thunderstorm warning it. that warning lasted until 6:30. you can see that warning in the yellow. eastern montgomery county, southern howard county, extreme northern portions of anne arundel, this storm you can see a lot of lightning associated with it. we've seen it pulse up and down. very strong around the reston area. we saw that hail in pa tomorrow mac and looking at hail closer towards the coalsville area. notice the line. you can see that line extending down from baltimore all the way down to d.c., right on down i-95. always a mess this time of day. even more of a mess with the rain. i want to show you what's happening right through in eastern montgomery county. taking the lightning off here, you can see it right near the intercounty connecter. some very heavily rain right around laurel is where we're seeing the heaviest. only starting to pull away from your area. farther out you can see this is one little area of rain that we've got coming through.

we're not quite done just yet. however once this moves through our severe weather threat diminishes over the next couple of hours. we'll keep you posted tracking that storm. >> thank you. there are still more questions than answers after a man checks into the trump hotel with an assault rifle and ammo in his car. >> this evening we're learning more about that suspect. a man from pennsylvania for now he's only facing gun charges. >> mark segraves is live outside of the trump hotel with the details on this. mark? >> reporter: good evening. when brian moles had checked in to the hotel here behind us, minutes after checking in, d.c. police and secret service knocked on the door. when he answered he immediately told them, yes, he had guns and ammunitions down in his car. >> the mpds, explosive ordinance unit was called to the scene to examine the vehicle and they found in hazardous materials.

an ar 15 assault rifle and a 40 caliber handgun were recovered from the vehicle. >> police and secret service received tips that 43-year-old brian moles could pose a threat. first a tip came in to pennsylvania state police where moles lives saying he was armed and in d.c. and there was concern about his state of mind. then a separate call came from security at the trump hotel saying moles had just checked in and told the parking attendant he had guns in his car. >> i want to thank the tipster that came in from the state of pennsylvania and notified authorities. we say it all the time, the best way to prevent a disaster is to when you see something to say something. >> reporter: while d.c. police chief peter newsham says disaster was averted, police and secret service aren't say what moles was doing in d.c. and if he planned to hurt anyone. originally d.c. police had said moles made threats. >> at this point we don't have enough information to charge him

>> reporter: now police and secret service are still not saying if they know what his intent was when he came here to washington with those guns. we'll learn more tomorrow when he appears in court on the gun charges. mark segraves, news4. >> i'm chris lawrence with some breaking news. we just learned that someone left a noose at the national museum of african-american history and culture. we got our hands on an e-mail that the director of the smithsonian sent out to everyone at all of the museums and institutions which basically says, this act -- it's an act of hatred and intolerance and it will not be tolerated. from what we have been able to determine, sometime this afternoon, tourists were visiting an exhibit on segregation. they saw the noose. they alerted the park police who came to investigate. they took it down t closed the exhibit for several hours while they investigated. now t e

coming at only four days after a noose was also found at the her shore museum as well as several other incidents in the area. the secretary of the smithsonian says we will not be intimidated. he called it a cowardly act and it will not stop them from doing the work that they do. as we get more information on this we'll bring it to you on air and the nbc washington app. back to you. >> chris, with the disturbing story. hopefully they got surveillance video. his family says his innocent but a young father is headed to prison for 13 years for causing the death of his baby daughter. jeweli carey was in the courtroom today where the family made their plea. she joins us live in leesburg. >> reporter: it was back in march that a jury convicted demon tai. his family put these posters up around downtown sayingy

convicted. the prosecutors and their medical experts have a different story. they say the baby died of blunt force trauma to the head at the hands of her father. the facebook page is called rest in paradise devon, a tribute to the little girl who came into the world and died before her first birthday. now her father is headed to prison for 13 years for causing her death. >> my brother is innocent. >> reporter: that's the belief of ellis's family. they believe he was wrongly convicted by a jury. their flyers feature the shot of a tender moment between father and daughter. >> my brother was always there for devon the way he needed to be. >> he would never hurt that baby. he carried that baby around like she was a piece of jewel. >> reporter: the family says 9-month-old devon was primarily in the care of her mother before she was dropped off one october day back in 2014 to spend time with her dad. they say the baby seemed listless and anti-inflammatory he

