another harvey briefing down in texas. president trump is expected to sit in on that briefing it. it will be by state officials and it comes as a historic rescue effort continues in houston. that storm gets ready to make land fall, yet again, this time it has louisiana in its sights 12 years after hurricane katrina. thank you for joining us. >> we're in for pat and leon. >> the rain is falling and water rising right now in southeast texas and that means more people in need of help. citizens are banning together to help the professionals rescue thousands from their homes. >> we have been working for you since the storm started. we have reports from texas and here in ocean city where they're dealing with a heavy rain from a different system. >> our coverage is going to begin at the live desk and the president's visit to, texas. >> president trump getting ready to tour the emergency operation

three miles north of houston. the president will be briefed what is still very much a rescue effort across the southeastern part of the state. earlier today the president was briefed by the governor and fema in corpus christi. he promised to deal with this crisis better than ever before. right now the official death toll stands at four. one of those deaths, a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez. perez went into the flood waters despite from his wife and never came home. his patrol car was found under a highway. just a short time ago, the heart wrenching decision he had to make once the patrol car was found. >> so, find him and -- once our team got there it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. so we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until

morning because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk for what we knew in our heart was going to be recovery mission. >> our coverage continues now with jay gray with a look at the heroic rescue efforts underway. jay, good afternoon. >> it's been five straight days of driving rain and rescue in southeast texas. >> it's just a massive operation, at this point. >> and -- >> it's terrifying to see these waters rising and not knowing what to do and there's not a way to really get out. >> rick sal -- rick's brother survived. >> you could hear the kids screaming and crying. the van just sunk underneath. and today houston's police chief, emotional as he

there are thousands still stranded here. >> everyone in the state of texas is focused, first, on saving every life that we can. rescue teams pouring into the area from across the country. >> we're going to be here until the last person leaves. >> joined by a volunteer navy using whatever they can to carry survivors to higher ground. >> it's unbelievable, the number of nice people that are showing up. >> also, on the ground in texas today, president trump traveling to corpus christi as consoler in chief. [ applause ] >> and promising federal help through the long and difficult recovery. >> it's epic what happened, but you know what, it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. >> but harvey, continues to test that lone star strength and resolve. >> reporter: there are more than 17,000 people in area shelters, thousands more have been

expects, before it's over, there will be at least 10,000 more who needed a place to stay. jay gray, nbc news, houston. >> our meteorologist amelia draper has been in texas. she was there before this storm moved in. that's right. amelia, you've been talking to so many great people. who did you find today out there? >> reporter: before i even talk about who i found today, susan you make such a good point. so many wonderful people here, neighbors helping neighbors, it's been heartwarming to see how wonderful the people are down here. knowing that they -- a lot of them have lost everything and they're just here at our hotel with the clothes on their back even. so today we wanted to go out and drive around and see how far we could get before we encountered flood waters. before we even encountered flood waters, take a look at what we saw at an area

>> so there are some curfews in place around the area, that grocery store closing at 4:00. they were putting a limit on bread, eggs and milk and they were starting to run out of those supplies. especially milk, you can only get two items per family. things like that. but, you know, people in the line were -- had huge smiles on their face. they were just -- it was just amazing to see, you know, how these people are coming together. we ran into one lady who lost everything and she's staying with a friend and she doesn't know how long she'll be there. >> looking at some soups, cheese, tortillas, maybe. we'll make something, i don't know. my daughters and i walked through waist-deep water to get ou

the fact i made my kids walk through waist-deep water, oh my gosh, you know. >> reporter: and i picked what she said there, now i'm thinking about the fact that i made my kids walk through waist-deep water. they're not saying oh my gosh, i need to get ahold of insurance, obviously, they need to. they're thinking about the emotional impact the storm is going to have on their children. also getting word that this -- the rain fall from harvey has now set the record for a tropical cyclone, almost, at 50 inches, just over 49. the previous record, ironically, cyclone amelia at 48 inches back in the '70s. we're out here in webster. we're dry for the most part. it's not pouring, at least. light drizzle is considered dry. it's going to be closed until at least thursday. and still a lot of flooding going on down here. >> i'm sure. and those people at the grocery store, when you said

