nbc4 begins now with storm team 4. >> right to the forecast on this friday night. a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for frederick county, maryland. and more storms behind that one could be passing over your house overnight. >> let's go to chief

storm center with the latest on these warnings. hi, doug. >> we're checking out this storm right here. the severe thunderstorm warning cancelled just now, just now cancelled for frederick county but here for carol county in maryland and another storm. that's in washington county and another storm developing. this storm right here came through parts of martinsburg and hagerstown and parts of washington county, trees down south of the hagerstown area but for the most part, not seeing lightning anymore. severe thunderstorm watch as soon as you came to me cancelled in frederick county. good news but here it is in carroll county and into pennsylvania. down towards the south, we haven't seen anything at all and i don't think we will for the most part. the best chance of more storms continues to be to the north and west. that's with this line back to the west. we expect this to kind of die out here and maybe transfer some of the energy over the next couple of hours into this region to the north and west.

changes everything for the weekend. i've got the weekend forecast for you, talk to you in a minute. >> see you soon, doug. in the meantime, new video from chopper 4 tonight over a barricade situation that's now been clear. this is in prince georges county. police surrounded this apartment building around 7:30. someone inside there shooting from the balcony. officer took three men into custody there but didn't know if there was anyone else inside the apartment, so they sent a perimeter around it. and around 10:00, they found the apartment was, in fact, empty. no word yet on any charges. dc police want you to see this video of two suspects involved in a deadly shooting last night. you can see them fire over and over at a gas station in the brooklyn neighborhood in northeast dc. those shots hit four people and killed jarvis bell. jackie bensen spoke to his parents tonight. live with more.

jackie? >> reporter: doreen, he was just a block and a half, a block and a half from home. the security camera video from a nearby business shows in clear detail the horror outside of the exxon station at 18th and monroe street's thursday evening. another camera picked up the sounds of countless gunshots. did the gunman not see the cameras that captured images of them cold-bloodedly through the doors of the gas station wounding four people? fatally, or did they not care their faces could be clearly seen? >> very angry. >> lisa bell's son, jarvis bell, did not survive his injuries. he was less than 2 blocks from home. >> he was really kind to a lot of the

helped with grotheir groceries. >> reporter: police say the vehicle is the dark colored sedan that could be seen here. now, there's a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this murder but jarvis bell's parents, they say that anybody who knows those guys should call and turn them in because getting them off the street is the right thing to do. live in northeast washington, jackie bensen, nbc4. >> jackie, thank you. breaking news tonight in the ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election. "the new york times" is reporting robert mueller for the first time is requesting documents directly from the white house. the time says

national security advisor, one of the president's attorneys said the white house is cooperating. police now are looking for a guy accused of taking up skirt. look at this picture. a woman told leaving the columbia heights area when she felt a hand going up her skirt. using surveillance video, metro police realized the suspect was holding the phone at the time. they say they have evidence he targeted several other women as well. >> outraged. and violated. scary that someone would be on the metro doing something like that. it's crazy. >> if you have any information on this case, metro transit police want to talk with you immediately. new tonight, man who was trusted to take care of children is accused of sexually abusing them. claudio vargas lazo arrested af

reported being inappropriately touched by a man. child protective services and police identified lazo as the suspect and inappropriately touched a 9-year-old girl. lazo ran in-home day care in fairfax. they want to hear from anyone who thinks he had inappropriate contact with their child. insisted he loved his stu students and never intended to hurt anyone. john sentenced to 48 years in prison. at clover elementary in silver spring for decades until his arrest last year. several years over a period of 15 years but dozens of supporters spoke in his defense in court today. >> the circuit court judge presided over this case thought the jury got it right and so do we do. >> we'll continue to fight until he's vindicated and vuft is served. >> the im

suffering and some actually contemplated suicide. an electrical malfunction forced several children out of the pool and into the hospital today in fairfax. that city's fire chief said the malfunction shut down a pump at the fehr fox swimming pool on roberts road. when the power came back on, the pump sent a huge amount of chlorine into the water causing the children to get sick. about five went to the hospital. all expected to be okay. the county health inspector decides when the pool can reopen. tonight, we hear from the two police officers who saved the 90-year-old man from inside his burning home. clarence wade and his wife geneva recovering tonight but telling our shahmari stone. >> reporter: surrounded by smoke and fire in this northeast dc home, alex and

heroically rescued. >> you see the smoke. >> everything happened so fast. >> reporter: fire broke out early thursday morning and geneva upstairs. she climbed out the back window and called police. suffering from smoke inhalation and neighbors say they watched as officers put their lives on the line. >> we started yelling inside of the house to see if anybody was inside and sure enough, we could hear someone yelling from the inside. >> that's when they ran in and pulled them out. officers had a couple of cuts and inhaled the smoke. they're okay. firefighters showed up a few minutes later and put out the flames. now clarence and his wife are recovering at a hospital. their niece is grateful. >> thank you so much for saving my uncle's life. >> very, very proud of these

