he says the national guard is on stand by just in case. the mega millions jackpot is going to someone in the midwest, but the $356 million powerball jackpot is still up for grabs tonight. you can buy tickets up until 10:00 p.m. "news 4 today" starts now. a lot of money. >> yes. >> ready to be changed hands because of powerball and the mega millions. good saturday morning to you, hope you're having a good one. i'm adam tuss in for david. >> and i'm angie goff. we want to take this time to check in with news 4's lauren ricketts. she ventured outside. >> she did. the humidity is not a fan to people with big hair, correct? >> no, and i was just thinking about this, angie, because we were all talking about it while the "today" show was going on and whether i was going to come outside and i kept saying it is so humid out there, angiespray. >> it's like glue. >> i can already see it gets frizz balled up here. it's so sticky out here right

unfortunately that's the way it's going to be today. as we head into really tomorrow that humidity drops. we will be dealing with that humidity and just mugginess out there today. prepare yourself for it when you head outside. showers down to the south and east right now, really through southern maryland, fredericksburg, quantico marine base coming through the northern neck, we still have that flood warning in manassas, derrick ward is out there, he's letting us know what going on, that is until 9:30. lots of roads closed through the area, we will continue to watch that. we have more storms coming through later on. we will tell you went to expect them coming up. with north korea threatening guam japan says it's prepared to act. japan began deploying patriots missiles to intercept any attack or debris in the air. if north korea decides to fire with guam those missiles would of to travel over japan first. president trump issuing warnings against kim jong-un this week.

could be next, the country is going through a humanitarian crisis. president trump told reporters all options including responding with military action are on the table now. venezuela's defense minister called that talk an act of craziness. last month you might really nicolas maduro seized more power. the treasury department imposed sanctions on maduro after that election. a lot of the president's statements have come during his working vacation in new jersey. the white house is being remember separated, we are getting our first look inside while the president is not there. the to-do list includes new carpet, paint and upgrades to the electrical system. cranes are also being used to replace the heating and tools systems in the west bing. excuse me. got me choked up because it's so beautiful. most furnishings are being temporarily stored in portable units outside of the executive mansion. >>. time 1902. a family is mourning the death of their son and begging for a

colton west's family believes that he died of an overdose and his friends dump his body. >> making the pain even worse, a photo of their son's body was posted online. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey shares a father's emotional plea. >> reporter: flowers from the memorial service still fresh. for colton west's father the sudden death of his 25-year-old firstborn has changed everything. >> it's like a new world. i mean, there's before colton and after colton. >> reporter: colton's family thinks he died of a drug overdose. what they know for certain, no one with him called for help. his body was dumped in this apartment flex parking lot and that's where someone took a photo and posted it on an online forum for all to see. >> and it was extremely hurtful to me and my family. it was just -- i can't even

things. >> reporter: colton's younger brother, saddened and angry. >> this makes me mad because just people think like they have the right to go out and do that and it's just wrong. it's just morally wrong. >> rep to add to the pain callous comments posted about the photo. colton's family immediately contacted the forum administrator begging that the photo be taken down. >> i feel like, you know, there should be some type of action taken. >> but the site administrator told me by phone he will not remove the photo. he says high interest among users outweighs the family's need for privacy. >> as a general rule no legal content is ever removed from the forums. so this content is removed it would certainly be an aberration. >> for colton's family, though, there is more heart break. the fact that someone just dumped his body. >> they're so concerned with her own selfish, you know, covering their own back

speak, that they move him and try to -- you know, just discarded him like a piece of trash. >> that story from northern virginia bureau chief julie carey this morning. $10,000 worth of marijuana was discovered inside of a car at a bethesda high school. now, one man is facing a list of charges. our news partner wtop reports that nicholas morris was arrested after police say they found him trying to sell that marijuana out of his car. montgomery county police say morris was in the parking lot at walt wittman high school earlier this month. they say nearly 50 packages of marijuana and hundreds of dollars in cash were all found in the vehicle. coming up, metro is facing a major funding problem. we will tell you about the new steps that leaders from d.c., maryland and virginia plan to take to solve a major budget shortfall. and say good morning to this. hey, guys. hi. welcome. major infestation and really this is nothing to joke about. the disturbing problem that's plaguing a local animal