i was thinking, well, at least they have a home to go to with their eggs and bread. we see these horrible pictures of these poor soles flooded out and trying to be rescued and trying to save their lives. hang in there amelia. >> yeah, exactly. >> let's go to storm team 4, doug kamererer who was in the storm center with more. >> we're tracking what's going on around the area. right now those pictures you see there off to their left, that's what's happening down along our coastline. we have a storm making its way up the coast right now. it did have a chance to become tropical yesterday now it's more of a nor'easter, making its way up the coastline. let's take a look. you see all the rain. we told you yesterday, areas east of the blue ridge, we'll get hit the most. east, that rain is coming down right on through the district. look what's happening out there along the coast. look at that easterly flow here, northeasterly flow, that's what you need,

erosion. winds gusting to about 40 miles an hour. for us, though, if you're expecting people coming home tonight, 95, just a mess right now. a lot of rain. here is the good thing. you notice the back edge, almost to leesburg, around frederick, the rain stopping around the warnton area. it's going to move fairly slowly. i do expect to get out of the rain inside the dc metro area. good news there for us, this storm a very quick hitter. it's out of here by tomorrow. what's next, harvey, actually moving our way for the labor day weekend. but right now, it's just to the south and east of houston, going to make another land fall right around us, the border of texas and louisiana, a lot of rain around the new orleans area, over towards the panhandle of florida. look what's happening right now in houston. the heavy rain is done in and around the houston area. it's all back towards the galveston bay area. look at the extremely heavy rain off the coast. center of circulation, right about here, just off the coastline, m

this way towards the texas louisiana border, so the heaviest rain is done in houston. however -- however, we're going to continue to watch the flooding rise around our area. now, we mention what's happening around our region, as well. mark segraves live right now. we talked about this yesterday, you and i. just really high winds, a little bit of beach erosion. this could have implications down the road the next couple of days. >> when you said, hey, segraves how would you like to go to the beach. we're getting hammered in the past hour, the storm, the wind has really picked up, really gusting. you can see the waves and if you look right over here, you'll see some of that erosion that doug has been talking about here in the beach. this waves and the rain and wind has been pounding all day. but in the past hour here in ocean city, it's gotten much worse. we're in north ocean city at 139th street. look over here, you can get an idea of what some of the wind looks like here right now with these gusts

i can tell you, the ocean water is really very warm. the wind blowing, that's just biting and stinging to the face. now, look up here on the beach access, you'll see these two white vehicles. that is a life guard vehicle up there. we just saw about two minutes ago that life guard jump out of that vehicle, right down the beach. because there were two teenagers who were on their way out on to this ocean, if you complete it to go swimming. she ordered them out of the water and off of the beach. we talked to the mayor of ocean city earlier today about what they're bracing for. here is what he had to say. >> we know we're going to have some low-level flooding in some of the very low areas of ocean city. we get that during big thunderstorms. we've got sustained winds probably in the 25 mile an hour range. we'll have gusts in the 40 to 50-range. all and all i think it's going to be off coast, that it's going to be inconvenient here today and through the early hours of tomorrow, but, hopefully, by t

clear out of here. >> reporter: so everyone down here is hoping by labor day weekend, the big weekend, end of the summer weekend, that the weather breaks and they get a lot of tourists down here. people already have vacations planned. we can also tell you that this same storm system is hitting the delaware shores. you can probably feel that gusts that's hitting us right now. it's pouncing us with this rain, the wind and the sand. this is going to be the scene down here for the rest of the night, reporting live in ocean city maryland, mark segraves, news 4. >> mark, it's wendy, if you can hear me. because it's late august, are there still -- there must be a lot of tourists down there any way. are you seeing a lot of people at the arcades and trying to entertain themselves while this weather moves through? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, you know, we talked to a couple of people on the boardwalk earlier today. who were actually out getting ice kreemt, right up at the southeos

me they've only closed once and that was because of a hurricane, so, people are still here. they're still making the best of it and, in fact, you know, they're out trying to do what they can. the bars are very busy. it's just the beach that is empty right now. >> all right, ice cream and booze, always solves your weather problems at the beach. thanks, mark. >> that's right. well, she was known as a vibrant energetic force. a well-known civil rights act viss in the district. killed in a tragic accident while she was on motorized scooter. >> which stars are using their cewer influen for good, first,

