and doug kammerer. what are you seeing out there? >> announcer: now here's storm team 4 forecast. >> guys, you mentioned it is a category 4. that is brand-new. latest advisory from the hurricane center winds of 130 miles per hour right now. you see where the storm is, making its way very close to the islands and i just talked about these islands about 15 minutes ago. this is dominica right here. this right here is guadalupe. guadalupe half a million people. dominica less than that. these two will see the worst of the storm. close to puerto rico, maybe a direct hit to puerto rico. this is a situation that is dire, just as much so as irma was for the islands to the north. the islands to the north will get hit again. i'm talking barbuda, i'm talking the u.s. virgin islands. but the eye of the storm may stay just to their south around possibly even st. croix, an island that missed for the most part irma. but this is a storm system we're going to continue to watch. maria a very strong powerful

go to a very weak hurricane, but a very broad hurricane, this is now still a hurricane -- i have to look this up and see if it's still a hurricane, lauren, if you can look that up. this is moving to the north. we have tropical storm warnings along the east coast. this just coming out, too, the latest advisory on jose. still a hurricane? still a hurricane at 75 miles an hour. guys, we'll have much more on these storms, where they're going, where they may go, how they may interact with us, we'll have that for you in about 15 minutes. >> wow, we are in weather whiplash mode. doug, we'll see you in a bit. he died for nothing. that's what a family friend says after someone shot and killed a 16-year-old boy. the victim had been visiting friends at his old apartment complex in d.c. and went to get ice cream when shots rang out. news 4's pat collins is live

>> reporter: jim, security over there all around the place. a 16-year-old shot and killed. two weeks ago a 15-year-old shot and wounded. want to know what it's like to live around here? listen to yolanda. she describes this place as the devil's playground. >> there's always gun fire. >> reporter: you hear the gun fire, you hit the floor? >> hit the floor, hit the bed, hit the gas. whatever you got to do to get out of the way. >> reporter: she just wants to be known as yolanda. she's the mother of four children. she's lived in this complex for six years and she says she can't wait to get out. she calls this place the devil's playground. >> it's dangerous. you have to keep your kids in the house. your kids can't come outside and play. like you always have to watch your back. that's dangerous. like you don't want your kids to grow up like that. >> reporter: it was here last

was shot and killed. his mom says he was a sophomore at bell yu high school. she says he was here visiting some friends when he was gunned down. witnesses say they heard about a dozen shots. they say they came from this wooded area back here. the bullets hit this wall here, there, and up on top. into the door here, the glass here, and into the post inside. the young man, he was struck. he stumbled inside to an apartment. he asked a woman for help. i talked to her. she asked not to be identified. did he stumble into your apartment? >> yes. >> reporter: what did he say? >> i've been shot. >> reporter: what did you do? >> told him to hold on. i'm going to call the ambulance for him some help. >> reporter: tell me about him. >> he died for nothing. i watched him grow up. he lost his li

>> all right. that was pat collins with that tragic story for us. we'll be checking back with him later on news 4. wendy? >> there is now a fourth day of mass protest in st. louis after a judge acquitted a police officer who shot a black man in 2011. police say most of the protests during the day have been peaceful, but they are waiting to see whether this violence erupts again later this evening. this weekend, police arrested more than 80 people. and here in our area, two virginia parents are saying that police did not have to shoot their 15-year-old son. an officer opened fire on friday after the teenager reportedly came at him with a crow bar. this happened in haymarket. as darcy spencer reports, friends and neighbors are still shaken up. >> reporter: a relative of the 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police friday morning told me there are serious

there were other ways the confrontation could have been resolved. the family so far not speaking to the media on camera. now, police were called to the home on hartzell hill road after the teen allegedly came to them with a crow bar like this one. police received a 911 call from inside the house. the caller said the teen had a bomb strapped to his chest and was holding a family member hostage. the shooting happened in front of the home. >> the officers gave them several commands to stop and to put down the crow bar, at which point he did not obey them. >> reporter: some neighbors question the officers' decision to shoot the teen instead of using another tool such as a taser to stop him. a police spokesman told me that a crow bar can be used to inflict deadly force. prince william county commonwealth attorney says the shooting appears to be just, but that the investigation is not over. news 4 learned the teen attend the pace west.