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welcome back. metro needs some money and there has been an ongoing battle over just how the transit system should be funded. the "washington post" says that the d.c. mayor and the governors of virginia and maryland are going to meet later this month to talk about all of that. metro says it needs to raise at least $500 million in extra revenue. d.c. mayor muriel mouser has called for a region wide sales tax for metro, but governors larry hogan and terry mcauliffe have not been on board with that. >> we want to know what you think about a couple new concepts for a park in d.c. the national park city put out two options that would incorporate the anacostia river walk trail. one would be above the river on an elevated platform, the other has the trail running through the park. the park service says neighbors in that area suggested some of those ideas. >> that's pretty cool if you would be a t

water. taking a live look outside right now, muggy start as you look at the national mall. you will feel the heat and humidity out there. lauren is updating our forecast with how soon we will get a break from it all. >> and staying positive. love this story. and changing minds. unique lesson being taught in schools that's trying to solve a problem that's been around for generations. it's 9:09.

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your saturday breakfast. d.c. is in the middle of a rat battle. the problem has got.so bad at a local animal shelter that workers reached out to our news 4 i team. >> rodent complaints, in fact, they are way up across the city with almost 3,000 already this year. as investigative reporter jodie fleischer shows us, some buildings are a bigger attraction than others. >> reporter: when you walk into d.c.'s humane rescue alliance on new york avenue, these are the four-legged creatures you usually see. dogs and cats up for adoption by the nonprofit animal shelt, but now shelter workers are facing a different type of critter, rats, telling the i team one even bit a coworker earlier this ummer is. so concerned for safety they started recording these videos. rats scurrying where some of the larger dogs are kept, crawling along the pipes in the ceiling in the morning. even along the floor and

the dog cages in the evening. >> people see rats, the first question everyone should ask is what are these rats eating? >> reporter: rodentologist bobby coringen is one of the nation's leading experts, helps cities combat rats, including d.c., and says three things attract them, food, water and shelter, making locations like this one a huge target. >> in animal shelters it's a very unique environment, lots of dog food, cat food, animals, crowded situations and so, you know, rats will smell, mice will smell, cockroaches will smell all that food. >> we showed him the videos employees sent us. >> these are large i call those breeding adults. >> he said these are all likely part of one rat family that can have up to 15 am ebbs. >> once an animal shelter goes up it's difficult to keep the vermin out. it has to be a constant vigilance. >> that's something david smith knows well shoo they're ten shus and so are we.

have been a problem inside this building for years and this isn't even the worse they've seen. >> we had to remove all the ceilings so that the rats couldn't get move the ceilings. >> now they have pest control coming twice a week to set traps. >> they collect three to five a week is this they're covering food wins and keeping the better as clean as possible. >> we including a hole they find a new one or make a new one. it's a challenge. >> when the i team visited the shelter over several days we didn't spot any rats but smith knows it will be an ongoing battle until they open their new location on the southeast waterfront. >> the building is kept safe, safe for the public, safe for the employees. we're vigilant about keeping it as spotless and he can. >> he says that employee who was bitten didn't even require an official report. >> he was nicked but it was not major, didn't require medical attention. >> the rod ent olg gist says the rats don't carry rabies but

be destructive and hard to fight. >> it is possible to rid an animal shelter of all their rodents but it has to be done correctly. >> smith says they haven't had these kinds of problems with the their newer building. other shelters haven't had these kinds of problems, either. and a reminder the i team is also working for you to keep your kids safe in the new school year. you are going to want to tune in tomorrow morning at 11:30 right after "meet the press" for a news i team special called slipping through the cracks, scott mcfar lane will walk viewers through teacher misconduct cases and how to talk to your kids about abuse. a growing number of schools in fairfax county are changing minds with this new program that bolsters character traits as well as relationships. >> it's a lesson most schools haven't had in the classroom numb until now. julie carey explains how it

works. >> i'm already -- i'm already thinking about how i can incorporate this in my classroom. >> reporter: it's called the positivity project. it was launched in a handful of fairfax county schools last year, the results were so good another 15 may sign on for this year. it works by teaching 24 character traits throughout the school year, working them in in a variety of ways, the idea to help students build stronger relationships with peers and adults. >> why is this needed? most of us didn't get lessons on character and building relationships, but we didn't have these, either, and now all the texting and social media really limits the social interaction. >> we know from the research that relationships are the number one redistricting of life satisfacti satisfaction. if we can slowly move the needle for students on building better relationships that's going to make them happier and eventually more successful later in their life. >> dozens of teachers were trained at jeb