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a local activists is being remembered to -- we'll have that in just a few minutes. but first live pictures right now from texas as the flood water rescues continue in houston. president trump is about to attend a briefing with the officials in the state capitol of texas in just a minute and we will update you once that gets underway. also, we're going to explain how the remnants of harvey could impact our labor day weekend and so many of you have been asking us on facebook, how you can help the millions of

our digital team is working for you now to put together a page with links to organizations that do help those victims. you can open our nbc washington app and search, harvey help to find it. now, the story about the local activist who is being remembered for the many lives she touched an the difference that she made in our world. >> that's right. cassidy was killed while riding our scooter on florida avenue northeast. she worked for the human rights campaign and well-known around dc. darcy spencer spoke to someone who knew her. >> reporter: we're here at the human rights campaign where she worked for the last 17 years. in just a moment, i'm going to read you part of a statement they released earlier today, but i can tell you, they were deeply saddened by the loss of this vibrant woman. her name, cassidy, she was 38 years old. she was a champion for civil rights in the

campaign. she was also a dj and social light. she killed, like you said, saturday when another driver made a u turn in the street. she was known on h street where she had a lot of friend and went out to the bars and restaurants. we visited a restaurant where she's being remembered. >> it's very sad when, you know, someone, unfortunately, you know, passes away before their time and she had a great legacy as a good person and a loyal friend and also a sawvvy businesswoman. >> reporter: cassidy was a vibrant and energetic force for change. her talents were boundless. she was fun, caring, and her positivity was contagious. we loved her and loved working with her, again, that was a statement that was released by hrc earlier

friends also plan to get together to remember her at some point this saturday. back to you. >> thanks so much, darcy. well you can imagine out pouring of social media posed. you can read some of those posts right now on the nbc washington app, just search human rights campaign. >> turning to our weather now. you definitely needed the umbrella if you went out today. it has been rainy all day long and pretty gross out there. one of our photographers went out to haynes point along the patomic to show the massive puddles there. >> he was up in the space station, apparently. >> yeah. >> look at those pictures he got. >> yeah, i love it. that's taking a look right now what harvey is doing. down to the south and looking at houston and looking at new orleans, going to continue to track that storm as it moves our way. right now, we're looking at the storm system, that's in our area, as we continue to watch what's happening here. our syste

area, high temperatures right now only in the 60s for the most part to around 70 degrees trying to see if my system is stuck here, guys, that's what the issue is right here as we move on up. here is what we're going to be looking at, the rain coming in across the region from the east. we've got that right along the i-95 corridor. wouldn't you know it, my computer system is completely crashed, so i've got -- i've got rain drops, well, that way you know it's raining. >> hey. >> it's alive. >> wait a second. we're moving. we're moving. >> all right, good. now i can step in and show you what's happening. we do have the rain. it has been raining just about all day today. most of this rain has been on the light to moderate side, right along i-95. you can see the progression is to the east. you actually starting to see that come to an end, west of the blue ridge. you saw mark segraves, gusty winds, little bit any way of beach erosion. not a major storm for

of like a nor'easter in the month of october. this will have some implications from what we see over the next couple of days. rip currents are going to be into the weekend, too, if you've got beach plans for the weekend. seeing that rain coming down right along some of the heaviest rain around dc, but notice frederick, leesburg, around warrenton, that rain starting to push off to the east. it will continue to do over the next couple of hours. down towards harvey, this has been the big story for the last few days. this will be the big story for weeks to come. the flooding is not going to come down. i saw one report today, one of the official there is in houston, saying some of the flooding may not be over for the next three to four weeks. that's how long it's going to take for all of that water to get into that system. you can see what's happening, very heavy rain just to the east of galveston, making its way up towards portions -- making its way up towards portions of texas and louisiana, too, that's what we'll be watching as we move on through.

