. most people still don't have power. >> news 4 continues the coverage on fort lauderdale beach. david, i saw some of your video earlier of the sand piled high and so far in from the beach. >> reporter: and you can see right now, pat and leon, that the road here, this is

perhaps you have family down here, perhaps you visit here. this is a-1-a, that main strip you drive along and it's been reopened. what i've learned here in the aftermath of a hurricane is that they have to handle it the way we do after a blizzard. they have a lot to clear from the streets. in this case, sand instead of snow. you see all this sand that's piled up along the beach? this is all that was sitting on a-1-a. the main ocean drive highway that heads northbound along fort lauderdale beach. and all of this sitting on the road was about 10 inches high when crews got here this morning. it is a lot to clean. today spent much of the day trying to clear this. now, how do you do that especially when folks are starting to break away from curfew? curfew ended this morning at 10:00. they had to put checkpoints up so as to keep people from coming down here. i'm going to cross the street here because some of those checkpoints are still up. so, they can continue to clean a lot of this roadway. but the biggest problem has been somof

as well. so, you not only have sand but you also have the debris that's building up with trees and flooded roadways as well. let me show you this as folks here are trying to clean off the sidewalk. again, kind of like snow coverage, right? they're trying to clear it, to reopen their businesses. they've been closed in some cases for 48 hours. as we continue our coverage tonight, i'm going to take you around south florida. i'm going to show you some of the damage we encountered and some of it is pretty significant. but ndour that's the latest here in fort lauderdale. pat and leon, send it back to you. >> thank you, david. a long road ahead for the folks there. david will continue to bring us stories from south florida. he'll be reporting on it and we'll be looking to how you can help the victims in florida. see what you can do to help out. >> now to breaking stories back here at home, we're following two big stories at this hour. the family of a missing pregnant teacher making a plea to the

oor afternoon. and for the first time we're hearing from the woman's boyfriend. news 4's kristen will update us in a minute. first in charles county where a 2-year-old boy drowned at a home day care. it happened this morning at the small wonders day care nursery on york town road in waldorf. eric ward is at the county sheriff's office with the emotional toll this has taken. not only on family and neighbors, derek, but also on deputies. tell us about it. >> reporter: well, indeed. you know, we've heard accounts about how the first responders will come by all this. of course, there is an investigation now going on with the child's county sheriff's there is office. there is no blame assigned yet. it is early in the investigation, but in a tragic case like this, you might say everyone involved is a victim. neighbors realized something was wrong. police and fire and ems rushed to this home in the 3600 block of york town road in waldorf. they know there is a home day care center there. >> i was

hurt and somebody was going to be okay. >> reporter: the news was bad. it involved the child and the home of the day care provider. police say they were three children in the home at the time and the provider was preparing breakfast. one of the children, a 2-year-old boy, wandered away and found his way to a raised pool off the rear deck of the home. the provider called police immediately. they arrived and did cpr on the child but he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. neighbors say this is a tragedy that's befallen their community. even first responders were visibly shaken. >> this was one of those that you carry with you. so, the quicker you get some care to the officers and the responders, the better they'll >> reporter: be. >> reporter: there is an investigation into the incident, but it's left this neighborhood reeling as it has all of the families involved. now, this is a properly licensed home day care provider and the news 4 eye team has looked into this. they found out that this place was last inspected in june and at that point there were no issues, no citationr

still under investigation and an autopsy is pending the exact cause of death. we are live in waldorf, derrick, news 4. back to you. >> sad story there. now let's turn to new developments in a missing woman for a week now. we are hearing from her he boyfriend. he pleaded for her safe return. >> if somebody has her, please understand that you've taken away a huge, huge person in so many people's lives. >> news 4's kristen wright attended today's press c conference. she joins us in front of his home in olney. >> reporter: first a lot of first i questions. first i want to show you some of laura's students have left a couple of letters on her front door. one of them saying that they're putting as much positivity into the world as possible. for the first time as leon menti,

laura's boyfriend today. police say he's also the father of the baby, laura's four months pregnant. her boyfriend said her disappearance is a complete shock. tyler sat next to her parents holding her mother's hand at the press conference. he says he and laura were so excited about the baby, going to doctor's appointments together, having son owe grams. one of those images hanging on laura's refrigerator just last week. so, i want you to listen here to laura's boyfriend today making this plea to her. >> laura, if you're listening, it doesn't matter what's it happened. it doesn't matter -- doesn't matter what type of trouble. there's nothing we can't fix together. myself and your family. there's so many people, so many

