here is what we're dealing with this morning. roads washed out, cars stranded and a whole lot of water. storm team 4 tracking what's doing to be a soggy saturday. it's weather alert day and timing means everything as you plan your weekend. >> feels nice to be indoors and dry for a moment. a lot of rain coming down. >> we've got a lot. of course, the flooding concerns out there. >> it's doing to be an issue today as we welcome you in saturday morning 28th of july beside my friend

good to have you here. >> good to be here. let's get right to the weather. storm team meteorologist lauryn ricketts, good morning. >> good morning. it's a treacherous morning if you're out and about out roadways we are looking at more rain. let's head to the map and show you what's depending on. it's a cloudy, gloomy july saturday morning outside. you can see we've got flood watches in place, flood warnings in place as well. flash flood watch, warnings because rivers and streams at flood stage, just approaching flood stage, this what we're continuing to watch. more rain headed our way. more rain through the shenandoah valley right now. this is the area of rain i'm going to be watching to come right through our area as we go through the next several hours. we'll be timeing that out show you when

coming up. a whole lot of rain causing problems especially on the road. first responders urging you not to drive through the spots you see standing water. >> derrick ward live near tilledon street near peirce mill in northwest d.c. tell us how roads are looking behind you. it looks bad. >> reporter: yeah. this is what we're going to be looking for later on and worried about. further up they had closing. can you see why. this the power of rock creek. take a look. if you look at the bridge support, that tells you how high the water was at the height of this incident. as you can see it's still pushing through. if you look, you can see it actually breached this wall and left some on top of it, on the trail. if you look back in the

the dams. this is why we're seeing those road closings over the next few hours as we're expecting more rain why these low-lying roads will be something to watch and something to be careful with if you're going to be traveling to them. right now not a problem. with more rain coming this may go actually a little higher. live, long rock creek darrick ford back to you. >> that you to southeast d.c. heavy rain forced bouts a dozen people out of their homes this morning. all that water caused part of a basement wall to collapse inside that apartment building. on d street southeast. d.c. fire officials tweeted this out. the building not safe to go back into. while no one got hurt we know the red cross is helping those folks find a temporary dry space to stay. many told to slow down as rain flooded down. flooded roadways forced self pe

of the water, hee water there. first responders say you should never drive through standing water. we say it all the time here. in wheaton, some campers at the brookside nature center swelled over its banks. >> you'd think you'd be good inside. >> you'd think. >> the washington mystics postponed as rain started to leak in. viewer tweeting these photos when the water started to come in from the roof. the team said it was worried about player safety. the makeup date not yet announced. this also bethe way happened in 2014 as a wizards game there. other news of the day, a group will try to block a controversial project in prince william county. the alliance is upset over plans to put up voltage power lines along carver road in gainesville. a historic black neighborhood. many residents are descendants of freed slaves who

properties in the 1800s. they feel the power lines will affect their use of the land. on centreville road in herndon at 11:00. turning to politics now and there is a lot it talk about, especially a major shake-up at the white house. chief of staff reince priebus is out. >> following a rant by new white house communications director anthony scaramucci. a reaction to the change abruptly announced on twitter. >> reporter: reince priebus is officially out as president trump's chief of staff. priebus submitted his resignation thursday. a source close to priebus said he's had enough. president trump announced on twitter naming homeland security secretary john kelly as a replacement. in a tweet he said, he's a great american, a great leader, the star of my

star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great american. >> of priebus the president tweeted, we accomplished a lot together and i am proud of him. afterward priebus continuing to support the president in an interview on cnn. >> i think it's smart for him to pick kelly and i think things will be run. >> reporter: priebus a longtime president insider but clashed with the president's inner circle. the move comes after days of escalating tension in the west wing and speculation of a shake-up after communications director anthony skampl slammed priebus in a profanity laden tirade making front page headlines. the white house said the change had been in the works for two weeks and had nothing to do with scaramucci. this leaves a hole in president trump's administration. he will have to appoint a new secretary

of homeland security. of course that appointment will have to be confirmed by the u.s. senate which is set to go on recess in two weeks. in washington, nbc news. while political drama around here is seemingly unending, you may say, he's got to break from presidential campaigning. think again. nearly 1200 days before 2020, john delaney said he's going to be candidate. he wants to be the next commander in chief to boost economy. he's a moderate, former banker and one of the richest members in the house. he slammed trump administration for destructive partisanship. delaney currently represents maryland, frederick and montgomery counties. he's not expected to run for re-election next year. prince george's county state's attorney is planning to run for county executive. she plans to formally announce her bid on monday in camp springs. sh