bottle she began to choke. >> she started spitting up milk. my brother tried to resuscitate that baby. he even drove her there and flew in the helicopter. >> reporter: baby devon died a few days later at children's hospital. later interrogated by police ellis said he dropped the baby on the bathroom floor but prosecutors say even that would not have caused her severe injuries. >> the number of different injuries that she had, the retinal hemorrhaging, the subdural hemorrhaging, the broken legs and ribs just couldn't have all happened from a simple drop. >> reporter: when ellis had his chance to speak to the judge. i've always bane good father. i've never been a hurtful person. i will do my best to rehabilitate himself. now the baby's maternal grandmother was in court today but her mother was not there, nor did she offer a victim

shortly after devon died she gave birth to the couple's second child, another little girl. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, right now at 6:00 tonight. this is the man police tell us sexually assaulted a woman inside her affluent arlington apartment. >> authorities want you to take another look at this suspect because they need some help as they still are trying to track him down. >> chris gordon talked to people who live inside that building who say they are still very scared tonight. >> reporter: residents here at the atrium in arlington are feeling vulnerable. for many the attack on a woman here has shaken their sense of feeling safe in their own home. terrifying to residents, frustrating for police. the suspect in the sex assault at the atrium is still at large, more than three weeks after the attack. jack mayor is a resident of the atrium. >> people just feel vulnerable

they would expect to have in a building such as this that has more security than a stand alone townhouse or regular house. >> reporter: the unsolved sexual assault has people who live near the atrium concerned. >> it was definitely very, very scary and something that you hope not to ever see happen again. >> reporter: arlington county police want you to take a good look at surveillance video of the man they say is the suspect in the sex assault case the morning of may 7th. first he tries to enter a building at 1919 wilson boulevard but he was turned away by security. then he came to the atrium on key boulevard. he knocked on doors claiming he was a maintenance worker. when one woman opened her door he sexually assaulted her and then fled. the surveillance video in the atrium's elevator shows his face as he looked right into the camera. he became anxious as police responded to neighbors calls reporting loud noises. police say the

seen fleeing from the back of the building after the attack. >> people are going to ask how could it be that a guy like this can disappear. >> our detectives are working hard to identify this individual considering that there is such good surveillance video we're asking the public to take a look. we know somebody out there knows who he is, we just need that person to come forward. >> reporter: arlington county is working with police departments around the region. they are asking, if any, of the neighboring departments have a similar sex assault case and, if any, can help them identify the suspect in this case. that's the latest from arlington, back to you. >> maryland voters are going to vote for governor next year in a high profile democrat from baltimore just announced he is running. ben jealous formally announced today that he will seek the democratic nomination. jealous was president of the naacp from 2008 to 2013. he backed bernie sanders in the

priorities a reality. >> it is time for us to dream again and it is time for us to get back to making big dreams real again. >> the democratic primary will be held in late june next year. the winner will tail on incumbent governor larry hogan who has deep support within the national republican party. >> now to a white house in crisis. there is late word this evening that the house intelligence committee is issuing subpoenas for several people connected to the russia investigation including former national security advisor michael flynn and president trump's personal attorney michael cohen. this is nbc news learns that fired fbi director james comey is about to break his silence. he plans to tell his side of the story in an open hearing next week on capitol hill. blayne alexander is tracking it all from the white house this evening f