there are so many people that were out. we haven't slept. we haven't eaten. we're just looking. we're praying that you're safe. >> reporter: they announced a $25,000 reward to find his daughter. police still treating this as a missing persons case. they are waiting for forensic tests to come back on laura's suv found in a parking lot at an apartment complex near her school last week. also waiting for some forensic testing to come back from other items that they have taken in this investigation. so, we'll keep you posted on the very latest. back to you. >> thank you, kristen. >> as we mark 16 years since the september 11th attacks, president trump says he'll do whatever it takes to keep america safe. >> the president started his day with a moment of sigh lelence oe the white house, the first time the plane struck one of the twin towers in new york city. and at the pentagon he pmi

haven. >> we are making plain to these savage killers that there is no dark corner beyond our reach. no sanctuary beyond our grasp. and nowhere to hide anywhere on this very large earth. >> while the president marked the day at the pentagon, the vice-president was in shanksville, pennsylvania. he went there to remember the 40 heroic victims of united flight >> 93. >> nearly 3,000 innocent people died on 9/11, and almost all of them died at the world trade a center. a bell tolled at the moment each plane hit, and victims' relatives read the names of the more than 2700 people killed when the towers fell. some families still don't have closure 16 years later because their loved one's remains have never been identified. >> only on news

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chopper 4 covering more breaking news for you this afternoon. montgomery county fire rescue crews just pulled a woman out of the potomac river in potomac, maryland. she fell into the c & o canal between angler's inn. we don't know why she fell, but she is out of the water. >> now to a story that you'll see only on news 4. a local woman swindled out of thousands of dollars by someone claiming to be a psychic. this afternoon the psychic is in custody and we've learned it's not the first time she's been in trouble. megan fitzgerald talked with the private investigator who helped track her down. megan joins us in the newsroom with details on the rather bizarre story. megan? >> reporter: pat, it really is. the victim is in her 20s. she asked not to be identified. she said it started in may of 2016. she was looking for a psyching

across a woman named gina marie marks who went by the name natalie miller. marks convinced the victim that she had bad energy around her and in order to fix the problem she had to fork over thousands of dollars. >> and she claimed that she had the power to fix everything and she said that i have something, black magic behind me, some darkness around me, that i need to be removed. and she just, you know, kept asking me for money and money, and over and over again and said, you know, she needs more money to do the rituals. >> reporter: brenda says in november of 2016 after she gave marks more than $82,000, she realized she was being scammed. the so-called psychic stopped answering her calls, so brenda called police and private investigator bob nygard. a warrant was issued for marks' arrest, but she fled montgomery county.

miami international airport and called police. he was rolling when officers approached marks and took her into custody. nygard says this is not his first run-in with the suspect. >> and i had her arrested somewhere around 2010 for defrauding three women of $503,000, in that case she paid back the women the $503,000. she was sentenced to 18 months in a florida state prison. >> marks is expected to be extradited back to montgomery county to face grand theft charges. police believe there are more victims out there so they're asking anyone who dealt with marks to give them a call. pat and leon? >> all right. >> unbelievable. >> that is unbelievable. >> unbelievable. >> pretty big numbers there. >> nice, megan. >> doug, our weather is changing a little. the skies don't look the same. what do we have can coming? >> we have irma. >> it is not going to have a big impact on our weather at all. you may need to carry the umbrella the next few days, but that's it. no real wind or downpours,

moves up. today the only effect is the cloud cover. we started offer with a nice afternoon or nice morning today. we see the clouds make their way in. 73 degrees, winds out of the northeast at 10 miles an hour. we are still very cool for this time of year. right now only 66 degrees in winchester, 67 over towards the gaithersburg area. a cool afternoon at least for this time. the afternoon high temperatures around 81 and we haven't seen 80s since last week. we'll get there eventually. now, a couple of showers not today, though, tomorrow is the day. so, nothing on the radar now. here come the cloud. you see them moving up here. you see the remnants of irma. irma a tropical storm with winds of 60 miles an hour, just south and east of the atlanta area. flooding on the east coast as well as continuing to see storm surge along the west coast of florida. we're not done with this storm by any means. as a matter of fact, some of the worst flooding in the history of jacksonville going back to