that includes state senator anthony muse, husband of news anchor pat lawson muse. baker can't run because of term limits. he's running for governor pence. time is 6:08 as we look on storm team 4 radar. notice that? a lot of green headed our way. person tracking it, lauryn ricketts. she'll tell you about some of the flooded roads we can expect and how soon the end will be. it will be soon. we'll see an end to all this

prince william county police are on the lookout for a man they say tried to abduct a young girl. they say just before 4:00 a man came up to a 10-year-old girl while she was walking her dog on heather glen court in woodbridge. the girl

that's when the dog bit the man, he ran away. the girl was not hurt. >> water seems to be the theme around here but after months of repairs one place is opening nice and dry. little falls library. a waterline broke and it was quite a mess. it's officially set to open back up at 10:00 this morning. next moment the real official opening. county executive is going to cut a ribbon for the renovated library. keep that umbrella close by today. talking more wet weather coming through this morning. lauryn tracking another round of rain and how soon these showers will start to clear up. the end, it's near.

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while we continue to see rain showers out there, temperatures in the low 70s. that's where we're going to stay through the morning, upper 60s, low 70s. that's pretty much where we're going to stay for the remainder of the day, cloudy, gloomy day and wet. we have flooding issues out there right now. we have a little important rain to get through before it's all said and done and we can go on with our weekend. we have sunshine for the weekend. i'll let you know when you can see sunshine coming up in just about three minutes. thanks, la

with another award, the president's award at the national press center here in d.c. last night for outstanding service to jusournalism and thi community. vance died a few weeks ago after a short battle with cancer. our news director accepted the award on vance's behalf. also recognized at that ceremony, the parents of a d.c. journalist who was shot and killed. >> sharnise milton she died several years ago. whoever pulled the trigger, never been caught. news 4 reports. >> reporter: recognized with a stand ovation at the national press club's journal award, the parents of charnice milton, a reporter for capital community news killed may 27th, 2015 as she waited for a bus on good hope southeast.

recovering a community meeting for capital news. the parents said the police told them the intended target of the shooting grabbed her and used her for a human shield. >> i never had a chance to make those big by lines, working and waiting for the break when she was tragically taken away from us. >> reporter: police released these atv riders as persons of interest. despite wide dissemination no arrests have been made. milton's express expressed gratitude at the national press club saying it keeps her memory alive. >> i was very excited that her piers recognized her strength and her commitment to the community and how important she was to washington, d.c., and to the world. >> she really

much further. she had it in her. it hurts my heart to think she won't be there. >> reporter: a further tribute to milton is under way, a bookstore to be named for her that would be the first of its kind east of the anacostia river. at the national press club jackie bensen, news 4. >> nice tribute there. ford is trying to figure out why some police officers are getting sick in the company's vehicles will the police department in austin, texas, is now pulling all of its ford explorer police cruisers off the streets. it comes after more than 60 officers filed complaints about exposure to carbon monoxide. the officer's chief said they started having trouble with exhaust fumes in february. >> twenty of those officers had a measurable level of carbon monoxide in their system when tested and three of those are currently on a no duty status. >> ford

the suvs made after they were bought may have led to the exhaust related issues. the federal government is also now investigating. >> your girls ready to head back to school. >> one told me that yesterday. i was shocked. she said she was board at home. >> my gosh. step it up. >> i know. >> most are not ready to go back but folks are getting in gear for is. nbc 4 supporting our schools with annual backpack for kids today. >> i know. you can help by bringing brand-new backpacks and school supplies to our collection event. it's at the woodmore town center in maryland from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. we're setting up directly across from the jcpenney store in the parking lot. our prince dpoernlgs county bureau chi -- prince george's county bureau chief will be out there, also accept checks and cash for supplies