gainsville. grief counselors were there today. neighbors say they feel for his family. >> you just never know what they're going through. you never know what people are going through and it just makes you think, you know, reach out and, i don't know, care for people more. >> reporter: ebert says he plans to release the findings of his investigation on tuesday morning. family members and police have not identified the teenager. in haymarket, virginia, darcy spencer, news 4. >> just seven weeks from election day and two new polls in the governor's race in virginia shows it is neck and neck. a survey by the university of mary washington gives democrat ralph northam a five-point edge over republican ed gillespie. but that lead is within the margin of error, and a suffolk university poll shows an actual dead heat, with both candidates at 42%. our bureau chief julie carey is here with a look at how both campaigns are feeling about the state of the race. julie? >> reporter: well, those two ll

contest, the importance of tomorrow's debate only grows. both candidates will be working hard to connect with those undecided voters. they will be the key on election day. the new poll shows both democrat ralph northam and ed gillespie doing well with voters within their party. and gillespie has an edge with independent. getting undecided voters to focus, pick a side, and get to the polls. that's the challenge now. >> what's really going on in this virginia governor's race, this is a challenge for both candidates, how are you heard in the age of trump. there is so little opportunity for even a candidate for governor of virginia to get in the news when the story every day is about president trump. >> reporter: gillespie supporters encouraged by the latest polling, but the state republican party chairman cautions he doesn't put much stock in polls any more. >> it's good news it's close, but it's not showing us winning and until election day really the only poll that matters,

we're doing. we feel great where we're at in this race. >> reporter: political analyst says there is good news for the northam in the numbers, too. >> ralph northam has two advantages. you have an unpopular republican president and prepopular democrat. that may help. >> reporter: what may help is a big cash advantage. at the end of june after a tough primary, northam lags behind gillespie in campaign funds. but over the summer northam raised twice as much money as his opponent. at the end of august northam had $5.6 million on hand as compared to $2.6 million for gillespie. >> i'm ralph northam, candidate for governor. >> reporter: more money means he will be able to spend more money 0 not political ads. gillespie, too. >> together we will win this race. >> there is no doubt in my mind both campaigns will have more money than they'll know what to do with. the stakes are so high. >> reporter: high stakes because the outcome of this governor's race will be seen as a referendum on donald trump's

could be coming in the 2018 congressional races. now coming up at news 4 on 6:00 i'll look at the critical debate, what to watch for and what to listen for. back to you now. >> you'll be on the panel, i'll be covering it. we look forward to that day. because of tomorrow's debate our programming will change. news 4 at 6:00 will be 30 minutes followed by nbc nightly news. the debate airs live at 7:00 tomorrow night right here on news 4 and on our nbc washington website. we'll of course have highlights at 11:00 tomorrow night. >> president trump back in new york this evening. after years of criticizing this organization, the president delivered his first remarks to the united nations. in his opening, the president pushed for reform, saying the u.n. has not reached its full potential. he also blamed bureaucracy and mismanagement, but he expressed support for the current u.n. secretary. the president will address representatives from all 193 member states tomorrow.

>> oh, it got deafening too loud for nancy pelosi. she was shouted down at an event for young immigrants. the house minority leader had been promoting the dream act when a group of young people marched in chanting. pelosi tried to take questions, but walked out when the group kept yelling over her. organizers for the protest are upset about an immigration proposal that only focuses on daca recipients. >> a woman allegedly gets some unwanted attention during a visit to a local massage parlor. now a massage therapist is nasing charges. reaction tonight from the company. >> plus four college students on semester abroad, attacked by a woman armed with acid. ahead on news 4 at 5:00, the message they want to hear in the wake of that incident. >> and you're buying a home and the bank has approved that loan, but is it really a pay

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a massage therapist is in jail charged with sexually assaulting a client. the man has ties to several massage envy locations in our area. news 4's mark segraves broke the story on twitter and facebook today and he was the only reporter in the courtroom. at the hearing today, he's live outside the spa where the man used to work.

afternoon. in court today, prosecutors said that the suspect told police at the time he was arrested that he did nothing wrong. but today the judge found there was enough probable cause to keep him behind bars until his next court date. this all started yesterday afternoon at this massage envy here in tinley town in wisconsin avenue when a woman ran out of this front door and called police from the sidewalk. the victim told police she was sexually assaulted yesterday afternoon inside this massage envy location on wisconsin avenue in tinley town. she told police she was assaulted by her massage therapist. according to the police report, 24-year-old was charged with first degree sexual abuse of a patient after he assaulted her during her massage. massage envy is a national chain. this location where the incident occurred just recently opened. according to the suspect's facebook page, he also worked at the massage envy location in bowie, maryland. i