about what the program promises. >> i don't think there's anything that's more important than building your students and focusing on the whole child and growing into stronger citizens and creating a positive future. focusing on the characteristics that can make you stronger as an individual and help other people around you is the most important thing we can do as educators. >> one measure of the program's success, a drop in discipline problems in the schools that participated. >> we did questions to the students, teachers, people in the building, how confident are you in yourself, do you know yourself better as a result of the positivity project, do you know your classmates better? how do you think your friendships and relationships with other people in the building are? while it is a bit tricky to measure we think it's really important to measure it. >> the group partners with schools across the country at no charge. the positivity project hopes to be in thousands of schools and reach millions of kids in the next five years.

>> great story there by julie. let's turn our attention to the weather at 9:17. this is just a gray, nasty, humid, sticky, ugly mess. >> yeah, it is. unfortunately we got all that rain yesterday, we have the humidity out there today, it's very muggy out there. as we continue through the afternoon we will see more storms. >> events going on today outside. >> we already have flood warnings up right now through manassas, manassas park and then also through central prince william county. that's where you're seeing right now, thanks to derrick ward's live shot. we will talk to him in a few minutes. that's from some of the aftermath. john marshall highway that area seemed to have the most damage. i talked to derek after my last hit just about 30 minutes ago. he was saying they've cleaned up a lot of the tree damage. it's off to the side now or maybe that's where the storms went. i also talked to the national weather service just about an hour ago. they are such great people at the national weather service here in sterling, our local department is awesome

said that they may go out there to fauquier county to see if, in fact, they had a tornado possibly touchdown. so they're going to see the damage reports. they're really going to monitor that and see if there is even a reason for them to go out there, just to see if there happened to be a tornado out there. we will continue to update on that. i will call the national weather service about 9:30, 10:00 to see if they made that decision on whether they're headed out there. it is a gloomy morning out there, unfortunately, right now, we are in the mid 70s, feels a little warmer than that with that humidity. with he continue to warm up. i do believe we will get peeks of sunshine as we go through the middle portion of the day. visibility down quite a bit, especially in the shenandoah valley, down to a half a mile in the shenandoah valley, less than a mile at martinsburg. again, the humidity -- i've been talking about that all morning -- the visibility will be getting better as we go through the morning. as we get some sunshine that fog will burn off. seeing rain showers out the

of d.c., coming through southern maryland, i-95 corridor from the mixing bowl down to fredericksburg, that continues to push off towards the eastern shore, they do have that flash flood warning in salisbury. again, we're watching this rain showers move out of here, they will last a couple hours, light stuff, but we will continue to watch that as it moves out of here. there is that flood watch here in the circle that's manassas, the city of manassas, so that flood warning extends all the way out through central prince william county. broad run and now at floods stage. so that may go down at 9:30, we're just there. we will see if that extend that. the national weather service may need to extend that just because of the flooding of broad run. be careful when you go around there, there's a lot of closed roadways. temperatures as we head into tonight you're going to fall into the lower 70s. there's going to be storms around later tonight, mainly because of frontal systems coming through, it's not going to clear until late tonight. showers and thunderstorms anytime after 3:00, 4:00 and then continuing through the late evening. mid 80s for daytime highs to

through the middle portion of the day, sunshine is not our friend because it's only going to increase the instability, possibly give us stronger storms. here is 9:00, we start to see us clear out a little bit, get some sunshine and then by 12:30 we're dry. that's when you want to head to the pool. then we start to see this line of storms move through the area. that is with that frontal system, some to be strong. we will keep them in through the late evening then we start clearing as we head into the overnight. the form impacts, definitely heavy rainfall, high winds, i do not think it will be as widespread or strong as yesterday. mid 80s for tomorrow and lower humidity, humidity starts to roll back in monday, storms south and east, isolated chances around here, low 80s on monday with the humidity returning and we stay dry as we head through the middle portion of next week. >> thank you, lauren. the time right now, we are looking at 9:21. and google now facing a

