continues to reform down around fredericksburg, take a look here. we saw a very strong storm around annapolis, that is now moving across the bay, in towards parts of carolina county. new severe thunderstorm watch for them, warning for them along the eastern shore there. once again if you're heading to the beach, yeah, you might want to rethink that just a little bit. down to the south, charles county under the gun. very heavy rain, right along 301. some lightning with this storm that's going to move right over, look at that storm right there that's moved over the bay. getting hit hard, as well. this will move right into king george county, as well, over the next half hour to hour. we've seen a lot of damage, a lot of trees down, a lot of power outages.

now, to the storm damage, take a look at this scene. 30 second street in northwest dc. a huge stree slammed on top of cars and home just about an hour ago, forcing everyone out of the house, nobody was hurt here. we're told the tree knocked down utility wires and we're getting reports of power outages throughout our region. news 4 stone continues our coverage from the scene. >> moments ago, i just received an update from dc fire ems stating that in northwest dc in this area relatively near military road. there are trees down, but they say this one behind me is the worst. you can see this tree is now fallen. it's on top of a subaru and if you move to the lit -- little to the left, it hit this house and then to the right, to the left, you'll see it also hit that house. the homeowner was inside the home with his wife, all of a sudden, he heard a b

just tell us real quick, what did you hear and what happened. >> it didn't sound that terrible. we heard just from a single coming down, the power immediately went off and then we started looking around trying to figure out what was going on. we saw -- it was raining very heavily and water was pouring through the roof in our attic and then into the room below that. >> i look at your home now and i can see that there is damage on your roof, water coming in to your home, you say, also you have your balcony that was hit. it's going to take some time to get all of that fixed. >> luckily nobody was hurt. no injuries, whatever, and, of course, we're looking forward to being able to get back in the house for the evening. yeah, it's going to be a long process to get this all -- this mess fixed. >> i want to thank you for taking the time to speak with us. i hope you can work everything out, all right. >> got to deal with it. >> all right. john martin, ladies and gent

there are some power outages in the area. we will continue to bring you updates as they become available on our nbc washington app and our twitter and facebook page at nbc washington. live here in northwest dc, i'm shamri stone, back to you. >> thank you. shamri. >> here is another tree that's fallen, look at this, this is in dc. this tree also, as you can see, now is leaning over and hasn't hit the ground or anything. that's going to be hazardous situation and somebody is going to get in there and clean it up soon. keep us posted on things like this and may be happening in your neighborhood let us know what's going on and make sure you download the app to get updates this your neighborhood at any time. >> only on news 4. two mothers are on a mission to find out why dump truck driver was

the same driver was involved in a second accident earlier this week. left a young woman badly injured. the man injured in the first crash suffered serious brain injuries. pat collins talked with the mothers of both victims who are looking for answers tonight. pat. >> doreen, two people seriously hurt. when you're run over by dump trucks. they're owned by the same company. dump trucks driven by the same man. the victim's families, well, they have some questions. >> went from being a vibrant mountain climbing, swimming, active, energetic young man to someone who was for a season completely incapacitated. >> that's allison zimmerman. it was november 2015 that her 22-year-old son e

over by a dump truck on florida avenue northeast. . he's a warrior. he has a ton of courage. we've still got a long way to go. >> charged with hit-and-run in that case. ismael alvarez. while he was out awaiting trial for that. sources say alvarez was involved in another serious accident. it happened last tuesday. alvarez, they say, was behind the wheel of another fort meyer dump truck when it ran over a woman on south dakota avenue. she's been identified as 23-year-old bianca butler. she told her family the truck ran a stop sign and hit her in the crosswalk. family wants to know while alvarez was still driving dump

trucks. >> when on top of the damage that you call in his family, you're under criminal investigation. >> now, we've tried, but so far no response from fort myer construction. alvarez still awaiting trial in that 2015 hit-and-run charge in the south dakota avenue accident, well, that's still under investigation there's a lot more to be known here. >> collins reporting live. >> hundreds of protesters are marching 28 miles into dc, first in blistering heat today and now in the heavy rain out there, all to protest the national rifle association.

are leading a two-day long demonstration against the gun rights group. this all started outside the nra headquarters in fairfax, virginia this morning and it's set to end late tonight at the department of justice. northern virginia bureau chief has been following along. she reports now from arlington. >> there is per sis stens and resistance, let's keep it up. the reasons for joining this women's march, polly's reason, pictured on a sign she held high. >> this is my niece. she was born and raised in annapolis. >> it's been five years since sarah was shot to death by a boyfriend while away at grad school. the message from peters and the other demonstrators, well, the nra might have dominated the conversation about guns in the past, their voice is growing. intensifying. >> there's going to be no piece in my li.