79 degrees, mixture of sun and clouds. a very nice afternoon. i think tomorrow is going to be a pretty nice day. but harvey does move our way. we're going to talk about that in the ten-day forecast. i'll have that for you coming up at 4:45. you may want to change your plans a little bit for the weekend. we'll talk about that, as well. i've got some plans i might need to change, too. >> thank you so much, doug, apparently something else changed. someone on the first lady's staff was paying attention to twitter today. we'll talk about the fashion faux pas next in your tuesday trend. new orleans is a resilient community of people, as you know. they are eager to find humor in the face of potential devastat ioif you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. (snaps) if you'd have told me that i could afford... a gig-speed. a gig-speed network.

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trump triggering a twitter storm, look down at her feet, those are sky high stilettos as she heads into a hurricane and flood zone. from magic 102.3. you did switch to more proper

i don't know how you walk across wet lawn in stilettos. >> the damage is already done. >> she was strutting, wasn't she? now, listen it's like do you want to trade in your rainbows for six inches stilettos. it's a big, no, no. so a lot of people were going at her on twitter. her people released a statement saying, listen, we have bigger things to worry about. but what you don't want to do is show up to a flood zone in high heels in waterproof stilettos. >> looks like you're a bit out of touch. >> someone who is showing up spiritually with a lot of money there is beyonce, who was really helping her hometown of houston. >> yes. beyonce, kevin hart, chris brown, nicky manag. kevin hart actually challenged a lot of celebs to donate $25,000. chris brown reportedly donated

$100,000. kan kandiburuss donated $10,000. >> and beyonce is providing a group of her organization. >> and am hiheizer bush is putt on hold. they stopped beer production to can water for the victims of hurricane harvey. they have sent 155,000 cans to aid the victims of the hurricanes. that's amazing. i love it. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> no problem. >> mick jagger is here every tuesday with tuesday trends on magic 102.3. >> and 92.7. >> there you go, listen in the morning. back to you, susan. tropical storm harvey is hitting a region home to some

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taking a look at the radar we've got going on here, showing the heaviest rain right along i-95 in through southern maryland, starting to get out of our western zone and pushing off to the east. speaking of the east, we've got storm ranger 4 out along the coast. a lot of heavy rain down around the ocean city area, around ocean pines. if we did not have storm ranger, take a look at the radar we'll be seeing. we'll not be able to see what's on the coast. good thing we have the storm ranger out there. we'll use it, of course, as we move on and, of course, as we make our way. continuing to track this right now along our area. the rain will be out today, much nicer weather coming in. and then we have to track remnants of harvey moving our way for labor day weekend. much more on that. i'll see you back here. >> president trump and the first lady in austin texas right now for a briefing on response to hurricane harvey and its aftermath. as t

houston. there are new concerns about a threat from well beyond our borders. north korea, the regime's latest mission launch. blayne alexander is tracking it all for us. >> hello to you. what's notable about the latest launch, it was aimed directly over japan, which is a u.s. ally. even though that missile was launched into japanese air space, the message was aimed squarely at the u.s. now, the united nations security council has called an emergency meeting today in response. u.n. ambassador nicky haley said in no uncertain terms that something serious must happen. president trump leaving washington to visit a devastated texas, but forced to deal with another growing crisis this time on the foreign stage. north korea launching a test missile directly over japan, causing leaders there to issue a nationwide alert