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google is having a tough week. there is a call for the company's ceo to step down. >> nbc's jo ling kent explains why it all has to do with that internal memo written by a now fired engineer. >> reporter: pressure on google

mounting as ceo sundar pitch chie is called for resign after canceling a companywide meeting to address gender discrimination, the town hall was scheduled in response to the internal memo written by engineer james d'amore, now fired. he wrote that women are underrepresented in tech due to, quote, biological differences, and efforts to achieve more diversity are bad for business. >> one thing that i want to make clear is there i'm not just attacking diversity, i'm not attacking left ideology necessarily, i'm just attacking the fact that we can't honestly discuss any of these issues and that that is actually hurting the problem. the town hall was canceled when some conservative groups online threatened to expose google workers who planned to ask questions. 80% of the company's tech workers are male, an imbalance google has pledged to change. in his first public remarks since the controversy the ceo spoke to aspiring young

engineers. >> i want you to know that there is a place for you in this industry. there is a place for you at google. don't let anyone tell you otherwise. >> reporter: google fired d'amore for violating its code of conduct and advancing harmful gender stereotypes. he has filed a federal complaint and told nbc news he plans to take legal action against google. d'amore's supporters argue he is a victim of political correctness, diversity advocates disagree. >> if you show up to work and say something that harms your coworkers employers have an obligation to take action. >> and that was jo ling kent reporting. this week more than 80 women reached out to a california law firm that wants to file a class action lawsuit against google, it is claiming alleged compensation discrimination. taking a live look outside, not a great start to saturday morning. pretty muggy out there, not a great hair day. lauren is tracking an end to this stormy weather and how soon ow

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damage from severe storms and what you can expect for the rest of the weekend. chaos in the streets, white nationalists clash with protesters in charlottesville and this might only be the start. the danger today as the national guard is now ready to is it ep in. escalating tensions, what president trump is now telling the world about north korea and the steps being taken to avoid an attack. good saturday morning to you, thank you for joining us, i'm adam tuss in for david. >> and i'm angie goff. we will get to the damage and the flooding in just a moment, but we want to find out about the forecast and where things go from here. >> let's check in with lauren ricketts. just not a very pretty start to saturday. >> oh, no, it's not. it's bloomy, muggy, hazy, foggy. it's just not a pretty morning. as we continue to see rain showers. latest update just came out about three minutes ago, multiple roads closed around the manassas ar

extended until 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. the creek at broad run and bristol is at flood stage. that is going to continue to fall, but, again, it goes until 3:30 this afternoon. we continue to see rain showers scooting south and east of the district right now all through southern maryland, more rain expected later on this afternoon. the timing of some of those storms coming out in just a few minutes. >> lauren, thank you very much. all morning we've been showing you the damage and the flooding left behind by yesterday's storm. you can see some of it right here at least one stranded driver had to be rescued last night in the manassas. >> and this morning you are urged to be very careful if you are driving through some spots that still have that standing water. news 4's derrick ward joins us live with a look at the roadways in hay market and shows us damage that's been done. hi, derek. >> reporter: yeah, well, we are on john marshall highway in hay market just as you sort of get into town. you can take a

of damage that happened around here. folks we've talked to say it happened sort of around 8:00, it was still light outside but they couldn't see a lot. take a look on the otherside of john marshall, you get a sense of how strong the winds were and the path true through this area. tops of trees sheard off and high tension electrical lines seem to be a bit askew. take a look, this is the issue going forward, broad run, we are right at the crossing of broad run and you can see as lauren has been telling you it's running at flood stage and hopefully it will go down a bit, but we talked to some folks about the other stuff that they've been seeing -- you see some flooding there in manassas, someone having to be rescued from a car. we talked to a guy who was coming through here when all this happened. he says it was pretty scary at the height of the storm. >> a tree fell across and then i had to turn around and went back and sat at sheets. i could see

ten feet in front of me, it was all sideways. up here at sheets, 20 minutes i sat in sheets. >> reporter: so that's about how long it took for it to get through here. he also said he saw some quarter-sized hail, all of those things that were predicted. now, again, expecting to heat up a bit out here so that could fire up more activity in the atmosphere later. right now a bit of a lull in the action. they have had a chance to open up this road and clear these trees to do some repairs on the guardrail so it's not completely over yet. we are live in hay market, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> thanks, derek. in prince william county the storm so strong that a tree did this, came crashing down on the top of that rv while it was driving down the road. now, this was on john marshall highway not far from the fauquier county line. a husband and wife they were on their wife to a vacation when all of a sudden the tree limbs snapped and slammed on top of the roof trapping the couple