go to search supporting our schools. so important to start off out of the gate. >> prepared. maybe your daughter was board because she had to be inside all day, that rain. >> that was a big factor. >> today will continue. >> not a good pool day, i'll tell you that much. not only because of the rain, it's chilly out there. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. that's unheard of for july. i don't know if we're going to take it, that's what we're dealt with this morning. we do have flood warnings out there still. i do believe that's going to be the case as we go through the remainder of the morning, the day. it's weather alert for this morning. please be careful if you need to get out and about because we still have rain showers rolling through the area. of course flooding is still going to be a concern as rivers and streams kin to rise. now, we do have a little bit of tranquil weather coming up. it's going to be very quiet as we get into sunday pretty much all through next weekil

current temperatures a little chilly shenandoah valley 60s, low 70s in d.c. don't think we're going to move too far from that. these are flood watches and warnings. let me break it down for you. what we have in the dark green that's shaded for everybody. flash flood watch. that goes until early this afternoon. neon green you see here, those are flood warnings. it's not necessarily raining in these shots, storm team 4 radar coming up. this just means streams and rivers are going to continue to rise. most of these streams and rivers at flood stage already, approaching flood stage and they will continue to as long as we have rain especially if we get a little more runoff. we could have more flooding concerns as we continue through the day. you can see a lot of areas dry. we are starting to see a little more rain enter shenandoah valley at this point. we've got the tail end of this system out to the west in west virginia. that's going to continue to rotate through our area as it moves off the coast. we've already had a lf

man, my totals went down because i had it over the last 24 hours. gaithersburg had 4 inches of rain. here in d.c. 2 inches of rain. we'll geoff you some totals coming up in a minute. you know how much rain we had, a lot of rain that came down. here we go. by noon you can see rain rotate through the area. start to taper off middle to later part of the afternoon. then it's out of here. we keep the cloud cover through much of the day, clearing overpass setting us up through sunday. sunday looks absolutely fantastic. thank goodness. today's forecast 70s. it is going to be breezy as well. that's another thing. north winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. not only periods of rain, we're also going to have breezy conditions. for tomorrow it is going to be absolutely gorgeous. temperatures top out in the mid-80s with plenty of sunshine and low humidity. we keep that humidity in check on monday as well as temperatures start to go back up. a touch of humidity on tuesday and wednesday and thursday. temperatures around 90. next cha

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back with you at 6:24 this morning. they served our country alongside the men. now women's veterans without a home need your help this week. >> want to chip in? there's a fun way you and your family can help out. for months now final absolute renovating a home to house

homeless veterans and their kids. more than 2 million served, they deal with everything men deal with, ptsd, disabilities to facing a lacking in certain job skills. they also have additional battles they face, big challenges, things like military sexual trauma and limited veteran programs to them. most-of-those are only open to men. of the women who are divorced or separated, most of them have custody of their children. as with many construction projects, the repair have not gone as planned. in may we told you about an online fundraiser that gave the nonprofit a boost, but construction keeps hitting road blocks. >> the permitting process has presented some challenges some didn't definitely envision, so we appreciate support working through those challenges. we appreciate what fairfax county has done. we help if there's anything additional they can do to

that spoke consideration. a new plant to raise awareness in cash, so as to make the home a reality. >> so on sunday, supporting homeless women's and children, having their 49ers annual parkser vent, a picnic at lake fairfax park. there will be food served. there will be bouncy houses, face painting, cornhole, basketball games. so it's a really family oriented event. it's just for you to come and have fun and, again, meet the area veterans and their children. >> that fundraising event happening sunday from noon to 5:00 at lake fairfax. pets are welcome. >> the director reminded me, it's doing to be pretty nice weather for that event. tickets available at final salutes website. for more information on that, search final absolute in the nbc washington app. >> you might need to have a towel ready at your door if you're taking the dog out this morning. those paws, they might get a little muddy. lauryn is upd

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as we approach 6:30, see that? get used to this sight. soaked roads, heavy downpours and a wet weekend ahead. >> storm team 4 tracking heavy rains and the next b