there isn't. >> the nra long silence. the minneapolis man was shot by a police officer during a traffic shot, a registered gun owner, said he had a weapon in the car. >> it's so important that the nra show their support of castile and the fact they haven't, shows, there's real and systemic racism and that is a problem. >> where was the nra statement for that. this is not right. we're still invisible to them. >> just across the street from the demonstrators, gun's right group called patriot. there's some common ground, some of their signs mourn the pulse nightclub victims. they say the problem is not with guns. >> the person has violence in their body, they're going to have a gun, bat, use a car run over police officer, run it into a group of people. we have a societal problem, not a

started the day talking about resistance, it took a lot of r persistence to keep marching enduring both high temperatures and then a thunderstorm. in arlington, julie carey, news 4. >> chopper 4 flew over the scene of a deadly crash in charles county. it's still not clear what caused it but we know what happened before noon on rock pount road. >> in the developing story, we've been sharing this story on our facebook page, a camel attack. that's in charles county fairgrounds. investigators tell us a camel bit and trampled a man this afternoon. he's been air lifted to maryland shock trauma center. a circus is in town performing at the fairgrounds and the victim is the camel's handler. he has a head injury and we're

condition. >> a former con gragsal staffer indicted for new photos and videos of a delegate and her husband on line. joins us now with the detail of how. >> the alleged target was not named in the indictment. but congressional delegates released a statement last night thanking police and saying she was the victim of egregious acts. so according to investigators here is how it unfolded, mccollum offered to help his boss. he took the phone to an apple store in dc. authorities say the device had the images on it that would later be linked on line. prosecutors allege mccollum created hot mail and facebook accounts under a fake name then sent the images to politicians, reporters, and other people who knew the

he even friended the challengers in her upcoming primary contest. now, a couple of years ago, mccollum was featured on the hills a most beautiful people list and about 10 years ago he appeared on a reality tv show on vh 1 called, i love new york. grand jury has charged with two counts of cyber stalking. a second staffer has also been indicted for obstruction of justice and lying to police as they were investigating this case, doreen brown lewis pleaded not guilty. she'll be back in court next week. >> attacked on the job. up next the new clues as police searched for a man who beat a driver while bus was in motion. >> jury deliberations underway, that wedding day murder case, a caterer stabbed to death after heated confrontation. the suspect has te r tesfied ti

still seeing that rain here around the dc metro area. it should move out by 6:00. this is the area down to the south that we're now watching. that line that came through a lot of power outages, a lot of trees down in and around our area now shifted the to the south and east. look at the heavy rain, charles county, down towards saint mary's county. king george county under the

area. watch out, this is going to move in towards charles county, into saint mary's county very quickly. it's this storm right here. down to the south. look at mechanicsville. you'll see it encompasses parts of westmoreland county. we'll continue to watch these storms through the night. we're starting to finally calm as we move on through the weekend. >> back to white house deep in controversy. we begin with new information on that preelection meeting at trump tow we are we've heard so much about. >> nbc news was the first to report that a former silivia counter intelligence officer was also part of that. his name, he's a russian american lobbyist now, he denies he ever worked for russian spy agencies. although some u.s. officials believe an eviction has on going

he accompanied a russian lawyer to that meeting. also, present in that meeting, donald trump, jr.. >> this feels liex a tipping point week for a couple of reasons. number one, this is now donald trump, jr., at least expressing an open, there have never, hey, where is there the their there, that's looking like a their. then you had this excruciating six-day dragging the facts out of the

trump, jr. expedition here that we in the press core were essentially dealing with here and the fact they had to keep changing their story over and over again, then gives you -- it shows there's a willingness to mislead. suddenly, you. >> it's being reconsidered having a change of sf 864 with three times now. he goes with having zero meetings. >> not just russia. >> yes. thank you for clearing that up. >> you've got that. there's also, you know, so much toxicity, it seems like,

>> that's the issue here. there clearly is some contention between the kushner legal team and the president's legal team there is a bit of shakeup going on. making it his lead. >> and there's also clearly tension between both the president jared kushner and the rest of the white house team. they would like to see the official white house staff be participating in pushing back more on crisis communications, many of the staffers are sitting there going, all of whom, but one, by the one, jared kushner, is the only west wing staffer who was on the campaign back in june. everybody else, they're afraid of it. they don't want to end up getting into this, so you have -- that's created this chaotic feeling

of a trust issue going on here. and more importantly, there's also this, you have the president frustrate thadd he can't seem to be able to talk about anything else other than this. >> they look like they're repealing and and replacing. >> there's a special carve out created. more money, a little more change, ohio, again. >> home -- insurances, changes for ted cruz. >> so, the problem is when you build a bill that way, boy that's politically tough of