inside. >> the wife is scared to death. me, there wasn't nothing i could do about it. the good lord says it's my day, it's my day. >> rescue crews from prince william county able to use tools, things like that chain saw to cut the tree limbs off and eventually free the rv. a good time right now also to remind you that if you are not getting our push alerts from the news 4 weather team, make sure to download the nbc washington app, it's free, it's easy and this is going to give you the latest weather updates, alerts and warnings and forecasts anytime you need it. well, police are out to prevent this kind of violence in charlottesville today. take a look at this video from yesterday. white nationalists marched with torches and fought with counterprotesters on the uva campus last night. charlottesville's mayor called it, quote, a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism and

police had to break it up last night, but it could be a preview of a rally that's going on today which is called unite the right, it's at a park that used to be named for a confederate general robert e. lee, the park is now calls emancipation park. the white nationalists say their history and culture is being wiped away. the national guard is on stand by just in case anything gets too violent. many have spent time on jefferson davis highway in alexandria. that's named for the president of the confederacy, but not for much longer. the city is now taking suggestions for a grand new name for route 1. you can weigh in through an online survey, we put a link to it on the nbc washington app and there are also two advisory meetings, one this coming thursday and one next month. president trump says kim jong-un will truly regret any new threat. that is the latest war of words between north korea and the u.s. last night the president talked with the governor of guam. >> and i just wanted to pay my

thousand percent. you are safe. we are with you a thousand percent. >> north korea said it has a detailed plan to fire four missiles at guam. if kim jong-un approves. a reminder to watch nbc 4 tomorrow morning for a special edition of "meet the press." moderator chuck todd will talk with white house national security adviser h.r. mcmaster as well as admiral mike mullin, the former chairman of joint chiefs of staff, that's going to happen at 10:30 tomorrow morning. let's turn our attention to local politics, we are watching the race for governor in maryland. the newest person to declare her candidacy is facing questions about her eligibility to run. krishanti vignarajah is a former top aide for first lady michelle obama. she's registered to vote in maryland but she voted in the district multiple times. news 4's tom sherwood asked her repeatedly about that. >> why did you vote in d.c.? i'm sorry,

did you vote in the district of columbia? you are not answering the question why did you register to vote in the district of columbia. >> in terms of the requirements to run in maryland i have been a registered voter for far longer than the five years that is required. >> tom pressing her a bit there. she said she meets the requirements in maryland but didn't answer why she voted in the district. now, there are five other democrats in the race, former naacp leader ben jealous, state senator rich med lane know. rush earn baker, baltimore attorney james shea and entrepreneur alec ross. 9:37. it's a very good morning for somebody in illinois. >> yeah. >> someone hit the mega millions jackpot but it wasn't here. >> completely covered in money this morning and all we know is that the ticket was bought in the chicago suburbs and whoever has it gets 393 million bucks, lump sum in about the 200 million range. you still have a c

lucky tonight. the powerball jackpot that's at 356 million bucks, the drawing comes up tonight. we have to remind you the odds of winning are next to impossible but you have until 10:00 to buy tickets tonight. >> good luck. coming up, a i think maar healthcare change with thousands needing a new plan. why a major insurer is dropping coverage in our area, forcing 200,000 people now to find a new option. new action in the taylor swift trial. the accusations a judge has now tossed out and what's next for the duing lawsuits. el

if you have a healthcare plan through the affordable care act in virginia you might soon lose your coverage. anthem blue cross blue shield says that it's going to stop offering individual health insurance plans under the aca. now, this could impact about 200,000 people. anthem is the third insurance company to pull its coverage in the commonwealth. it comes as president trump has threatened to cut funding to

insurance companies that subsidize plans for low income people. more legal action is under way in the case against a virginia school and its transgender bathroom ban. the american civil liberties union filed paperwork asking a court to permanently halt the school policy in gloucester county. the aclu has been representing gavin grimm, you will remember that he is the transgender high school student who fought to use the boy's bathroom. the school did not allow him and other transgender students to use restrooms that matched their gender identity. grimm graduated in june, but the aclu says it wants to continue the case. a judge says taylor swift's groping accusations against a denver deejay did not get him fired. yesterday that judge threw out david mueller's lawsuit against the pop singer. mueller claims swift intentionally got him to lose his job but the judge says he did not prove his case, however, identical allegations against swift's mom and her radio liaison will go to a jury on monday. swift has couer