>> i'm david culver alongside mollette green. a lot of folks got the bucket out, including here we've got some buckets going. hurt us at 11:00. >> yes and some family members of mine have been dealing with leaking ceilings as well. a lot of rain. we didn't need that rain, did we, lauryn l lauryn ricketts? >> no, not at once. we need some rain in the dog days of summer but all at once like that, see what happened. all that flooding yesterday. 3 3/4" of rain here in the d.c. area, that was a record. also baltimore set a record as well. received 2 1/2 inches. baltimore getting a little light rain. a little light rain in the shenandoah valley. we're going to continue to see some rain showers as the tail end of this system finally pushes through the area, the tail end of that system still out in west virginia. so it's going to re

our area as we go through the morning. could drop isolated inch in some spots, most less than that. we don't need rain, flash flood watches in the green. flood warnings in the neon green because of the stage rivers and streams reach flood stage. a little bit of rain is not much to take this once again over the edge. watch that throughout the morning. some nice weather on the way. we'll talk about when you can see that everybody wants to see that coming up. like the sound of that, lauryn, thank you. you will likely notice a lot of first responders out on the road this morning. they have been working overpass to get to emergencies like standing water trees down, power outages. in prince george's county fire crews added staff to help with problems. in montgomery county a creek flooded beach drive near connecticut avenue and even in the district some people were left in the dark after the power lines crashed down. >> i want to take you overseas now with what the united nations is working on this mog.

north korea. all of this follows the north's second test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile this month. the latest missile landed, get this, within 230 miles of japan's coast. the u.s. and south korea, they responded within hours this morning with its own test missile launch on the south korean coast. experts say this latest missile from the north was powerful enough to reach much of the u.s. pretty scary there. you think it ends with north korea, you're wrong. there's growing tension between the u.s. and russia. the white house now saying president trump intends to sign a bill imposing new sanctions on russia. >> moscow is hitting back, seizing u.s. diplomatic properties. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard eppingel more. >> reporter: from above it hardly looks like a place to be at the center of a diplomatic row between washington and the kremlin but thesi

unassuming retreat from american diplomats and a storage facility the embassy uses. the american country house outside moscow is now gated shut. over the next month and a half russia says itting be sending hundreds of americans home, putting the cap on the number of americans who can serve in this country at 455. the fact number of russian diplomats who serve in the u.s. it's russia's punishment for sanctions passed overwhelmingly by congress. >> the united states of america naeds needs to scene a strong message to vladimir putin and any other aggressor that we will not tolerate attacks on our democracy. >> reporter: it's also a delayed retaliation for similar seizures and expulsions by president obama last year, his response to russia's election meddling. back them on the eve of the election, russia didn't responsibility. now officials like

increasingly call trump weak and ineffective. >> seems to me he's really prisoner of the white house. >> reporter: u.s. embassy said it's been informed about the loss of its house and personnel cap and registered a complaint. richard engel, nbc news, moscow. time is 6:34 on saturday. he hit a man with his police cruiser, got convicted but won't serve time in prison. privilege juan heshds followed a suspect into a field and slammed spoke him with his cruiser. it's tough to watch, looks bad, but the suspect didn't get hurt too badly. he could have gotten ten years in prison. instead, here is what he got, a suspend to do jail sentence of two years yesterday meaning he's not going to go behind bars. he is doing to have to serve two years of probation plus 100 hours of community service. an offensive shirt worn by a d.c. officer is

eyebrows this morning. the group law for black lives filing complaints after it saw an officer wearing a shirt, that shirt right there, in court. the website tweeted out yesterday. according to defamation league the symbol you see is used by white supremacist groups. responded and said the shirt was disgraceful and does not represent the department. at 26 years old he survived a deployment to iraq. then when he returned home to arlington, a seemingly random shooting took his life. now his family is donating the reward money raised in his case. they are doing it to help other victims' family members heal. >> a check presentation without much smiling. when lydia robertson's family raised this money 11 years ago, they hoped they would be handing the check off in exchange for some sense of closure.

they wanted desperately to lead them to her little brother paul zeller's killer. >> also think about the senselessness, frustration of not knowing why. >> reporter: why did someone target paul in the early morning of july 30th, 2006. here is what we know. the 26-year-old iraq war veteran finished work in maryland that night. took metro, stopped into harris teeter. store cameras record him leaving. >> reporter: after leaving harris teeter, her brother had cigarettes and mountain dew he just bought. he was walking along this path, continuing up a few steps from where we are. up ahead at the world market, that's where shotses rupg out. the motive? it wasn't robbery, nothing was taken from him. >> nothing inis

that would lead to the crime. >> even a decade deep, this family not giving up finding paul's killer. >> if it doesn't help him, maybe it can help another family and solve something tragic that's happened to another family. >> which brings us back to that giant check donated to arlington county crime solvers. >> remembering what happened with paul. >> while painful, paul's family figures if they have to keep waiting to find his killer, it doesn't mean another victim's family shouldn't find healing. >> one selfless family. >> thank you for that. if you're going to take metro, some changes you should know about. on red ling, bethesda and medical center will be closed. on the yellow line, no service between reagan national and d.c. to get in and out of the city, take the blue line and transfer at the plaza.