>> reporter: that highly anticipated testimony is expected next week as you said and it's coming just as this wide reaching russia investigation continues to expand. now all along of course the white house has really been trying to focus on the president's agenda but today, again, they're finding that their main message is being -- is competing with some very different headlines. >> we look forward to being together. >> reporter: the white house rolling out the red carpet today for vietnam's prime minister but in the spotlight, news about james comey, the former fbi director expected to testify next week in an open hearing on capitol hill. his first comment since his abrupt firing by president trump. >> he tends to say more than a political actor would actually reveal so i expect that he will probably be quite forthcoming. >> reporter: also on the horizon a decision on the paris climate agreement. nbc news is reporting the president is leaning toward pulling out of the deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions. one signed by nearly every

nation in the world. >> in terms of u.s. leadership, i think it's disastrous. >> reporter: and a rather confusing overnight tweet from the president with what appears to be a made up word, covfefe. >> it's one thing after the other, day in and day out. everyone sits around and waits for what comes next. >> reporter: and many putting aside politics to stand up for the president today after comedian kathy griffin posted gruesome photos with the likeness of president trump. >> i sincerely apologize. >> reporter: despite an apology the outrage was fierce, the president saying my children, especially my 11-year-old son barron are having a hard time with this, sick. from first lady melania trump, makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it, even former first daughter chelsea clinton tweeting it is never funny to joke about killing a president. >> reporter: the house intel committee also issued three separate subpoenas today related to the unmasking investigation. they're seeking ima

susan rice and john brennan and samantha powers and this is related to allegations that they improperly unmasked or named members of the trump team. >> thank you. it may be one of the bloodiest attacks of the long afghan war. >> authorities are trying to figure out how someone was able to breach security and drive a bomb into one of the countries safe havens. >> after months of complaints, new adjustments are medical made ralph northam: being a pediatrician has taught me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam,

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. there were protests, there were lawsuits, there were angry shoppers. >> well, now reston town center will roll back it's parking fees but some shoppers and business owners are saying it's too little too late. meghan fitzgerald tells us why some folks still aren't satisfied with the plans to reinstate limited free parking. >> reporter: a lot of managers say they're upset because they tell us they've lost a lot of business and this new parking adjustment makes it free for one hour. this is the letter that they received from the managing company that managing these parking garages. first hour free in all z-ba rajz, all garages free after 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. they

hoping to get the word out and hoping that it'll bring back more business. >> we get people coming in that complain. >> reporter: complaints of complicated parking apps coupled with an added cost of 2 bucks an hour. >> i am a college student and i don't have that much money. >> reporter: has caused businesses around the reston town center to slow down. >> i am more inclined not to come because i do have to pay for parking. >> i think it's not right, you know. i understand why because we tell people, you know, we'll go to fairfax corner tieton's where it's fear. >> reporter: ever since boston properties started charging back in january, business owners around here say it's been affecting their bottom line. >> we've absolutely seen our traffic decrease because of it. >> reporter: restaurant managers say they especially notice a decline in customers on friday nights, boston property says they studied the traffic pa

retailer input and released the following statement, one hour of free parking and free parking after 5:00 p.m. would address the primary concerns expressed by the community. that of course has yet to be scene since the new policy doesn't go into effect until june 5th but many businesses say they're counting on it. >> most people's lives are built off of this so it's tough. >> reporter: this parking adjustment goes into effect on monday and as was always the case parking was free on the weekend and on holidays, wendy. >> thanks for clearing that up. investigators say new charges are expected in connection with that deadly house fire in stafford county. lisa bar tash is being held without bail. investigators say she set fire to her house on the first of may while her husband was inside. he was critically injured. he died on monday four weeks after that fire. mrs. bar tash

friday charged with arson and attempted murder. additional charges are expected now that her husband has died. amtrak, a major part of d.c.'s union station is now suing union station. the i-team has learned the transit agency is taking union station's operators to court demanding the removal of wall advertisements for delta airlines from the station. amtrak tells us its lease at the transit hubs prohibits union stations from allowing competitors to advertise in side. amtrak says it competes with delta for passengers especially in the northeast. no comment from other side. after years of studying the def relativation of the words language, the dictionary using it in a the sentence, today is the day top spellers put those skills to the test. >>

>> correct. >> thank you. >> that's just one of the warmup words. more than 200 spellers endured multiple rounds at the script national spelling bee. the finals happen tomorrow and six of our local students are moving on indeed. >> we have a digital exclusive you'll find only in our washington app. die hard have created a fantasy draft if you will just like sports fans carefully study athletes records, spelling bee super fans study the speller's stat to try to pick the winner. one elaborate scoring by one family. for more open our nbc washington app.