>> really were all about the medicaid expansion, that didn't change. >> i think. it's not even voted on. i think that --. >> john, we'll talk health care. republican in the senate. we'll talk russia, president's legal team and mark warner who is still vice chair in the intel committee. >> meet the press, airs sunday morning at 10:30 here

thank you, chuck. >> major recalls involving some of the most popular cars on the road. we'll break down the consumer alert impacting millions of drivers. >> explosion outside a local police officers's home. how colleagues are stepping in to help as investigators trying to figure out what sparked the flames.

we still have our eye on this weather day. look at this new video coming in. this was a fire that was sparked by a lightning strike. they tweeted out this video. this is from northwest. the roof deck on this structure caught fire, but right now everything is under control and the good thing is no one was hurt. >> doug and amelia are in storm center four with a look at what's happening right now and what we can expect from the weekend ahead. >> hi, guys. >> i'll tell you what, the weekend ahead looking quite nice. we're still tracking that line, strong storms all moving down in southern maryland. most of us now out of the watch. >> most of us are in the clear now for severe thunderstorms. the humidity level, they're still pretty tie. >> we could see another warning there. but notice around the dc

area, seeing some rain. it's coming down pretty good in places, but down to the south, saint mary's county, charles county, around leonard town, colonial beach that's where the storm is right now. crossing over the patomic and make its way into southern charles and in towards central saint mary's county over the next hour or so, another storm back to the west just south still making its way in here. that's part of the same line that came through our region a little bit earlier. the storm it's still back to the west making its way our way. we can see a couple of showers maybe a rumble of thunder. we're no longer worried about at least nothing like what we saw earlier where we had numerous trees down in parts of fairfax

county. >> well, not quite, but it will be a lot better. taking a look at what you can expect from this weekend humidity wise. >> over night tonight into tomorrow morning, we'll start to see the levels come down. it's still going to be muggy out there tonight. as we see the evening we're on and rain moves out. . so this afternoon, you can see our humidity levels in that oppressive range, for the weekend, only a little bit humid feeling much more comfortable than we have been the last few days. next week, the humidity returns, but your saturday, again, the humidity levels lower over night tonight into tomorrow morning. we start off at 75 degrees not super comfortable. but, doug, i think we can agree it's better than

>> what a difference it makes, too, you know, 90 degrees and 100 degree heat index, that's a lot different with that lower humidity. it's going to be comfortable. that's what we expect. average high temperature 89 degrees. . if you think about. look at thursday and friday. high of 97. but the pattern sets up here, the pattern sets up here to be even hotter than we were today and yesterday and we hit 97 both days. we could be around 100. that's something we'll really watch. look at 98 degrees next sunday. if you're heading to the beach, a little bit of relief out there, i think we'll see a pretty good forecast out

>> let's leave now for the beach. >> let's leave that on the screen. >> we'll see you in a few minutes. bus driver attacked on the job. see video captured in the moments after as police try to zero in on a suspect. >> jury deliberations going on for more than four hours now over the fate of fairfax county park employee accused of murdering a wedding caterer, we're live at the courthouse where that verdict could come any moment.

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a jury in fairfax county has been deliberating kemp ton bonds's fate for nearly five hours now. he's accused of murder stabbing a caterer to death during a wedding last summer. >> david cull ver is at the white house. >> leon, and doreen if you've been following me on twitter this is the third question now in as many hours. this third question has to do with voluntary manslaughter. this may give us an idea to what

one before that was asking about involuntary manslaughter, they seem to be focused on manslaughter. that being said, they're going through a lot of evidence, four days worth of testimony, all of that evidence and today, alone, they had more than two hours for some emotionally charged closing arguments. >> jurors sent into the deliberation room with video, evidence to watch over and over. >> go away until we got done. >> i haven't moved. i've moved from there to here to there. >> i'm about to -- you up and i swear to go on my wedding day. >> reported last august. the then 19-year-old park employee supervising a clean up of a wedding, the prosecutor telling jurors, he is taunt egg them and antagonizing them. listen to their tone. condescending the prosecutor argued. these people to him were beneath him. towards the end of the nearly seven-minute video, the deadly encounter, the wedding cater, johns comes face