saying it was out of principle, that she wants to stand up for other women. let's take a look outside, see if things are improving. not much. hazy, muggy, nasty. we got drenched with rain, lightning last night and thunder. what's next for the rest of the weekend? lauren is tracking the timing on showers and how soon we will finally dry out. she was ten days away from starting college, now she is in the hospital after a random shooting. a teenager's difficult recovery and who police are trying track dotown

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well, it is the weekend, we are in august, a lot of kids heading back to school on monday, believe it or not, if you are not in school already. if you are headed out the county fairs, i would say go tomorrow, looks like a better day tomorrow are lower humidity. we have the alexandria sidewalk sale today, late afternoon storms could impact that. nats game got postponed yesterday, but we do have a chance for another delay for this afternoon. we will talk about the nats game in detail, time it out, not only the nats game but also time out these storms in case you are doing something around 7:00 around the region. let you know what to expect at that time coming up in three minutes. if you live in montgomery county don't be alarmed if you turn on the tap and the water comes out brown. wssc says the water is safe to drink. the agency says it's modifying

potomac water filtration plant. it's working to get rid of extra sediment in the water. that means you might notice a little different color in all of it. it could last for several weeks, but once again, wssc says it is perfectly fine to drink that water. now to a tough story, a d.c. teenager should be planning her trip to college, instead she is in the hospital fighting for her life. someone shot her thursday afternoon. >> a heartbreaking story. she drove her car into the path of a bullet intended for someone else and this morning police have one man in custody, but as news 4's shomari stone reports they are not done yet. >> and this is one of the most tragic things that i think that i have seen. >> reporter: d.c. police chief peter newsham talks about the senseless tragedy. >> we have a 17-year-old who is in the hospital struggling for her life. >> reporter: she was just ten days away from starting her college career, the daughter of a d.c. police sergeant is in critical condition. >> i have spoken to the family, as you can imagine,he

devastated. >> reporter: police say she was an innocent bystander shot in the head while driving through the intersection of saratoga and montana in northeast thursday afternoon. friday night just two miles away in a separate shooting a woman tells me she heard several shots fired on the 1900 block of bennett place northeast. law enforcement sources tell me a man was shot in the leg. richard hogart is a landlord in the neighborhood. he's tired of gun violence. >> it's not worth it. to designate someone's physical ability. >> reporter: d.c. police are still searching for the shooter on bennett place. back on saratoga avenue they made one arrest but still need help finding two other suspects. in northeast d.c., shomari stone, news 4. meantime, prayers continue for a local police chief who remains in intensive care. seat pleasant chief devan martin wasti

motorcycle crash thursday night. he was patrolling martin luther king jr. highway when he collided with another vehicle. that driver stayed on the scene and others rushed in to help. police are still trying to figure out how the whole crash happened. a quick thinking contractor is being credited for saving people from a burning building in alexandria. look at this cellphone video we have. you can see the flames there just shooting out of the third story window and this was at a condo building on valley drive. edwin parotta says he was working outside when he heard the screams. >> you couldn't even see inside because there was a lot of smoke everywhere. i don't want to let her behind me, you know, behind. i -- >> well, the family was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, but they are expected to be okay. >> wow. time right now is 9:48. 75 degrees out there, but it just feels worse. it's like getting hit with a wet towel. >> i felt muggy inside the

inside. >> i brought it in with me when i came in. >> hair is looking pretty good. >> if you need extra help. >> i might need that, a little right through here. i always have fly a ways anyhow. >> i just got those in that your pancakes. angie has pancakes. >> great. add a little flavor. >> i have hair spray all over them. all right. as we go through the day we're going to keep that mugginess around. we do have a chance for more showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. i know some of you are getting wet out there right now with a few showers to the south and east of us. it is so muggy out there and it's gray and gloomy. we've got -- >> gross. >> it's gross. there it is. i struggle to be subjective because a lot of people are like i kind of like this weather. i don't. i'd rather have sunshine and low 70s. i guess that's kind of southern california type weather but then my job wouldn't be that interesting. more storms out there today, very y.