surpassing that flood right in downtown jacksonville. they're still seeing that here. that is going to move our way. we are seeing the cloud cover. this is tomorrow morning. notice around 1:00, we have the cloud cover around the area, but not much in the way of showers. you see a couple here back towards west virginia, but we have a better chance into tomorrow night as irma really just kind of breaks up and sends a piece of energy our way. here is wednesday morning 5:00 a.m., some shower activity out there. same deal around 9:00, 10:00 in the morning on wednesday. cloudy, a little on the cool side, and yeah, we have a chance for showers but not that many. even sunshine late in the day on wednesday. now, we've got irma moving in towards the united states. this will continue to weaken. and we have jose. we've been talking about jose for the better part of a week, too. it is now just to the northeast of the bahamas. looking very ragged, but currently let's take a look at the current position here. and the current strength, it has winds of 105 miles an hour. that's a category 2 storm. still a pretty s

moving to the north at 9 miles an hour. here's the problem. i'll let this play out and you'll see what i'm talking about. okay. it goes up to the north and then back around towards the u.s. now, where does it go from here? almost all the computer models i'm looking at keep this very close to the east coast of the united states. we're going to have to watch this, yes, very, very closely. it does bring it -- now, this is saturday 8:00 a.m., the national hurricane center says 90 miles an hour at that time. that's just a category 1 hurricane. but it's something we're going to be watching very closely even in our area. now, as far as the school forecast goes tomorrow, not bad. yes, i still think we get lunch outside or recess outside for the kids. 62 degrees at 7:00 a.m. not quite as cool because of the cloud cover we had. 3:00, temperatures around 74 degrees. looking pretty good there. here's the next ten days. wednesday, thursday, friday, each day a chance for shower activity. but not a lot of rain coming through here. and by the weekend looking pretty good. my brother by the way came up from miami. he's t

the last couple of days. he's like, it's cold up [ laughter ] >> yeah, what happened to summer? thanks, doug. >> you bet. >> that's crazy. at least he's dry. all right. let's go now to some breaking news. this word just coming in, this is route 29 at route 32 just over the montgomery county line in howard county. a garbage truck there actually was on fire and the load there got dumped onto the road. caller actually -- driver actually noticed the truck being on fire and notified, stopped the driver. they called 911 and right now as you can see, traffic has been squeezed over to just one lane, only one lane getting by there through this scene. once again, this is route 29 at route 32 near the howard county line. and right now the fire is definitely out. we know that for sure. but we don't know anything else about the status of either the driver or the truck. so we'll keep you posted. >> first at 4:00, a daughter's lasf

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festival. >> that's right, access hollywood cooper joins us. what's the word with clooney? snoor hi, guys. they revealed to us at the toronto film festival what he and amal vowed not to do when it comes to the twins he will a and alexander. >> you talked about privacy. have you thought about how you're going to introduce pictures of your kids to the world? >> we kind of like to not have to do that at all. you know, that's the truth. you kind of hope to be able to give them a little bit of privacy along the way. >> well, george and amal may not want to release the photos, guys, but they have to in order to take the paparazzi bounty off of them for the first photo everybody is clamoring for. by the way, george says if it happens he's going to donate the money to charity. he was in toronto to promote his new film suburb-icon which he wrote and directed. i know there's millions of dollars, but i feel bad they have to do this for the

paparatzi. >> didn't we go through this with prince and beyonce and all that? >> yes. >> i like how you put it. >> let me ask you this. are you excited about the new movie it? did you see it this weekend? >> i didn't, as a matter of fact. i hear it was huge. didn't it set a record for box office? >> oh, my gosh, pat and lee i don't know, 123 million this weekend. i don't like clowns. i don't like any form of clowns. they scare me to death. this is that steven king book, it looks so scary. the little boy chasing the thing that goes down the drain. do not go down the drain. i hear the movie is actually really funny. fun to see the box office numbers. there aren't big names in there and it is just killing it. >> amazing how much money you can make with clowns. terrifying and people go out and get terrified. >> ho about that. what else do you have coming up on access? >> guys, cindy crawford and randy gerber's daughter killing it at fashion week. remember the old photos of cindy back in the day, pepsi? i love that shot. anyway, her daughter kaya is 16.

