the arlington memorial bridge. 12th street tunnel close to northbound traffic and then the ninth street tunnel close to southbound traffic this weekend. because of that, the full list of closures on the nbc apshington vo: delivering cleaner, reliable energy... creating jobs for our veterans... helping those in need save money on their energy bills. it takes 16,000 dominion energy employees doing the job. and now, dominion energy is investing $15 billion to build and upgrade our electric and natural gas infrastructure... creating jobs now and for the future. across virginia, we're building an economy that works for everyone and dominion energy is helping

bryce harper took time to meet with kids today before the game with the padres. his message, no participation trophy. first place only for 24-year-old mvp leading the home runs before may. guess hooee's a man of his wordd a man of respect. these are the cleats he's wearing this weekend. one side honors the tome of the unknown soldier. the guy doing it all today, steven straufberg. gets ryan ship swinging. then hunter

strikes out in order. 14 strikeouts in the first innings for him. also got the job done on the bases. bottom of the third. he slides home on this round up from brayce harper. still in progress. mets currently ahead, 3-0. mens lacrosse final four top seeded maryland taking on fifth seeded denver in a rematch game. maryland up by one. easton walker. scores 40th goal of the season and the game is tied at eight. less than two minutes later, conner kelly with amazing footwork. third of the game puts maryland up 9-8. crunch time now. ten seconds left in the game. denver still down a point. conner donahue. gets in and scores. hold on. the goal is negated because he handed inside of the crease. so maryland hangs on advances to third straight championship. take on ohio state monday at one 1:00.

start last night against nebraska on a diamond elimination game big ten tournament. apparently aj lee is a night owl. three run shot in the first inning set the tone. the fourth inning, madison also doing damage. he aims for the fences. settle for a triple. three run score. 7-1 maryland takes the lead there and they win it and they advance to play again today to face north western in another elimination game. 55 in the bottom of the seventh. maryland with the bases loaded. aj lee again. this time hit by the pitch. and maryland takes the lead. 6-5. remains patient at the plate. watson with a much less painful rbi. takes a 7-5 lead. rally continues. this time actually contact. madison nickens with a

it's just a sack fly. take a 9-5 lead and that's the final score. maryland play north western again tonight at 8:30 with the right to advance too big ten championship game. moving day for the senior pga championship at trump national. steven with a shot of the day. seeing off on 15. lucky bounces and yes, that's an ace. he finished the day five under. langer, trading spots on the leaderboard all day. long birdie put to langer. sin just short of the hole. tieing 14 under. however, head to the clubhouse outright leader. tee off together in the final pairing tomorrow at 1:40. washington valor in action this afternoon against the philadelphia soul. five touchdowns on the day.

to get a two touchdown lead. backup quarterback shawn bracket. rushing touchdown with less than a minute to go. gives them the opportunity to win. i say opportunity because they missed the extra point with 40 seconds left and fall 48-47. all right. looks like curt cousins has a new quarter back coach. 85 veronica who has worked there gave tips on how to improve. posted advice on instagram with this picture. told him to get the ball out fast and drop it back. wants the new receivers to get involved in the offense. veronica is a harsh critic. apparently leon, let's hope she isn't watching this broadcast right now and taking notes and figures out what she's going to say the day she meets either of us. >> with you on that. got o good point. we don't have a general manager right now. maybe she can come do

>> let's go ahead and take a look at the ten day. let it up for you. sunday, it's really about the beginning portion of the day that's going to be good. head into the late night hours. that's when the showers and thunderstorms will begin. primarily after 4-5:00 and picking up through the evening. highs for your sunday in the mid to upper 70s. monday going to flip the scrip there. monday morning is going to be wet as we head to the afternoon. things dry out. >> all right. you got it. thanks for the advice and thanks for joining us this ralph no rtham: being a pediatrician has taught me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam, and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting

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