>> reporter: dc police chief peter newsom. >> i appreciate channel 4 to give them the recognition they deserve. >> reporter: they do it with honor. in northwest dc, shamrai stone, nbc4. deadly drug overdoses in mad. the state health department released new numbers from january to march of this year, maryland had 550 overdose related deaths. that's just in three months. that's a 37% increase compared to the same time period last year. fentanyl is linked to 372 of those deaths. the powerful painkiller is 50 times more potent than heroin and when the two are mixed, often a deadly combination. to see how severe the epidemic is, look at stafford hospital in virginia. it's been forced to change procedures for handling

got sick. a stafford county deputy saw a couple passed out. the woman still had a needle in her arm. the deputy took her to get medical help and he ended up needing a dose of narcan, the overdose antidote because he suffered from exposure to the drugs. during that process, a nurse got sick too. >> for a number of hours, we had rooms we had to close down because we didn't know what the room contamination was. >> the deputies give the emergency room a heads up if the heroin or fentanyl victim on the way and the hospital staff wear protective gear. on nbc4, a trip to paradise and now she'll never go back. a dc teacher says she and her girlfriend were detained in aruba for more than 24 hours after a note that said bomb was found in the airplane bathroom last week. someone said the teacher was the last one to use the bathroom before found and the authorities questioned them and placed them in

lawyer but couldn't call families or the u.s. embassy. local media published pictures and call them criminal suspects. >> petrified. like, this is the most horrific thing that has ever happened in my life. >> it seemed as though there was definitely some discrimination involved. just to be honest. >> in the end, the women were released without any charges being filed against them. nbc4 has reached out to aruba authorities and waiting to hear back on this case. next at 11:00, they call him pharma bro. the former ceo convicted but far from silent tonight. 17 days and counting until the total solar eclipse. coming up, some of the people going to make some big money off this once in a generation event. and maybe the best known coffee and donut chain in the world. so why

former pharmaceutical executive who americans love to hate said he feels exonerated tonight even though the trial convicted him. martin is famous for raising the price of an aids drug from $13 per pill to $750 each and then basically bragging about it but his trial, in this case, nothing to do with that. prosecutor said he lewded his drug company to pay in two hedge funds. lawyer argues the investors got the money back and then some. >> this was a witch hunt of epic proportions and maybe they found one or two broom stick bus at the end of the day, we've been

charges of this case. >> immediately after leaving court, took to his youtube channel, he said he thinks there's a 50/50 chance he won't face any punishment. he said he does plan to appeal. baltimore residents are making an appeal of their own and calling a cease-fire this weekend. three-day truce to slow a spike of violence in this city. baltimore had 208 homicides this year and on pace to eclipse the 319 from last year. one of the organizers said the motto of the weekend is, nobody kill anybody. she also says no single dprgrou takes credit for the cease-fire but every resident to play their part. a scramble under way for the event of a lifetime to blanket skies coast to coast next month. a solar eclipse turning day into night. >> even just curious like a few of us here. this eclipse is a rare opportunity to catch one of nature's greatest

here's nbc's miguelag with the details. >> reporter: there will be madness in madris. christina carpenter is getting the farm ready for a festival. on august 21st, the solar eclip eclipse, paying a premium for $1500 the camp on her 80 acres. >> it's definitely a once in a lifetime opportunity. right in the fields where we grow the food. i'm really excited. >> reporter: this town of 6,000 bracing for 100,000 visitors. liquor sales are booming. legal pot sales could hit an all-time high. >> we've been planning for all these years to be ready for the big great american eclipse. >> reporter: john brewster planning for de

path of the eclipse. >> all of this work for two minutes, i'm like, yes, of course. >> reporter: as the moon passes in front of the sun, a ribbon of darkness, 70 miles wide, known as the path of totality will move from oregon to south carolina taking just under 2 hours. each town going dark for roughly 2 minutes. in national park, rescue teams prepare for the largest crowds ever. and across the country, kids big and small are launching science experiments. for those who don't fall in the path of complete darkness, tens of millions still experience a partial eclipse. you won't need a fancy telescope. just a pair of protective glasses like these, if you can find them. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. if you're planning to see it yourself, the path of totality, you're going to share the road with this guy because doug is going to south carolina to