all right. a parade of graduating high school seniors returned to a heros welcome at their elementary today. why this traditional means so much to everyone? >> domestic violence victims and advocates working to change laws in prince george's county so families can feel safe at home. what the ex-wife of a infamous d.c. sniper wants lawmakers to understand. >> we got details about nasa's mission to uncover the secrets of our biggest star in our solar system. how it plans to send

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what a wild and wicked afternoon once again, doug kammerer. >> yeah. it's been a theme around here over the last couple of days but it's not going to last. now we're still looking at those storms moving on through the area and you can see those storms very well from our tower cam. earlier this was facing to the west. now it's facing to the east and take a look, you can see the storm making it's way up towards the east, up toward howard county and prince george's county. looking pretty good right now. if it was dark we'd be able to see that lightning but you can definitely see the rain. really two storms and evein

we got the strong storm here. it's now weakened and now looks like, again, starting to strengthen as it moves into baltimore. another storm down into the southern charles county. another storm forming down around king george county. down towards quantico, just south and east of quantico. this is the big guy and in towards bowie and indianapolis along 50, 50 going to be a mess because we got very heavy rain from bowie right there at the chick-fil-a. that chick-fil-a getting rained on for sure and this is all moving on to the east. annapolis you haven't seen the rain yet. this will past just around the la platta. this whole line continues to move off toward the east as well. you can see what's happening. not much of a line but it is coming right on through our region. we're watching another line back

that is this line right here. this one will come through but by the time it gets here with the lack of day time heating they should begin to weaken so just shower activity most likely around the 11:00 hour. let's time it out for you. here we are at 6:00. the computer model doing pretty well with this storm. by 8:00 we get a break. if you're thinking about getting out after the rain ends, right now for example, it was raining outside our studios a half hour ago. it was bright and sunny. by 11:00, we may start seeing that next line move in and just some shower activity, not much. that moves through as a cold front, listen to this and that cold front will dry things out and that means sunshine tomorrow and a beautiful thursday. out at the bus stop, i've got nice, nice and nice tomorrow aulg afternoon. we haven't had a forecast like this in a while. 65 at 7:00 a.m., 84 by noon. getting out around 4:00 as

kids get home and maybe as you're heading home. next couple of days. a little bit of a different story. friday still looks nice, high temperature of 84. saturday a high of 80 degrees and everybody dry on saturday with the exception of maybe our mountains especially down to our southwest. sunday's the day i'm going to be watching. 84 degrees, could see some strong storms again on sunday. on monday, temperature around 85 degrees, rather stormy and it gets unsettled again for most of next week. we get right back into the pattern we had this weekend where we have cooler conditions, we have shower activity. that's the way it looks as we head toward the middle of next week. the ten-day forecast next three days looking really, really nice. i'll have much more on this forecast and the storms at 6:45. >> u.s. congressman anthony brown holds a round table discussing what is and is not working in domestic violence prevention. coming up on news4, we'll explain why. >> i'm

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>> our tracee wilkins spoke with d.c. sniper john muhammad's ex-wife about the changes that she would like to see. >> reporter: mildred muhammad was the ultimately target of the d.c. sniper spree. he was making his way across country to kill her but was arrested before he could. >> when i got my restraining order they didn't put the restraining order in the ncic, so that everybody nationwide would know -- >> reporter: but because restraining orders are not nationally found. >> no matter how many times they ran his name, every time they stopped him, they had nothing. >> reporter: today she said among domestic violence advocates and advised u.s. congressman anthony brown on what he can do to help people like her by filling gaps in federal law. >> what are the challenges? what are the things that we need to be focusing on right now?