bonds. >> what happened. >> you hit a girl? >> oh, you stabbed me. >> that's bringing a knife to a fistfight, the prosecutor argued. it's a three-inch blade he stuck it into her and that knife pierced her heart. he was going for death. the defense, leaving jurors with a different impression. >> she attacked him, she launched herself at him the feds attorney argued. he was on the receiving in on felony strangulation. he had been the victim of verbal assaults. within seconds, vaughns called 911 telling the dispatcher he was defending himself. >> you stabbed somebody. >> telling juries, ladies and gentlemen, i'm glad for kemp ton bonds that he had that knife, because i'm afraid of what would have happened to him had he not. >> reporter: i was in the courtroom about 15 minutes ago when the judge told the court that he's not sure how much longer he'll all

he was hoping they would be wrapped up by today. he knows of course he can't rush it. he'll reassess it over the next hour or so and keep you posted, doreen. >> david cull ver, a police officer's colleagues are pulling together after an explosive house fire shook a montgomery county neighborhood over night. the fire started outside the officer's home on haney avenue. and spread to a police cruiser parked in the driveway. am hue in addition stowed inside that patrol car, exploded. the house was engulfed in flames. the officer and his wife were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but they escaped serious injury. investigators are still working to learn what caused the fire. their job is complicated by the extensive damage. the officers colleagues are holding a fund-raiser for the family and we have a link to that on our app. >> what you're seeing here is the video first on news 4 of a confession caught on camera inside a montgomery county bus. this man

attacked another driver and now police need you to help you find him. derrick just spoke to the victim. >> this attack happened when the bus was moving? >> indeed it is. >> reporter: it happened just back here. we're outside a shady grove station. and there are two instances here, one where the video failed, but another where the video surveillance is on board these buses did indeed come through and authorities are hoping that that incident will help them bring a man accuse of assault to justice. >> stitches, swollen eye and a cast on his arm. montgomery county driver, has yet to heel from the injuries. police say they came at the hands of this man seen on another bus shortly after the attack, in which words quickly turned to blows. they reigned on the driver while the bus was still moving with other passengers aboard. >> he punched,

how many times, i don't remember. >> he does remember trying to use a radio phone on board the bus to call for help. instead, police say it was used on the driver as a weapon. >> the suspect grabbed the phone from the bus driver and began assaulting him with the phone. >> attack continued. >> i stopped the bus and opened the door. >> as when the suspect got off the bus and got away. amazingly, that same suspect boarded another ride on the bus short time later. again, he's talking to the droo driver but it's a completely different. >> i do not believe the bus driver had any knowledge. >> it was captured on video surveillance on board the bus. unfortunately the cameras on the bus where the driver was attacked weren't working. they were asking for anyone who may have taken the ride on tuesday around midnight on the 55 route between rockville and german town. >> if anybody recognizes the suspect we're asking to call our detectives. >> aou

is still feeling the effects of his ordeal. >> i hurt. i hurt. >> reporter: now he says he's focused on healing and getting back to work. an official with amdot who is responsible -- agency is responsible for the buses. tells us the safety of passengers and drivers are of utmost concern and usually try to make sure those campers are in working condition. they say require maintenance, in this instant, looks like that camera that failed wasn't properly maintained. we're live outside shady grove station. >> derrick, thank you. and, alternative for people waiting for a perfect match, why a half match could deliver the same results for those in need of a bone harrow transplant. consumer alert as they announce recalls impacting some of the most popular cars on the road right now. >> still tracking the storms, making their way into southern maryland, saint mary's county, eastern shore and

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of a fire risk. the chrysler 300 dodge charger and challenger and dodge durango. model years 2011 to 2014. plus the jeep grand cherokee 2012 through 2014. you can find all of these recalls and a lot more information on these on our nbc washington app just want to search call recalls, back to you. >> before the only cure was a bone marrow transplant, finding a perfect match could take years. they know about the firsthand. she spent years waiting for a match, until doctors at children's national medical center tried a half match procedure. now, she's got her whole life ahead of her. >> no more, you know, being afraid to get in the pool with

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half a million dollars with many residents working at dulles airport, louden county public schools and department of homeland security. it comes at close second and arlington county in virginia and montgomery. . this year they've added more venues and more opportunities to learn. >> but the purpose for the festival remains the same. to celebrate what happened when thousands of americans of every color and creed gathered at the lincoln memorial to stand up for justice and equality. news 4 barbara harrison has more. >> what is a standard classic hip-hop album. >> these are scenes from some of the 12 films selected as finalists from the more than

on washington film festival. now, it's fifth year here in the nation's capitol, the festival was launched to honor the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. >> festival executive producer. >> what we do in the festival is take civil rights and see how it has effected or applied to different aspects of life. we'll be covering civil rights and entertainment, women of the movement, politics. >> among those hoping to learn more about the legacy, a journalism student from this area is a student from american university. >> student journalist competition and we went to many schools in this washington d.c.