it's really great to see her on the cat walk. i swear it looks like her mom. she was there with her brother. so really fun to look back at all the fashion. and really cute stuff with jen na tatum surprising her nude and that is always a good combination, uggs. >> okay. >> too much for you guys on this monday? >> that look isn't going to work for everybody. i can tell you that. >> thank you. kit hoover, see you tonight. >> see you in a bit. >> well, you've heard by now the gas price s are going up because of the hurricanes. why the worst may not be over, and how much longer we're going to be paying more. >> it happened more than ten years ago, but her emotional wounds are still raw. a woman lit on fire inside a verizon store by her

>> announcer: >> announcer: you're watching news 4 at 4:00. >> first at 4:30, we are tracking the local impact of irma. we're here now in the storm center with amelia draper. amelia, we've seen what it did there. here we are seeing clouds build up, but how much rain are we going to get from irma? >> thankfully we're not talking about a lot of rain here from irma. maybe a few light showers throughout the workweek. it's one of those weeks you want to keep the umbrella

seeing here. this is mainly in parts of florida. the keys really took a hard hit from irma. and then as it continued north, really best case scenario and doug is putting together an interesting kind of track and how it was the best case scenario in the end, he'll have that coming up at 5:00. i do want to show you the local impacts here as we head right now over to max 2. you can see this is tonight, 9:00, mostly cloudy skies. and you can see here's irma still impacting parts of the southeast, up through already parts of virginia at that point. and then as we move toward 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, well, the clouds start tomorrow morning still from irma, but notice showers still out of the area and parts of virginia, north carolina, then further back to the west. by lunch time tomorrow, showers start to sneak in but they don't have any success. we're just tracking a lot of cloudiness tomorrow from start to finish and maybe some showers during the evening and overnight hours. now, wednesday morning it could be a slow go for that morning commute. and this would be due to some showers from irma, but you can see very, ve

and then it looks like finally by the midday and afternoon hours wednesday, we start to see limited sunshine returning. again, lyanne is going to have more on where irma went and why it is a best case scenario because it was such a powerful storm. >> it is causing a ripple effect in other areas as well. as you know, hurricanes irma and harvey are driving up gas prices across the country. likely you've noticed if you've been out filling up your tank recently. gas price s are up 30 cents over the last few weeks. according to aaa the national average 2.67 for regular. up 5 cents from a week ago and about 50 cents more than a year ago this time. refineries are still off line in the gulf after hurricane harvey and long lines for gasoline all over florida before irma have drained gas supplies. hurricane harvey, hurricane irma, the earthquake in mexico, it has been a really wild couple of weeks of devastation. many areas impacted are vacation hot spots. so, what does it mean for people who are forced to cancelhe

evacuated or who plan on traveling in the future? consumer reporter susan hogan working for you. she's got what you need to know about travel insurance. susan. >> well, that's right. the caribbean, florida, beautiful get aways, as you know, whether you planned on visiting them now or in the future, when natural disasters like this strike, are you protected? so, we've got megan cruz here, executive director at the u.s. travel association and she's here with valuable insight for us. out of the gate, let's talk about those people who are watching if you have future travel in any of these areas, is it too late for them to get travel insurance if for any reason that trip is canceled? >> so, if you're speaking specifically like hurricane irma, which has already become the named event, it is too late to be covered if you have not purchased travel insurance already to be covered for that event specifically. >> if it's a named -- really, since it was named irma, so any future travel on a different hurricane if something happens, you're

>> you would be okay. the lesson learned there is that you should book your travel insurance when you book your trip because you don't know what could happen between now and then, whether it's a weather related event, whether you are injured, whether you or a family member falls ill. you just don't know. >> let's talk about folks who were there in the path of irma, and they were one of the evacuees and they've lost part of their trip. what recourse, if any, do they have? >> sure. so, the good news is that travel insurance is there for you. it's there to cover the unforeseen. your travel insurance policy will likely be able to cover any of those nonreimbursable expenses. so, anything that the airline or your cruise will not reimburse. the key there is that you want to check with your prafl provider first. find out maybe if your airline is able to change your plans and waive any of those fees, cancellation fees, anything like that. you want to do a little research there before you go