important that we have the teeth behind it. >> reporter: as lieutenant governor of maryland, brown championed legislation to protect victims of domestic violence and he's introducing some of that same legislation federally. he's also gearing up to fight for the renewal of the violence against womens act. >> we're making some gains, but the challenge is enormous and we've got a very high percentage in prince george's county, so as lieutenant governor i did a lot of work on domestic violence, as a member of congress i'm not walking away from the issues. >> reporter: the hope is that finding an filling legal loopholes will save lives. >> he was able to come across country with this weapon and kill innocent people. >> reporter: the congressman said he learned a lot from today's round table and already has ideas for what needs to be done to expand domestic violence laws federally. in temple hills,

wilkins, news4. >> more funny money is making the rounds in area our. the man in this photo asked a woman to make change for a fake $100 bill. a man in maryland scammed a college student with this movie money. it's used in film shoots it has words on the bottom that say it's fake money. >> she was selling an iphone and he handed her an envelope filled with this fake cash. >> they're expected to survive their injuries but at least 90 people were killed and some 400 were injured in that blast that occurred in a highly secure diplomatic area of kabul. the germany embassy is heavily damaged. the taliban is denying any responsibility. >> pennsylvania man is in customer did i tonight after police tell us

assault rifle, a handgun and ammo to the trump hotel in downtown d.c. today. police and secret service say they got tips about brian moles and arrested him at the hotel. it's unclear what, if anything, he planned to do with those weapons. >> it's the word that conquered twitter today, covfefe or covfefe. you decide. president trump sent out a tweet around midnight. it simply said despite the constant negative press covfefe. the tweet stayed up until around 6:00 a.m. and that was more than enough time for the twitterverse to have a field day. >> and these are just some of the memes that showed up today. make america covfefe again. another tweeted this picture from the spelling bee asking what the country of origin is. even the president poked fun of hichls asking if anybody could figure out the true meaning of the word while most people are ha f

concerned. they're questioning why the post was up for six hours before it was taken down. others question how secure the president's personal phone actually is and whether it can be hacked. new at 6:00. the obamas have apparently made it official. news4 has confirmed the former first couple purchased that d.c. home. that swanky pad went for just over $8 million. the obama family decided to stay here in the district after the end of his second term so that younger daughter sasha could finish her schooling. that historic eight bedroom, nine bath mansion is just around the corner from current first daughter ivanka trump and her family. >> both have nice fixer uppers. to realize just how far you've come you have to look back sometimes at where it all started. for high schoolers in charles county that means going back to elementary school. kristen wright talks to students today and teachers about how

inspiring future graduates. >> reporter: the kids cheered on these high school seniors like they were rock stars. >> they're role models and i just told my sixth graders this morning they'll be able to be in the parade of success. >> reporter: graduating friday walked in the parade of success in their honor, down the hallways many of them remember well. >> it's awesome. it's good to be back. it's fun seeing all the teachers that i had. >> reporter: for their old teachers, it's just as special. you almost have them frozen in time as i had teach fifth grade so they're 10 years old when they're with me and now to see them grown up it's very exciting. >> they were great kids in fifth grade and they're still great kids. i've been teaching here since 1988, so this is a proud moment for me every year. ready for the next chapter, the seniors say they couldn't have done itit

here. >> they taught us a lot of things throughout the year and it was fun. glad to be back i'm glad to see them. >> they mean the world to me. a lot of these teachers told me to come out of my shell and really developed who i am as a character now in high school. >> this is just like i grew up here, a lot of these teachers help me come the person i am today. >> reporter: and the person they become tomorrow. in charles county, maryland, kristen wright, news4. >> love that story. well, everyone has a dog in this fight over a popular local dog park. why the park is facing some big changes and how the neighbors are trying to stop these changes. >> a room with a view sounds nice but for millennials, now it's all about what's inside a hotel room. susan hogan shows us where you can get a room with your own personal gym next. >> i like that. still in red for about the next ten minutes or so. we got new

anne arundel county. that storm up around the baltimore area. another storm down towards charles county but mostly the activity now starting to fall apart and actually a very nice evening setting up across our region. we're not quite done with the rain just yet.