it. if you want to know how to catch a glimpse here, go to the nbc washington app and find fascinating stories with the eclipse chasers, believe it or not, eclipse chasing is a hobby. >> it's a thing. >> i will call you an eclipse chaser now, doug. >> i can't wait. so excited. >> going live? >> we'll be on facebook live. it will be about 2:30 in south carolina. >> nobody else will want to do facebook live that day. >> no, they want to look up there. >> you're the only one doing it. >> aisle be like this, i don't know what's happening. but i am so excited. even here, you know, a lot of people think we're going to miss it, we get about 85% totality, enough to get outside and see what's going on here. you do need the special glasses. >> one hand and check doug's. >> exactly right. exactly right. facebook.com/doug kammerer. let's look right now. storms i p

most of us dry tonight and really, the severe weather is now done. i think it will stay done for the rest of the night. we told you earlier today, i do not expect storms dc southward at all. to the north, that's exactly where they are. still, unstorm right in here at frederick county but look at the storm that came by. wy winchester, martinsburg. and that now producing severe weather in parts of pennsylvania but we see a few showers and there are a few more developing here and i wouldn't be surprised to see some come through leesburg and as far as south as gaithersburg that transfers energy off towards the east. not a lot overnight tonight but don't be surprised if you're woken up by way of lightning and thunder around 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. 79 degrees right now. a nice night. winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour and most areas in the 70s. 77 gaithersburg and 75

warmer at this time than the past couple of nights. frontal boundary pushing in warmer air, but behind it, oh, boy. do things get really, really nice. you'll note a difference by tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, just gorgeous. low humidity, sunny, nice and breezy across the region and tomorrow is going to be a spectacular day and if you head to the pool, great day for the pool and water activities outside. just maybe a water balloon fight. 80 degrees at noon and 82 degrees at 2:00 and 84 degrees by 4:00 and looking good. it could be breezy, early at the pool and may be on the chilly side but not bad. let me get out of the way to see the whole weekend forecast. 84 on friday and 85 on sunday. great for a run. dinner outdoors is great and enjoy the cooler weather and it looks like that cooler weather wants to stick around. look at what we've got here. rain on monday and a little bit of a wash of a day. not a ton of rain but could see heavier showers. 81 degrees but cooler weather as we make our way towards tend of the week. watch out for

next week looking really, really nice. >> got to love the weekend we're looking forward to. thank you, doug. >> coming up -- john wall will have 170 million more reasons to dance around

week before football eclipses everything just to keep that going. everything around here. redskins got a preseason game coming up in a week. >> chris miles in the csn studios. john wall set the bar pretty high now. >>

right now. in dc for the rest of the life, that he wants to be regarded as the best wizards player of all time. those are some lofty goals. wall has seven years under his belt now in the franchise in the history already. he'll be in dc through 2023 and sounds like a man on a mission. >> a lot of unfinished business. keep striving to get that and not going to stop until i get here. that's why i committed to come back to the city. >> not a lot of players in this league can be a three time all-star prior to last season and take it to another level. not just one of the best point guards but one of the best players in the league. >> i want to build a model franchise where i think we're the only team in the nba that's been able to draft, develop, and retain the three first round picks and give them

>> that's where the matinee against the cubs. early start didn't bother daniel murphy. carried the offense with two homers. three nets got hit. howie kendrick and brice harper, a trio for 7 for 10. solid start. newly acquired bullpen did their job. brandonine kinsler and sean clo it out at ninth. 142 nats. praised the new bullpen. certainly seems happy with his new arms. >> strike, quality strikes. and started long before that. excellent game. except the one pitch. to javy, and then it was time, you know, to get him out of this and turn it over to our newly revamped booth and you feel very comfortable puttth

>> san antonio stars. two former gets the job done. shatrori finds christie toliver. 6 for 19 and trail 4 at the half. fourth quarter, under 10 seconds. emma for the win. no beno. 76. headed to the arena league and eliminated in the regular season finale and back at it on saturday and fan appreciation day and practice starts at 3:00. not too late to make the trip down richmond. >> go down and take some selfies.

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do you go to dunkin donuts for the donuts? they want to be known for their coffee first. newest locations called dunkin. they're going to leave donuts off of the name and off the sign. a few others trying. referring to dunkin in its advertising and could be all the stores as early as next year. >> call it whatever you want. we'll still call it dunkin donuts and we already know they have good coffee,

>> there you go. that's it for us know. "tonight

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