see a female massage therapist when i come because it just makes me uncomfortable to see a man in general. but that's awful and shocking. >> reporter: a spokesperson for massage envy's corporate headquarters tells news 4 massage envy requires franchisees to complete extensive background screenings and reference checks and strictly enforce our code of conduct and zero tolerance policy. the therapist at issue is no longer employed by the franchisee. now, because this massage therapist, this suspect worked both at this location and the one in bowie, at least those two that we know of, d.c. police are asking the public if they know inanyone else who may have been a victim of this suspect to give them a call. that is the very latest. we're live in tinley town, mark segraves, news 4. >> marks, some of the women here were talking about this in the makeup room this afternoon. because in a massage room it's just the two of you th

he said, she said, if he denies it? how do they -- how do you gather evidence from this? >> reporter: well, wendy, that is exactly what the suspect's defense attorney told the judge. she told the judge that, look, that is exactly what this is. you have one side of the story from the victim and you have a completely different side of the story from the suspect. he told police he did nothing wrong here. also the suspect has no criminal record, and he tested negative for any drugs when he was arrested. but the victim was taken to a hospital where they performed a follow-up examination. and, so, if there is dna from that examination, that could go a long way to proving this case one way or another. >> interesting. all right. mark segraves, thanks so much. >> a man convicted of rape in montgomery county is accused of trying to escape the feds at dulles international airport and hurting a pair of officers in the process. our scott mrl

now in a story you'll see only on news 4. >> reporter: the picture prosecutors painted is something out of an action movie. they brought him to dull is last month to fly the convicted rapist to ethiopia en route to his home country of togo. he tried to break free and ran to the edge of the top level of the dulles daily parking garage. intimating he might jump. the scuffling continued inside the terminal at least two officers were hurt, including injuries to their arms. that is according to court filings from prosecutors. a registered sex offender, convicted of sexually abusing a child and of rape in rockville in 2006 is now facing a federal fleeing charge. his attorney declined to comment, but he's managed to postpone that deportation back to togo. according to the feds, that's what he was yelling to the federal officers. he said, quote, i'm not going back to togo. i'd rather die than go back to togo. back to you. >> all right. interesting story there. scott macfarlane. scott, thank you.

extra fire power in and around train stations today during london's evening commute. it was the first full workday since last week's bomb blast hurt passengers on a subway car. police raids continued today. detectives searched a fast food restaurant. britain's terror alert level is back down to severe now. londoners are urged to stay vigilant as they go shopping, travel to work and take their kids to school. >> over the course of the next few days, still, keep it safe. no reason at all to be alarmed. be vigilant and a ert will. today is a normal monday. a rush hour on the tubes. >> two men remain under arrest tonight. neither has been charged. both suspects are originally from the middle east. they were fostered by the same british couple. >> four american college students who were doused with acid on a subway in france are asking people to pray for their

attacker. michelle and courtney went on facebook telling people they're okay and that the woman arrested for throwing the acid on them has a history of mental illness and should be forgiven. krug is reassuring her friends, asked, quote, please consider thinking about praying for our attacker so that she may receive the help she needs and deserves. mental illness is not a choice, she writes, and should not be villainized. the women are students from boston college studying abroad. four of them were 1257bding on the subway platform in versailles when a woman threw a weak solution of hydraulic acid from a bottle. two of them were splashed in their eyes but they did not receive serious injure us. they are continuing on with their studies and their travels. >> pretty frightening though in this climate. coming up, a recent crash kills a mom and injures her three children and neighbors say this is a dangerous stretch of roadway. news 4 finds out what's been done to make it safer.

out there as yet another major hurricane swirls in the atlantic. doug is coming back with the latest path. >> and we have some big breaking news coming from the redskins. cravens will not play this year for the burgundy and gold. our sherri burruss has som new e

ralpand i sponsoredralph northam, canthis adfor governor narrator: ed gillespie says dr. ralph northam doesn't show up? dr. ralph northam was an army doctor and a volunteer medical director at a children's hospice. he passed the virginia law requiring concussion standards for school sports. the smoking ban in restaurants. and dr. northam is working to connect veterans to good paying jobs in virginia. ed gillespie is a washington dc corporate lobbyist. he shows up for whoever pays him.