make those changes. >> right. >> something that is also included with your travel insurance comprehensive policy are assistant services. so, not only will you be reimbursed for those expenses, but you can get some help in making alternate plans. >> gotcha. we could talk about this forever. thankfully we can because coming up at 4:45 we're going to be having a facebook live chat with megan. so, if you have any questions about travel, we will have that for you and we also have information for you on our nbc washington app, just search travel insurance. back to you guys. >> all right, thank you susan. a new mother and her baby remain in critical condition today. the family says the baby came seven weeks early on friday because the woman's boyfriend set her on fire. the fight for survival for andrea greenwich and her baby are now waging. that fight is now waging. and it's all too familiar to another woman, yvette cage. prince george's county chief, bureau chief explains that cage can't help but

recalling her own experience with domestic abuse. >> i never deserved to have gasoline poured on me and set on fire. >> reporter: when she heard the anger of andrea greenwich's family she felt the need to make a rare public experience. >> her pain, i carry every time i hear another copy cat doing what my husband did to me. why? >> reporter: 13 years and more than 50 surgeries after she was set on fire, yvette now a grandmother is still shocked by domestic violence and how far it can go. >> i can only imagine what the mother and this child is going to go through. the next several years. really the rest of their lives. >> reporter: 13 years ago kate was do you sayused with gasolint on fire by her ex-husband. >> i spent 92 days in the hospital. i asked the doctors when was i

they told me six to nine months. but i had my daughter waiting for me at home. >> reporter: her plan is to stand with the greenwich family as she has so many other victims. domestic violence. >> i know that i have to do something about domestic violence because i've been in domestic violence for over 25 years of my life. >> reporter: it's a difficult time for her. she is still waiting to hear whether her ex-husband has made parole. meanwhile phillips, the man accuse of the setting his girlfriend on fire is still being held in d.c. expected to make his first appearance in prince george's county at some point this week. in upper marlboro, i'm tracy wilkins, news 4. >> if you or someone you know needs help, open the nbc washington app and search safe at home. you'll find a link there to local resources for people affected by domestic violence. >> an update on the family trapped inside of this crushed car, you may recall this from last week. we saw this crash scene. first at 4 where the family was headed when a food truck slammed in

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all all right. apple is expected to unveil an army of new must-have gadgets tomorrow. as usual the company is keeping quiet ahead of the announcement. information leaked over the weekend, though, and is suggesting we are going to get to see three new iphones. all of them with an updated operating system and a new apple watch. >> two parents have avoided prison time, but they won't be able to see their children any time soon after posting these controversial videos on youtube. remember this, mike and heather martin got five years probation in frederick county in a courtroom

they entered an alfred plea on child neglect charges. that mean couple doesn't admit guilt, but acknowledges prosecutors had enough evidence to convict. the couple came under fire for the videos which showed them tormenting their children. the mar titins cannot see their children again unless approved by a judge. the children are still in foster care. >> a live look now over washington. you see the skies there turning grayer. well, that's because that's irma, clouds from irma moving their way here. doug and amelia will be tracking the storm for us. they also have a late summer warm up word for us. how long that's going to last first at 4. >> but first the surprise for news 4's julie kerry today when she went back to the scene of this terrible crash.

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on september 11th. the mayor, along with fire and police personnel, gathered in market square on king street. they held a moment of silence and rang a bell for the victims. september 11th is one of those days that you remember. you remember exactly where you were. most of us do. >> that's right. pretty much everybody does. we've been asking, as a matter of fact, where were you on september 11 of 2001? you can go to the nbc washington facebook page and tell us your story. we've been sitting here talking about our own stories about that. you were actually driving around town. >> yeah, i had seen the picture of the plane flying into the first twin tower on the today show. and i thought, i've got to hurry and get to work. and i dressed and got into my car and sped to work and got to the 11th street bridge. listening to the radio, and heard them announce that it had happened a second time, and that it had happened at the pentagon. and i thought, i looked to the left and i saw the smoke. it was just a