bad, that looks like the pick of the weekend as that humidity continues to drop. 75 in the strict, upper 60s in the shenandoah valley that's where we're holding on to some of that fog. they're improving a little bit but again you are getting dense fog out there in some spots. that flood warning now continues and it has been extended until 3:30 because broad run creek at bristol is at flood stage, it has crested and is starting to recede a little bit. there are road closures around manassas, manassas park and prince william county. also be careful in if you're traveling in southern maryland, rain showers moving through the area, pretty persistent. light stuff but they're moving pretty rapidly off to the eastern shore. we will continue to deal with those in southern maryland for another hour. >> mid 80s today. we do have that chance of afternoon storms. tonight we have another nats game against the giants,

this beginning at 7:05. scattered storms will be around at 7:00 right around the district. we will be drying as you leave, but it's going to be muggy with temperatures in the 70s. we will see what they do about that game tonight and tomorrow we will be here with you on nbc 4 this afternoon -- i guess 6:00 tonight and also on wtop. so here is 9:30. there's some of that rain off to the southern maryland area. then we start to dry out, maybe a little sunshine and then look at these storms that roll by anytime after 3:00 or 4:00 this afternoon and continuing. this is 7:00 so, again, that's first pitch. we will continue to see that rain scoot off to the east after about 10:00 we will be drying out, we will be clearing and that humidity will drop through the day tomorrow. this is all due to a frontal system. high winds, heavy rains. i do not think the severe threat will be as widespread as it was yesterday. we just don't want a lot of sunshine today because that only increases our instability. tomorrow we will get that sunshine but we do not have any threat of rain tomorrow. we will be dry tomorrow and lower

but then that humidity moves right back in on monday. monday we only have an isolated chance of storms, better chance south and east of d.c., low 80s on monday and then we dry out, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, next chance of rain after that on friday. >> thank you very much. from hollywood to right here in the district, the box office stars shooting a new movie in town this weekend, we will tell you where they will be closing at ikea, we believe your perfect student deserves the perfect room for the perfect price. and... who's there? hey. a boy? oh, on the bed? you never told your dad and i about any... wait, what's going on now? move the flag.

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welcome back. check it out, some big hollywood stars might be stopping traffic in the district this weekend. >> and we know a lot of you are out there hoping to maybe catch a glimpse because it is the most shared story on our nbc washington facebook page. a film starring meryl streep and tom hanks is set to shoot scenes for a movie today. there are no parking signs posted up on capitol hill right now. that means there will be road closures along parts of the east capitol streets northeast between 2nd and 4th streets. neighbors tell us they are on the lookout for celebrities. >> i imagine there's going to be a lot of security and everything so i don't really know if i can actually catch a glimpse, but it would be cool if i do. >> one more hollywood heavy hitter may be on hand, this guy, you know him, director steven spielberg, he is working with thanks and streep on the film which is about the "washington post's" hole in handling of the pentagon papers back in 1971. >> sounds like a good movie. now i want to see it. time is

saturday morning. here are the four things you need to know. you will want to watch out for downed trees or flooded roads this morning, last night's strong storm caused quite a mess in some places. this down tree could be seen in hay market along john marshall highway. follow weather updates in our nbc washington app. take a look at the live picture from charlottesville, virginia, right now. the unite the right rally is starting soon. white nationalists organized the rally after a park honoring general robert e. lee was renamed. the governor of guam says he feels safe. president trump called him to say that the military is ready to respond. most recently the president cold kim jong-un that he will truly regret any new threat. are you feeling lucky? the powerball drawing is happening tonight and jackpot 365 million buckaroos. >> and the mega millions went to someone in illinois. >> they bought it at a barbecue joint. >> that was

something million dollars. are we going to get rid of the nastiness today. >> whom. the humidity drops tomorrow. a few rain showers south and east right now, scattered showers and thunderstorms some which could be strong anytime after 3:00 until late this evening, less humidity tomorrow, isolated chaps of storms with humidity returning on monday. >> today is a bad day. >> are you just saying that because you're looking at my hair right now? >> no. >> is it really frizzy. >> >> you're lauren with the good hair. come on. real quick about the eclipse, are you going down to see this team with the les of the team? >> e oh, no, somebody has to be here. >> fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. >> and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest internet ever.

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