all right. maria has come alive out there, doug. that thing is ferocious. >> it really is. we had irma that made its way to the northern portions of the caribbean islands. this one is going to hit islands that were not hit quite as hard with irma. they thought maybe they dodged a bullet here. that's not going to be the case. irma making its way through there today, into tomorrow and wednesday. that includes the island of puerto rico and some very populated islands as well. let's show you where this storm is right now. maria now a category 4 hurricane, winds of 130 miles per hour. it has really strengthened over the past 12 hours or so. you see the eye of that storm becoming very evident in the last couple of frames there of the satellite. any time you see that eye clearing, let's go head and do a little bit of a close up here. you see that eye clearing. you can clearly see it. that means you have a strengthening hurricane. that's what we saw with irma as it made its way to the north. these islands were hit by irma. these islands

maria, including puerto rico which could take a direct impact here. this is the island of dominica, this is guadalupe. guadalupe has close to half a million people. that's half the population of alaska right in this little island right here. so, they could really take a big hit. dominica will take possibly a direct hit from the storm, about 80,000 people on the western coast of that island. now take a look at the latest track. winds of 130 miles per hour, category 4, moving west, northwest at 9:00 through the islands tonight. by wednesday, 2:00 a.m., it is at 155 miles an hour. a lot of people have asked is it going to be a cat 5? cat 5 is 157. it is going to be extremely close to a category 4. yes, it could be a 5 if it continues to strengthen and then it moves right into parts of southeastern portions of puerto rico. right now the national hurricane center has it at 150 mile an hour hurricane. anywhere from just south of puerto rico to just north. remember, this is the cone of uncertainty. sof

south, but right now puerto rico is definitely in the bull's eye. so are islands like st. croix, the u.s. virgin islands. thank you, and kay coaurks and . i don't think florida has to worry about this. we'll be watching jose as well. jose is still a hurricane, category 1 hurricane. winds of 75 miles an hour. moving to the north, but it is not going to move much at all. 75 mile an hour hurricane, it is moving very, very sloely to the north. it is going to come close to areas like boston moving at 10 miles an hour. watch what happens here. kind of moves and then retro grades and does a little bit of a loop. by saturday, nearly a week away, it's still off our coast line. and this storm will help to steer maria. i know it's a little confusing but where these storms will end up a week, ten days from now, that's what we'll be talking about for days. we will have influence from us tomorrow for jose. you notice what's happening.

east. notice where the rain is out towards the del mar. over the chesapeake bay, yes i think we could see showers and sunshine west of the blue ridge. as we move on through the next couple days not all that bad, guys. as a matter of fact, some pretty nice weather here. 87 on your wednesday, 87 on thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, all looking good, but of course we will be tracking maria and jose all the way into next week. >> we're not getting a break. all right, doug, thank you. coming up, you might be tempted to sleep with the window open, beautiful nights like this. but because of the cooler nights, that comes with a risk. ahead, the search for a man who took an open window as an invitation to do something awful. >> i'm going to read this teleprompter. please forgive me. shout ought to d.c. public schools. here we go. >> yeah. >> a big-time shout out from comedian

john oliver. d.c. public schools on emmy night was trending. how they're trying to ride the wa from this unexpected ve

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campus. >> reporter: well, indeed it did. we are really close to route 1 and maybe a quarter mile south of the university of maryland's main campus. so, you can imagine there are a lot of students in this neighborhood. but a lot of other folks, too. this is sort of where it begins to mix with students and long-time, long-term residents. so, there are a lot of communities that are concerned about what happened here this weekend on guilford road. an open window, this time of year it can be the source of a comforting breeze, overnight slumber. but for someone with ill intent, it can be a window of opportunity. that's what happened in college park this weekend. students got the alert early saturday. >> it was really scary just because i've never not felt safe like around the area. >> reporter: police say around 3:30 saturday morning someone entered a home here on guilford road. that made it a burglary. what that person did inside bumped it up to an assault. >> which led to a woman being inappropriately touched in her home. >> reporter: prince george's county police are leading the investigation into t

off-campus incident, but it's so close to the main campus of the university of maryland students got the word. >> it's a little concerning but i know the university police department and the university take this type of stuff very seriously. >> reporter: police want to make sure students are aware at all times. most are. >> i'm taking more precautions, don't venture out at night especially on friday or saturday nights when there is more likelihood of, you know, people getting drunk and being there. so, just be more vigilant i would say. keep your doors and windows closed. >> reporter: this being a quiet street, police hope someone may have seen something. at the very least, which way the suspect went after the crime. now, prince george's county police are the lead investigative agency on this, but campus police are aware of it, too, just because of the proximity. and coming up late ore on news 4, we'll talk to somebody who said they were hit about the same time this incident happened here. we're live in college park, derrick ward, news 4. back to you. >> all right, something as simple as an open window an opportunity for those who wish ot