>> yeah. >> when i realized that it was happening as i was sitting there on that bridge. >> surreal is the perfect word to describe what happened that morning. i was sitting in the makeup room. my show on cnn began at 9:00 a.m. and i looked up at the monitors that were there. all four monitors was the same image of the first tower and the impact. i kept thinking, why is every channel playing the same movie? that can't be real. and then i made my way to the set and i was actually on the set, on the air when the second plane hit. and i kept thinking, dear god, please let this be an accident. and as the moments and the hours came and rolled on, we knew it was not an accident. it was just so chaotic and i just remember going into a mode where you know as we do as journalists. you put the blinders on, you go into battle mode. >> you do your job. >> you just do your job. at the same time, so terrified for all the people that had to live through all that. >> and that sinking feeling in your stomach. >> when you realized it was real. absolutely. all right, folks, please send us your experiences. let us know

like for you. >> and go on our facebook page and let us know. >> exactly. now, moving on, in northern virginia there is an outpouring of support for a family dealing with tremendous loss and even more challenges to come their way. a mother was killed and her three children injured in a terrible accident on friday, a grandmother also critically injured in this accident scene. the vehicle they were riding in was t-boned by a food truck that ran a stop sign. you see that red converted bus there. bureau chief kelly is in leesburg where that truck has been impounded. julie, what have you seen, what have you learned about this? >> reporter: leon, you can see right back there, that red school bus converted into a food truck. now, tomorrow investigators will do a complete safety inspection, combing over every inch of it to determine whether mechanical issues had any bearing on that accident. but for the victims' families and friends, their focus is not on the investigation, it is on supporting the caplan family. at the

this afternoon, neighbors were getting the house ready for the challenges that will come with caring for three injured children. once they are released from the hospital. they say the children's father is spending most of his time at anovo fairfax hospital where all of his kids and mother-in-law is being treated. erin caplan was killed, the son badly injured and two girls also hurt. the grandmother who was visiting from ellicot city visiting as well. they are building ramp to accommodate wheelchairs. there is a gofundme page created for the family. it's raised more than $50,000 in just two days. this neighbor says everyone just wants to show support. >> they are wanting to provide them with whatever skill set they have and utilize it to help the family when they come back and they get settled in because this is going to be a long process for the family to come back

of live on without erin being there. >> reporter: now, ben caplan and his grandmother had been listed in critical condition in intensive care. they are expected to survive the injuries. we went back to the crash scene today. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, i'll show you some interesting things we discovered with that close-up look. pat, leon, back to you in the studio. >> all right, julie kerry. a woman on local 4, claiming to be a psychic swindled others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> if she was a real psychic, she wouldn't have been caught. good thing she wasn't. jim and wendy are standing by in the newsroom, hey, guys. >> this woman said she was having relationship difficulties. hello, you're in washington. so, she turned to a woman who said she was a psychic looking for help. >> she wasn't psychic. that turned out to be a costly mistake. police tell us she was scammed out of tens of

>> megan fitzgerald talked to the victim and we'll have more on her story and why she is coming forward tonight. >> plus at 5:00, a d.c. woman moves into a new neighborhood and it seems like a perfect fit. that is, until the break-ins began. >> she said it was made worse by the police who dismissed her complaints. frustrated, the one thing she did to get this issue resolved. >> those stories plus a good deal more and doug's weather. i think we have wet weather rolling in coming up in minutes on news 4 at 5:00. >> all right, guys, let's get the word on it now. >> how about it, doug? >> showers over the next couple days from irma, but this is not going to be a big deal for us at all. i mean, maybe the umbrella, especially wednesday, thursday into friday, so it will be with us for a couple days. but it's pretty much going to look more like this out there. we'll take that. that's exactly what it is, blah right now. cloud cover made it on the way in here this afternoon. current temperature t

73 degrees, the clouds will stick around all night. that will help to not cool us nearly as much. it will help to keep that blanket on top of us. clouds acting like a blanket to keep us warmer overnight. we've seen areas in the 40s and low 50s the last couple days. i don't think we'll be there tonight. 66 by around 11:00. the radar nothing to show, radar is clear. take a look at what we've seen the this is the last 36 hours here. and this is irma making its way through the keys, just to the west of miami, hitting naples square on ask then movind then through the peninsula. i'll have more at 5:15 to show you why this track was actually a blessing in sorts. we'll talk a little more about that. it did make its way right up the coast through the jacksonville area. and jacksonville today not out of the woods. yeah, they're not seeing the strongest winds, 70, 80 mile an hour winds, but the flooding has been historic in the jacksonville area and towards charleston, south carolina, historic numbers coming in as the flow comes in right off the ocean. let's take