how you can find out who has not listened to lauryn ricketts forecast? they are the person outside with no hat, no umbrella, soaked. how you can avoid getting caught

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their until 2018. keep four things handy as you make your plans today. you need rain boots, an umbrella, a jacket, and storm team 4. i put a not of instagram of lauryn's boots. >> she's got them on. >> s

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working on. we've got sheinelle jones and jeff rossen joining us live from new york. hey, guys, good morning. >> coming up on saturday morning, the latest shake-up inside the white house, president trump name agnew chief of staff just six months after taking office. who was his new pick and will the change help calm things down in the white house? live for us you will. >> also ahead elon musk unveils his latest tesla car and we're there for the firsthand look. this one, by the way, is designed to be more for the every day person. we'll show you what that's about. >> talk about a special delivery. we'll hear from the doctor who jumped into action to deliver a baby even though she was just hours from giving birth herself. >> dedication. >> painful delivery for both sides. >> those stories and more, guys, when we get going saturday morning. >> that's an amazing doctor. >> can you imagine? >> that's commitment right there. we'll see you guys in about 15ments. all right. meantime back here at home if you're driving this morning you want to be really cautious and

we've got first responders telling us not to drive through those spots especially where the see standing water. >> absolutely. news 4's derrick ward watching it all live near pearson street checking out water levels in rock creek. derrick. >> normally docile rock creek awake today. the abutment, you see the line, the height of things this morning halfway up that bridge support. you can see it flowing pretty fast through here. if you look over at the center of the creek, can you see i guess you'd call these whitecaps. especially foam caused by the dam. there you see the wall. that gives you an indication of how high this water is. it probably would have been about up to my waist at the highest and left make of that on it. where the foam begins, that is a little dam right there

you get the landmarks what the creek is doing. that's why you find road closures along peach drive. high water along beach drive. things run adjacent to the creek. again, if we're expecting more rain, as we've been saying this morning, we can only expect this creek to get hire. live in northwest, news 4. back to you. >> derrick, thanks. speaking of all that rain, it's got us thinking about a devastating flood. remember this? this is in maryland a year ago. looking at ellicott city devastated historic district. two people lost their lives. more than 170 cars got washed away, destroyed. that's not to mention all the businesses severely damaged. well, now, those businesses flipping a sign to open. they are back up and running. this week $18 million was dedicated so as to prevent future flooding there. you just spent some time at the beach. >> i did. florida. >> down with my cuban people. al

we all love that. it's the time of year to do that. >> it is. but thousands of tourists they had this trips canceled after a man made power outage in the outer banks where you spent a lot of time. >> yes. >> 10,000 tourists forced to get out of the way. two islands after contractors drove a steal post through an underground electrical cable. somebody might lose their job. that caused a massive power outage. gas stations they had trouble keeping fuel and ice. north carolina's governor pence declaring a state of emergency over all that. transmission crews hope to have a repair assessment by this afternoon. we'll stay on top of that. >> that's a mess. >> a terminally ill woman from beltsville is finally back in maryland after getting sick and stuck in alaska for nearly three months. >> news 4's chris cordon reports, this is all thanks to strangers up in alaska who heard

>> they did it. they came through for me. for a while i wasn't sure if it would come about. >> i spoke with nancy greathouse and her husband paul april nursing rehab facility. they have a message for the people in alaska who donated more than $60,000 to their go fund me page to pay for the special medical charter flight home. >> i want to thank them for everything they did. it's a miracle that i made it here, and i'm so happy. i miss them but i'd rather be here. >> after all you've been through, do you have any plans to every travel again? >> my one son is getting married in vermont, so i would like to go up there. >> are you at all nervous about traveling? >> no. >> even after all you've been through? >> well, sometimes that's an