>> an update now to another story you saw first on news 4. a new $6 million nature trail is going to be closing temporarily. the cling l valley trail in northwest d.c., it opened about two months ago. it's a public trail. last week we told you that erosion is causing that new pavement to crumble. after our report, the district's department of transportation started notifying community groups there that it will fix this damage. it's not clear how long the work is going to take or when that trail will reopen. your tax dollars paid for the klingle valley trail. the private contractor who built it will now pay to cover up most of those repairs. >> now i'm going to read this teleprompter. please forgive me. shout out to d.c. public schools. here we go. >> there you go, it's that shout out tweeted around the world. hey, did you do your part? some people can't agree, though, if that's a good thing or bad. our kristin wright spoke

ellington school where dave chappelle attended. and they definitely aren't mad about all this attention. >> reporter: d.c. public schools is calling it an unexpected honor. >> now i'm going to read this teleprompter. please forgive me. shout out to d.c. public schools. here we go. >> live dave that shell, i would like to unexpectedly thank d.c. public schools because i think it would be great if it started trending on twitter for no reason whatsoever. >> reporter: d.c. public schools started trending. they shared their surprise with us right now. hello emmy's friends, we're a district on the rise. dave chappelle graduated from duke ellington school of the arts in '91. current director of arts tracy jenkins went to school with him. she was watching. >> it was incredible, incredible. but to hear d.c.p.s. blasted all over the internet was crazy that we were getting text messages all night. did you see it, did you hear it, did you hear? >> reporter: students are buzzing. >> it is encouraging and

that people who have gone on to do great things still care about us. >> reporter: d.c. is buzzing. >> d.c. public school system has the bad est teachers, the bad est students, the bad he felt parents bad meaning good in this sense. and we have alumni like dave chappelle. >> reporter: some thought chappelle was criticizing did d.c.p.s. this person tweeted do you realize he was shouting out to you because he couldn't read the teleprompter? >> he is extremely supportive of duke ellington and d.c.p.s. it's awesome. >> reporter: d.c.p.s. will take it and keep reveling. he gave the address at his alma mater in 2015. the director of arts says chappelle will be back for a visit very soon. in the newsroom, kristin wright, news 4. >> and most of those tweets were positive, but some people got deep. one person said what if he supported with d.c. public schools with funding and support, not

we want to hear from you. do you think it was a shout out or was chappelle throwing shade? it was between a compliment and mockery. less than a third said you don't know what he meant by it at all. >> i say don't overthink it. it was a compliment. >> dave chappelle came out of d.c. public schools. >> and duke ellington at that. and when he goes back it's going to be that brand-new taj mahal they got that just opened last month. >> very nice. now then. >> reporter: after a mother of three was killed in a deadly crash in loudoun county, vdot says changes have been made. coming up we'll look at what's been done to make the roadways safer and an update on the condition of the woman's children. >> continuing to watch two hurricanes. we have hurricane jose and we also have hurricane maria. we're going to be talking about that in the impact on the british islands and when it can make land fall. and

in fact, we have telemundo reporter down there. we're going to be tracking this and all the conditions we're going to see in puerto rico and what that means for us on the east coast with maria. that is coming up in a few minutes. >> boarding up, boarding up hotels. you can see these guys are working really hard to make sure that everyone, all the guests here are maintained safe during this hurricane that is expected to make land fall in puerto rico. as you can remember, last time hurricane irma spared the island but it did cause big headaches when it came to electricity. about a million people were left without power. there's been enormous lines of people trying to get their hands on generators so they have something to depend on in case power goes out. normally the airports here are very busy. today they're starting to look like ghost towns. we know that so many flights have already been canceled. today is the day for people to get ready. obviously this is something not to take lightly. and we will be here in san juan covering everyth

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it's now been more than ten months since the 2016 election. but president trump is still focusing at least some of his twitter energy to knocking his former opponent hillary clinton. the president

showing him swinging a golf club with the ball edited to appear to hit clinton and knocking her over. the part when clinton tripped when she was boarding a plane in 2011. clinton has not commented but california senator diane feinstein released a statement telling the president to grow up and do his job. clinton in the meantime is here in d.c. tonight as part of her book tour. >> what grade are we in? what was that? breaking news from the redskins. the player reportedly considering retirement will now be away from the team for the rest of this season. news 4 sherri burruss has these details for us. hi, sherri. >> hey, jim, it was just in the last 20 minutes we received a statement from the redskins saying cravens will be return to the team the rest of the season. cravens is currently dealing with some personal issues, even considered retirement. you may remember it was about two weeks ago the team placed cravens on a separate list that allowed him a month to make