video today. i used to work in jacksonville. i know this area extremely well. this is kind the st. john's river. yes, the flooding in this region is now the worst ever in downtown jacksonville. this river runs right through it. a beautiful city down there around jacksonville. with more on what we're seeing, the storm surge and something else that we've seen. it's not just the water coming in. it's the water going out. here's amelia right now with more on that. >> yeah, doug, so many images like this on social media over the weekend. i wanted to explain why this is happening. this is from bay shore boulevard in tampa where you can see water here, typically measured in feet. you can see people out there in bicycles, walking around, not the smartest idea by any means. here's another vantage point of tampa bay. so, why did all the water leave? here's what happens. around the storm system we have winds spinning counter clockwise in toward the storm. so, this is where irma was sunday, i should say, afternoon. what that means is how the winds were flowing around the storm was actually pushing the

then when the storm started to move toward the north just passing to the west of orlando, we started to see the winds come back in, bringing the water back into the bay. thankfully only moderate storm surge flooding there. but then, doug, you talk about jacksonville. it's that same set up with how the winds are. you had winds coming off the water bringing in heavy rain and then winds later today passing over the st. john's river. just inundating the jacksonville area. >> and fortunately for us, that storm is continuing to move out of the state of florida. however, stick wreaking havoc into parts of the south. atlanta reported winds of 60 miles an hour, flooding there. winds of irma 50 miles an hour. this is the latest est advisory just out, tropical storm irma now. winds are moving to the north, northwest at 17. here's the track of the storm. moving to the north and west and as it does close to memphis, by that time it's a tropical depression. it will have some impact on us as it moves back toward our region, light shower act. wednesday, thursday and friday, tomorrow most ly dry. much better as we head tar

temperatures getting into the 80s. that and the latest track on jose. we'll see you at 5:00. >> all right, thank you, doug. >> a tough moment for a local mother. she's meeting the young woman who forever has a piece of her own daughter. first at 4, we'll show you the emotional

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a year ago a local family's life changed forever when a crash killed her 20-year-old daughter on the beltway in maryland. >> yeah, but it's what the couple's daughter gave to five other people that made for an emotional meeting with strangers all now tied together. here's news 4's amy cho. >> i got the phone call 4:30 in the morning from the maryland state police. >> reporter: it's the phone call no parent ever wants. ray and angela's daughter had been in a crash. >> was she going to

she was just the sweetest, sweetest young girl. if she found some money on the street, she'd stop and give what she had. >> reporter: even after she was gone, samantha wasn't done giving. >> she was a donor. i prayed that a young girl would get my daughter's heart and lungs. >> reporter: and one day they got a letter from a stranger named jackie. >> samantha saved my life on june 21st. her lungs continue to breathe for me. every day i'm here is because of samantha. >> reporter: it's because of samantha that they and jackie are coming together. jackie battled lung disease her whole life. she spent months in a coma. nurses said she came within one day of dying. >> i know there is a part of my daughter in there in you. you've got to be a beautiful soul. >> i don't really know how to

not even close to words. i brought a stethoscope with me. >> that's my baby. i felt my daughter, something i've not been able to feel. >> reporter: helping all to feel and breathe a little better, it's samantha's little gift in falls church. amy cho, news 4. >> now at 5:00, just imagine. >> we just want to know she's okay. just want her back. >> the boyfriend of that missing maryland teacher is now talking publicly for the first time. what the family is doing to solve this mystery. >> plus, irma leaves north florida and a path of destruction in its wake. millions without power, homes destroyed, and many still not sure what they'll return to. storm team 4 breaks down what's in store for us. >> it's our top story. again, irma's

swallowing jacksonville right now with pounding rain and wind. crews are in boats trying to rescue people from their homes as this water just keeps creeping in. >> irma is linked now to dozens of deaths. most in the caribbean, two in florida, but those numbers are likely to climb. right now more than 6 million people don't have any power. >> and that's going to make for a rough night of recovery. irma's tropical -- is a tropical storm now, but that does not mean that the danger is over. south florida is trying to assess the damage, but a lot of people found it hard just to get back to their homes. take a look at the traffic. these are cars trying to make their way into miami beach. the miami airport is waterlogged. it was closed today. it hopes to reopen or run at least a limited schedule tomorrow. downtown, crews are working to remove giant cranes that collapsed during the height of the storm. and a scene similar in fort lauderdale wh