part of this master class internship. >> i applied. i submitted some of my articles and i'm honored they liked some of my stuff. >> the articles in his senior year in baltimore won him a spot. >> it was a blind application. we did not know who these young people were. so similar to our film maker competition and they see the application in their own lives. >> it's the story to make sure all of them are there. to participate in a program that's doing that very thing, a whole program dead caded to making sure all the voices are heard. >> journalism of the career in medicine.

and they will have the opportunity to cover the festival in all its aspects. >> there are so many immigrants and minorities that are fighting for their rights. i think it's very important for journalists to make sure that their stories are told and that to make sure that we're looking and finding those voices that maybe are not getting as much attention. >> the festival is already underway. it runs ten days in all through july 22nd. there are also some well-known guests that will lead discussions on topics that are part of the legacy and civil rights movement. for more information, head to our web site for a link to the march on washington festival guide. they've got a little of everything. even food i was there with the kick off. how important it is for young people to be the ones that are

perpetuat perpetuated. >> most of them in school right now were not around. >> keep that story alive. thank you, barbara. >> thank you. >> let's go back to doug in the storm center with the latest on weather these storms are going to give us a break now. >> finally starting to. still a couple in our area. but most of us now are done with the severe weather. most of us now done with the rain. still some light rain in and around the dc metro area moving down to the south and

>> colonial beach right over, seeing the heavy rain right into parts of saint mary's county. not looking at anything too strong or severe, but this is the strongest storm. it's going to move right around leonard town down to the south. so if you live in extreme southern saint mary's county, watch out down there, down that way. . saturday and sunday will be very very nice. monday and tuesday, much better chance of scattered showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms. on wednesday going up to 93.

the heat. by the way, take a look. this is going to be a long heat wave. we've seen quite a bit in the way of 90s next week into the 90s, even around 100 degrees next thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. real big heat coming in next week, so enjoy the weekend. the weekend, very odd that when you say this, the weekend, the best weather in the next ten days. >> we should get a break with the timing. >> i think we've earned it. don't you. now time for him and the rest to get back to work. >> a look at what's ahead on nbc nightly news. >> coming up for us tonight, the other participants in the russian meeting involving donald trump, jr. raising still more questions from florida an entire neighborhood sitting on the brink of disaster but a new call

>> don't knock on the all star game. but now time to get back to the real thing. >> did you enjoy the all star break. >> it was a good one. >> yeah, it was. >> it was a good game, too. that's right. the all star break we finally have some baseball again. both in action tonight. that's cincinnati began

nl east. got a little news that's not too encouraging. the team placed on the right elbow sprain. you remember he had to come out due to the pain. . begins tonight with four games against the reds and it's over to the west to take on the angels. they finished up the nine-game road trip with the arizona diamondbacks and finally returned home july 25th, hosting the brewers. talked about the plans to replace joe ross before tonight's game. >> i think that we have some internal options that we're going to try first that we're comfortable with and then we'll just -- we'll evaluate it from there and see where we go. >> i don't want to speculate on things and i don't want to think the worst. you know, so we're preparing for it

dropped by to discuss his take on the situation. >> they don't believe he's that type, but they should we're talking in the whole scheme of things, we're talking to 2 to $3 million a year. for the most part, top level quarterbacks. when they get

looking for the eighth wimbledon championship. summer league action, wizards taking on the timberwolves, daniel house junior wrapping up. he goes right to the hole, finishes off the glass, more wizards' offense fining michael young right here in the post, missing the lay up and devin robinson with a huge put back, final seconds of the half. have to have a little drama here. 5'9" from deep and it's good. beats the buzzard. wizards go on to lose 80 to 73 and wrap up summer league at 0-5. tonight wizards made another deal to sure up the roster two-way contract. he'll attend training camp. a deal of the own signing o'bryant to a

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♪ tonight, the mystery man. new revelations about that trump team meeting with a russian lawyer. turns out others were also in the room including, as nbc news was first to report, a former soviet counterintelligence sergeant. and what was contained in that document the lawyer brought to the meeting? killer's accomplice. a second man now charged in four murders after his cousin's confession. tonight the chilling new details in the case. massive sinkhole caught on camera. a house swallowed into the ground. neighbors evacuated as more homes are threatened. deadly chases. new pressure on police in a major american city to better protect the public when they're in hot pursuit. and crimson classic.