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>> it's a popular place for both dogs and their owners and it may be getting smaller. neighbors are now asking the arlington county board to live the dog park untouched of the board's trying to accommodate storm water drainage and state mandated environmental regulations and to do that, they need to or want to cut the size of that park by more than 50%. you do get a chance to weigh in on an updated proposal coming up in july. a final decision on this dog park won't come until next year. >> a room with a view used to be what hotel guests asked for but today it's not what's out inside

room itself that counts. consumer reporter susan hogan shows us why. >> reporter: think about it, when you're traveling to a hotel you have two choices, workout in the hotel jim or don't work out at all. one major hotel chain says it's listening to its guest. they want aid better option and now they're getting it. hilton is launching five feet to fitness. you roll out of bed and five feet away there's a fully equipped mini gym plus a bike. it's a normal size room but they removed two big chairs and replaced them with sound proofing flooring you'll have to shell out an extra $45 a night and they're only available at hilton in san francisco hotels. >> you don't have to worry about hair, makeup, brushing your teeth. you can work out in your pajamas. the convenience factor is so, so important when you're trying to juggle and balance everything

>> other hotel chains are jumping on the fitness bandwagon. fairmont, afinia hotels located in new york city and d.c., they offer its guests bikes and helmets and free kits that include fitness gear and even hotels, it's a wellness lifestyle hotel. they offer inroom fitness equipment to their guests who request it. they do come with a price but hotels say they're not having a hard time selling this latest concept. >> just give me a big screen and a mini bar. coming up the extreme heat and radiation haven't been experienced by any space craft ever. how nasa plans to go where it's never been before? >> president trump said today he will decide very soon if he's going to withdraw from the paris agreement on climate change. we're going to explain what would happen

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president trump told reporters at the white house today that he will have a decision very soon on whether to withdraw from the global deal to cut greenhouse gases. kristen welker is working this story. good to see you again. is this -- is he really going to withdraw or is this a tactic for a renegotiation? >> reporter: great to see you too. based on our conversations here at the white house, two sources say he is leaning toward withdrawing. you raise an important point, what specifically does that look like. it's our understanding final language is being hammered out. no decision is final, though, until the president actually announces that. we've learned that havin

sometimes he changes his decision at the last minute. in terms of what is at stake, proponents of the paris climate agreement say it is critical for the environment, they say that last year the earth's temperature rose, the hottest year to date and they say that is only going to continue to increase and it'll get worse if the president decides to pull out of the paris climate agreement. that could lead to things like more storms like superstorm sandy. they say this is critical for the environment. they say it's critical for the united states and its allies with other world leaders. i was just with the president last week at the g7 summit when those leaders were pressuring him to stay in the deal but then you have the other side of the coin, wendy, a lot of his supporters want him to pull out. they feel there's too many regulations in the paris climate agreements and ultimately it could hurt the economy. one expert telling me, look, this doesn't have implications on the world stage but having

reality. this is an agreement between the united states and close to 200 other countries. the only major companies who aren't apart of this deal, syria and nicaragua. there is a sense among some critics that it would send the world that the world is not going to be a leader in addressing and dealing with climate change. >> thank you so much. we invite you to stay with us for more of kristen's reporting from the white house. you can watch the "nbc nightly news" with lester holt right after our broadcast here. >> nasa calls it humanities first mission to touch the sun. next year the space agency will launch a probe that will get closer to the sun than any manmade object in history. nasa says this will be the first time, that a space probe enters the sun's atmosphere or corona. they're hoping to answer questions about our sun, scientists want to know what causes the sun to blow wind and

plasma into space. it's scheduled to launch around next august. >> so cool. >> which is such a hot month on the sun. >> so you're now starting to use words like nice and looking ahead to the rest of the weekend. are these storms getting behind us and we can plan on froliching? >> take a look behind you right now. a very nice evening for most of us but we're still tracking a couple of storms out there right now. those storms moving closer toward the chesapeake. look at that shot. just a gorgeous shot across our region. current temperatures sitting in the 70s. 73 degrees right now. winds out of the southwest, 14-miles-per-hour and the rest of the area starting to rebound to the west. 76 in leesburg but 69 where we seen the rain in centreville, bowie also coming in around that 70 degrees mark and i'm tracking this storm.