is not buying that travel insurance, which would have got us home a whole lot sooner. but then again, i would never have met the people. >> reporter: as a retired teacher i asked her if there was a lesson in all she's been there. she said, yes, always believe and never give up. chris gordon, news 4. >> wishing the family well there. >> some good people. >> yeah. >> back here closer to home far from alaska. we are dealing with quite a mess. >> pretty much we've got sunshine tomorrow and all through next week. it's going to be quiet. we can take a break next week. >> we're dup? >> we're done. >> what about flooding concerns. >> got to be dealing with that. unfortunately we're doing to be dealing with flooding for quite sometime. flash flood watch up for everybody at 2:00 p.m. we do have scattered flood warnings throughout the area. i'm going to show you that. as can you see from derrick's live shot out there, we have a

roll through as we continue through the remainder of the day today. we've got more rain as well. it's a gloomy start for your saturday morning here in your nation's capital. it's a weather alert this morning. we do have a few isolated showers out there. of course flooding is still a concern because it's not doing to take much rain to actually add to the problems we already have. but as i was just telling mollette and dave, we've got actually a very nice stretch of weather coming our way. current temperatures out there right now, 72 here in washington, 75 in annapolis, 60s and 70s across the board. this is where we're going to stay. a little chilly out there for this time of year. neon green, these are the flood warnings we have. not necessarily raining in those areas right now. we have those rivers and streams at that flood stage or just approaching the flood stage right now. we'll continue to see that. some of these waters will start to recede as we do through the morning. again, we've got more rain. here is the last tail end of this system that has to rotate through the area.

isolated showers in the shenandoah valley. this going to move through our area and bring a little bit more rain as we continue through the morning. again, those showers continue all the way up through frederick, just some light stuff. pockets of moderate rain as we go through the morning. see the rotation on this. by 1:00 we still have rain showers. as we do through the middle part of the afternoon, it starts to move out of our area. we still have cloud cover as we continue into tonight but then we'll start to see clearing late tonight and set us up for a beautiful sunday. sunday looks absolutely fantastic with low humidity. today not so much. today to add insult to injury, it's going to be breezy. winds northwest 10 to 20 miles an hour. so if you're maybe thinking about going to the nats game, i was going to be shocked if they played that game. finally they canceled it. they are making it up tomorrow. tomorrow is the best day to play. they will get that game in, a little on the soggy side by dry. temperatures tomorrow the mid-80s, plenty

low humidity and sunny skies continue for monday as well. by tuesday humidity starts creeping up, so do temperatures around 90. next chance of rain not until frid ay

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didn't know. forty years ago, has this on the calendar every year. started in new york when the city's mayor claimed it a holiday. the city lays claim as the birth place of the chicken wing where they are also known as buffalo wings. can you snag deals at spots like buffalo wild wings and hooters. >> you like the blue cheese or ranch dipping sauce. >> blue cheese. >> you're smart. i know you were smart. you almost lost that. >> see. >> right. not only are we celebrating the chicken wing today but turns out it's national lipstick day. did you know that? >> i had no idea. >> can you snag a free -- yes, free -- lipstick at a mac counter store. i love some mac. >> me, too. >> we're not talking tiny sachls we'rlk

the company is handing out full sized lipsticks. there's no catch. the only catch is you might have to wait in line. >> i'm going to give you mine. sorry, lauryn, she asked first. 6:56. that's the time on saturday. four things to know, one of the big ones, heavy rain caused severe flooding out there. several roads and other parts of our area had to close because of this. officials are urging drivers, take it slow this morning. all right. watch out for high water. of course if you want to keep up to date with it follow news 4's derrick ward on twitter. he's checking out the roads. >> nearly a dozen people evacuated from this apartment building southeast. fire officials say a basement wall collapsed on v street that building is for you unsafe and the red cross is there helping people with accommodations. >> trying to find a dry place to stay. a group is going to protest outside dominion energy's utility building in herndon today.

to put up voltage lines over the historic black neighborhood. many residents are descendants of freed slaves who bought the properties. >> expect to run into metro closure, bethesda and medical center closed on the red line. no service between reagan national airport and d.c. on the yellow line. for updates you can head on over to the nbc washington app. >> ricketts, how long do you think this is going to linger? >> we're doing to have a few showers through at least midday and start tapering off this afternoon. >> that's it for now. >> we're going to be back in 25 minutes. we'll update you on some local news. also get lauryn updating you on weather.

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