he said we'll see. in a statement this morning, a stronger warning from the president, all options are on the table and growing frustration from u.n ambassador nicky hay lee. >> they have violated every single u.n. security council resolution and i think something has to happen. >> the only thing that will get north korea's attention, military action. >> i'm talking about, the launch pad. >> this comes after days of an escalating war of words between the two leaders. >> they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power. >> critics say, tough talk is not enough. >> they simply don't have the people in place right now. i think the north koreans recognize that. >> now, the question, who will se send the

north korea or united nations and president trump both gearing up by response. >> president spoke by phone and both leaders are committed to increasing pressure on north korea, wendy. >> thank you, blayne. let's head back south, now, families in parts of louisiana taking what they can, getting out of their homes as the water starts rising. it was rising so quickly, people had to evacuate over night. and as new orleans marks 12 years, now, since hurricane katrina's land fall. that city is already dealing with flooding from harvey. to make matters worse, one of the city's massive water pumps caught fire. it's now out of service. the storm still has not fully moved into louisiana but today, the governor warned that the worst is yet to come. and we're going to feel the impacts of harvey around here, even if we don't get a lot of rain, gas prices are already creeping up and they could go up higher in the coming days. transportation reporter, adam

checking up prices in your area right now. >> the bottom line, is a lot of people simply have to gas up regardless of what happens in hurricane harvey. now the national average for a gallon of regular right now according to aaa is about $2.37 a gallon. we've seen some prices that are much higher and shell in northern virginia, $2.79 cents for a gallon of regular and just across the street, $2.39 cents. so the prices can variy and aaa says they are expected to go up, especially, over the coming days. now after hurricane katrina, prices spiked about 30 cents over night. they're not expecting that dramatic of an impact of a price spike, but still, it could be about a quarter that gas prices go up. that's because so much oil production could be shutdown in the gulf coast. regardless, some drivers say they have no choice, they have to drive. >> i have to

and. i have to pull up and pay whatever they're extorting me for. we'll see that impact at the pump. back to you. >> the head of the prestigious washington school, says the school was betrayed, ripped off by a former official. that school sent a letter to parents today, just one day after our scott macfarlane revealed there's a federal investigation to police the school of nearly $100,000. scott joins us now with the fallout from this. >> yeah, wendy, the employee needs to help manage the i-team system. investigated by the secret service and charged by the feds, accused of buying tens of thousands

credit card but returning the devices immediately and cash refund on his credit card. hours after we reported the case last night. the school sent a letter to parents, confirming some what we reported last night that it confronted and fired in 2015 when it discovered a missing computers. they said, the actions constituted a violation of the school's rules and policies, as well as betrayal of the trust we placed in him. response, administrative team immediately put in place to prevent such breaches in the future. the attorney has not responded to a request for comment. he's scheduled to appear in a federal criminal charge in december in dc. let's keep you posted, susan. >> all right. thanks so much. winning is off, the venue has cancelled. it's an absolute nightmare for a soon to be couple. and we continue to follow breaking n f

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rnch . well, we continue to watch this rain and through the region right now, a lot of rain just to the east of i-81, it will continue through the evening commute. but how long will it last before out of here. and labor day weekend, we've got remnants already on the way. we'll talk about that coming up. >> private school thinks that wearing a redskins t-shirt is a sign of disrespect. this year anything redskins oriented is against the dress code. the school in bethesda saying the redskins' name and

create a campus of respect. they tell us this was a group decision. >> it came from a number of different places, one as it came out of a third grade classroom, and they were talking -- they got into a discussion about our local football team and in a sense that this was something that was disparaging. >> he goes on to say, he doesn't want anyone to feel guilty about cheering for the team and he's a fan, as well. >> first at 4:00, as you can see construction on homes and billings, ever wonder why it's taking so long to complete. maybe because companies are hiring workers. the report released today by the associated general contractors of america shows, 70% of companies cannot find enough skilled workers as demand increases, even finding young people has become a problem for them. >> i think consumers

time they step into a store, drive on a bumpy road, look for housing, they will notice the impact of construction shortages. >> now, half of construction companies are even offering more money for project managers and supervisors, that is still not enough for workers to actually sign on. american university is hoping that expelling students will send a powerful message at the start of this school year. and where were you when princess diana was killed in a car crash in paris. we'll hear from one man whoays s