thunderstorm around baltimore. this is the big one now. it was around bowie now moving into kwaufton. so heads up around annapolis and if you're just to the north of annapolis, watch out there as well. a lot of lightning. not severe here but farther to the south tracking this storm around the waldorf and la plata area right on down toward 301. this one will move into charles county into st. mary's county so heads up there too. we're seeing some heavier rain on the way to some lightning. you can see that these are starting to move out of the region. we do have another boundary back to the west. we'll track that too. could see a couple of showers back in here around 10:00, 11:00, 12:00. tomorrow very nice. 5i6r to start off the day, 76 sunny around noon. low humidity tomorrow, around 80 degrees. pretty much a perfect looking thursday across our region and starting the fti

hometown having the festival tomorrow. the weather looks great for the festival, tomorrow, friday and saturday, all looking good. sunday, maybe not so much. we've got another area of low pressure moving in. 84 degrees on your sunday. good chance of storms also on monday, showers and storms and then very unsettled and cool again in the middle of next week. that's something we'll be watching. whose going to the beach this weekend? if you are, take a look at that forecast for you real fast. beaches looking good. friday looking good. cooler on saturday and sunday, take the sweatshirts. just like last weekend. if you had the sweatshirts no problem. best chance for showers would be on sunday. there's your forecast, guys. i hope you will enjoy it. >> we did. >> nice. coming up in sports next while the refused skins workout are looking different this hf-season and

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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> so from 4-3. he won't play again till sunday. it's a quick decision which is good. >> a quick decision. it gets it over and tonight we can just watch baseball. the nationals they did not retaliate last night. they did not throw one of the giants players. they did however get some revenge in the form of a win and bryce harper today he gets a bit of what he wants which is a reduced sentence, free bryce, that's been the slogan for some. here of course and definitely out in san francisco he had s

fans. he was initialed received a four game suspension which he appealed. it's been cut to three games. harper was suspended and fined for charging the mound after being hit by a pitch on monday. giants pitcher was also fined and suspended six games. he's appealing. we do not know whether he's ban has been reduced. and that's a better defense, sherree burruss reports that side of the ball already getting a lot of attention. >> reporter: this year at otas the redskins defense is learning to play football. >> i feel like we do have more coaches who are more concerned with the details, do i have to know the formation and know what's going on, so more details, stuff like that. >> reporter: at this level they've already played the game for years but this time of around the coaching staff is takixt

the game. >> this time of year is the time to get that down. a lot of times once you will hit the season and talking about all the konchz and fronts and blitzes sometimes technique gets pushed to the back burner. this is a time where we really emphasize technique. we've done that since i've been here. >> reporter: the learning, a combination of revs on and off the field. >> being out in the field and doing what we have to do there. we have enough time. they're getting efficient reps in their heads once they go out. >> reporter: having the most catching up to do will be the sixth defensive rookie. sherree burruss, news4 sports. >> this is like christmas for me today. >> christmas in may for maryland head coach brenda, plan on the

connecticut's and now for the mystics, who won the 2006 national title. this game comes down to the wire guys. once down nine down in the fourth, now tied game. they go to alaina, gets them and one to go. she just 3 for 15 in the game. the mystics go on to win 78-76. switching gears to the french open. 27-year-old american steve johnson. he lost his dad unexpectedly a few weeks ago. his won his first match at the french open and today he wins again. a five set thriller, so emotional. look at his opponent, though.

>> oh, dear. >> slamming his racket down and on the way out he's still quite angry. >> oh, my goodness. he needs to be fined for that behavior. that's so bad. >> venus williams by the weigh she had a second round win at the french open. she kind of announced what her sister's having. someone's like what do you want her to call you and she's going to call me -- she's going to call me just thought you guys would want to know. >> slip. >> another budding female tennis star. >> i can't wait. >> did venus break her racket? >> i'm sure -- >> i am so sorry. i let the world know. >> she's in trouble. >> "nbc nightly news" is heading your way next. >> and we'll be back again today at 11:00.

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