before tracking two big storms at this hour, first, harvey, of course, this is new video. this is a flooded highway. just one example of that devastation there and the city's fire chief says his agency has responded to more

harvey inundated much of that city. meanwhile another storm is taking aim at the east coast in ocean city maryland. there are strong winds there high wind and concerns about possible beach corrosion. doug and lauren, both tracking storms. >> we are definitely tracking both of them. the one along our coast, is more of a nor'easter-type storm. thinking it could become tropical storm i rrkrma. harvey could also be impacting us. >> as people get away for the weekend, labor day weekend coming up. we'll be watching that closely, more rain for us, of course, on the weekend. >> been kind of a rainy day, for sure, this guy, out there towards the bethesda area. not phased by the rain, doing a lot of yawning and hunting this afternoon, very rainy day outside, for sure, m t

kids. all right, out there right now. we're dealing with the rain across our area. you see what's happening right along the blue ridge here to the east, that's where all the rain is. notice this, this is where you get the nor'easter, look at the wind, rain coming back in. that's from the wind coming in the northeast direction. now, baltimore, washington, down towards fredericksburg, that's where the rain is along i-95. you folks are going to be dealing with the rain in august. leesburg, warrenton, starting to dry out here. off to the east, as well, where it is, really, impacting over towards the beaches, we've got storm major 4 out there. we've got a live shot out there, looking out from the parking lot here, we have to send it in an area because the radar is actually on top of this camera right now doing this thing and showing us what to expect. as a matter of fact, i want to show you this real fast, come back to the pictures and notice, here is storm ra

lose all of this participation and all of this rain out there and so we have to keep it on there for our area, so that really does help us a lot. baltimore, dc, the rain continues to move out of here, but, but, as this moves out, the remnants of harvey will be moving in just in time for the holiday weekend, with more on that and go back to lauren. >> yes, and we're going to be watching harvey as it moves out of the gulf and right into our area. right now, winds are up to about 50 miles an hour, still a tropical storm. it sped up just a little bit, which is good news. it was so slow, when i say sped up right now we're seeing it move about 9 miles an hour, 6 miles an hour, and too -- so, again, harvey dropped in terms of rain fall, well, you know, it has dropped over 1,919 trillion gallons of rain. chesapeake bay holds 18 trillion gallons and the rain continues to fall. and it's now starting to see it come to an end,

that track kind of takes more of a northeasterly turn. you can see the eye just to the south and east of houston. heavier rain coming through the area and just along the coastline right there. new orleans still seeing a little bit of rain, of course, the anniversary of hurricane katrina and move up towards alexandria and western portions of louisiana, eventually becoming the tropical depression and moving right across the united states and right into our area, so, doug, let's talk about for the rain for the weekend. >> drying out here, tomorrow, thursday, friday looking pretty good, friday, though, the remnants trying to move up. we'll see more violence and see the showers on the increase, too, high temperatures only in the upper 60s to low 70s, tracking harvey on saturday. this is the day i expect to see the most rain from harvey, i do not expect flooding. i do not expect any problems, other than the fact we've got showers out there on labor day weekend, sunday and monday, actually, looking

for the next chance of rain in the middle of next week. guys, we'll continue to track both of these storms, the latest coming up next at 5:00. >> all right, doug, thanks so much. well, a new study may change what you think you know about skin cancer. jim hanley is in the newsroom with more on this story and others we're working on news 4 at 5:00. >> as the summer goes down, you might put away the bathing suits and beach bags, that doesn't mean you should stop paying attention on the sun. some signs you need to look out for and something easy that we can do that can help protect us from skin cancer. also tonight at 5:00, a huge night ahead for the choir direct of a prince georges county church, his choir is performing tonight on the nbc hit "america's got talent." we'll be hearing from him just hours before his biggest performance yet. plus, a redskins player getting emotional as he talks a toll of rv

we'll see what those stories plus a good deal more coming up right here in just about 10 minutes. >> see you down here, in a minute. thanks. >> this is an issue that has worried parents and students for years. an under ground fraternity recruiting members throwing parties at american university. as justin reports, 18 students have now been expelled. >> american university now really cracking down and making a prime example of this under ground case, expelling the 18 students who were involved and also placing another on probation just as the new school year is beginning. this group called itself excellent or ei. the american campus about 15 years ago, officials say, after the alpha town omega frat disbanded this chapter here on the american campus. about 15 years they were operating without being properly recognized, also acting like a frat while recruiting people

campus parties here. news 4 intern, matt holmes said he has been covering ei for some time and his reputation, drugs, under age drinking, hazing and physical violence. >> i think the reaction that everyone is relieved. in 2014, there were members that were accused of trying to hit one of their pledges. >> they're holding these 19 students who were disciplined will send a lesson here and operate around the campus. there are campus office without a statement reading here, that they have pe perpetuated and th should send a clear, strong message to anyone involved with groups engaged in activities prohibited by the conduct code. we've also learned that not only campus police look into it, but also dc police, as well. in northwest, i'm

studio. >> thursday will mark the 20th anniversary since the death of princess diana. a crash, remember, paris killed her. a doctor who passed by, remembers running into the tunnel where it all happened. >> i talked to her. i don't believe in destiny, but still i think that was -- i think it was a good thing i drove that way that night. >> diana's body guard was the only person who survived. eternal flame has become a memorial for tourists to pay their respects. we have continuing coverage coming up for you on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00. >> his wedding scheduled to take place in texas this weekend. what he

with flood waters still rising in houston, tan of peopleir have homes, many of them now in one emergency shelters set up acros. they're filling up,w shelters ao in neighboring states. one woman taking shelter in a soccer stadium in houston is trying to contact family and friends to to they will their wedding is off. the groom, stranded in boston. nbc's michael rosenfield about the disappointing turn of events. >> the groom here. the bride stuck in a soccer stadium in houston. the wedding scheduled for this coming weekend now off. >> that's not going to be a wedding. >> lopez, a

university came up for his bachelor party. >> flights are being cancelled. looks like i won't be leaving until wednesday. >> meanwhile his fiance went to the airport to pick up his mother on friday. everything was fine until they tried to return home. >> we made it one block and it was just water and i thought -- i was pulling so i got scared. >> anita and her soon to be mother-in-law ended up spending two nights in gas stations, and eventually found safety in a soccer stadium where a cousin works where they remain stranded. >> so much work and trying to get everyone to come down. >> she reaches out to friend and family to cancel the wedding. two years of plans. the venue told them to postpone. >> it's disappointing. there's nothing we can do. it's mother

now, at 5:00, harvey hits again. the remnants of this powerful storm now spinning towards louisiana, but texas not yet out of the danger zone. >> more evacuations today as the waters rise and the storm makes land fall again while president trump gets his first look at the devastated area. >> this was of ep pick proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. >> doug tracking the the latest on harvey and the devastation down there around the houston area. plus i'm watching the storm system that's been in our area all day today and got to make for a nasty afternoon rush. labor day weekend, harvey could come our way. >> nearly four days, this storm is wreaking havoc in the gulf. good evening i'm wendy reeger. thousands more have been evacuated with flood water on the rise today for a record

17,000 trying to find shelter. houston's convention center, which prepared for 5,000 e vak wees, is nearly doubling in capacity. >> the day you saw the president and first lady travel to texas to see the damage firsthand. acknowledged it's too early for congratulatio congratulations. >> the initial number of people killed, it's grown to four, now, that includes a houston police officer. the city's chief says steve perez, a 34-year veteran got caught in the flood waters after driving more than two hours to report to duty on sunday. >> wife told me she had asked him not to go in. his response was, i've got work to do. if the lord is going to take me today, how do you think you would want to go, laying in bed, watching a disaster, or doing what he's done