decision about coming back or not. earlier today head coach jay gruden telling reporters he hasn't heard anything from sua or about sua. he was spotted talking to doug williams at the usc texas game. news 4 sports learns he was just saying hello despite rumors there were conversations he'd return to practice this week. here's what the team just released. quote, today the redskins had officially placed sua cravens on the reserve squad list in accordance with the nfl constitution and by laws, sua will not be permitted to return to the club for the remainder of the 2017 season, including the postseason. we sincerely hope that sua uses this time away from the club to reflect upon whether or not he'd like to resume his career in the national football league in 2018. we're going to be out there at redskins park when the team is back at practice on wednesday. getting reaction from coaches and teammates on this latest news. again, sua

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>> all right. doug, look at this. he's racing across. here he comes around the corner, boom. that's how up to the minute this is. >> jose is huge. we're going to feel some rain tomorrow. is that from jose? >> it is from jose. and just recently we had tropical storm watches and wornings along the del mar. this is good news for goshen city. now under a wind have iery for ocean city, maryland. that's what i was looking at. winds are up to 45 miles an hour. if you have a place in ocean city or

about our beaches. i think our beaches will be just fine. there is going to be some beach erosion, already seeing beach erosion. here it is, you can see jose. it is a very large tropical system starting to become what is called extra tropical. it started out as tropical becoming a tropical cyclone. here's the cold front associated with that. you don't see those with hurricanes. if this was simply a tropical system, you would see a big circle here and no appendages, nothing like that. but this is a very large tropical system. hurricane right now, jose, 75 mile an hour winds. we're going to be tracking it all along the coast. winds moving to the north at 10 miles per hour. on that track, it will move very close towards the boston area, towards the cape. here it is wednesday at 70 miles per hour. they'll see some effects. 6 or 7 miles out of boston, areas of cape cod. then it will move back down and around towards portions of the atlantic. for us we are going to have some impact her

to impact us. remember, ocean is on this side. watch where our clouds come from overnight. see them coming in from the ocean? they are coming in from jose. you see the shower activity towards the eastern shore, too. we should be dry most of the day. if you're out and about take the umbrella. we are going to see some showers. notice around noon, we have a couple of showers. most of them will be very light, but here we are around 3:00. you see some shower activity from i-95 eastward, much better chance of rain east of i-95, especially over toward portions of southern maryland and over towards the chesapeake bay. yes, we will see impact from jose here during the day tomorrow before it starts to move even farther to the north and east. what about maria? maria is the one that we're really going to have to watch and that we're going to be seeing pictures, we've seen a lot of pictures from irma. i think we'll see similar pictures from maria. lauren rick ets on maria. >> this is pretty cool. hurricane hunters are

continue to get updates and that is how we get updates. look at the eye on this. here's maria. here's the hurricane hunters in real time. we will get more information and doug will have that for you tonight at 11:00. this thing is a monster right now. it will continue to move towards dough minute ka. it is right now 45 miles east, southeast of dominica. again, hurricane irma went to the north so now we're going to get on the south side of these lesser antilles islands and that's where we're going to have possibly a land fall in dominica 8:00 tonight. that is geneva convention to be something we're watching. it will continue to travel to the west and head right towards puerto rico, right towards the virgin islands. the impact for the virgin islands and puerto rico will be the biggest impact on wednesday. winds will be over 110 miles per hour. they could have 8 to 20 inches of rain. we're talking mudslides and a lot of stuff in terms of what you'll get with these hurricanes in that area. the last time puerto rico has either had a category 4 or 5 hurric

1928, and then again in 1932 category 4 and category 5 respectively. again, it's been quite a while. they've already taken in a lot of people from irma and irma just brushed them as it moved to the north. again, it is going to be something we're watching for several days. doug? >> still a lot of people without power in parts of puerto rico from irma. that island nation unfortunately is going to take another incredible hit from maria. we're going to be tracking it very closely because we're not done with it in our area. 87 wednesday, thursday and friday. we've got great weather starting after tomorrow. tomorrow some chances of showers, but that's it. and then some really nice weather all the way into early next week. and then we have to watch jose and maria in our area. we're going to talk much more about that. we don't know how these storm systems are going to interact with each other. we'll talk a little bit more about that coming up in the 6:00 hour. >> all right, thank you, doug. neighbors hope the changes will prevent another tragedy. a mother killed, her three children hurt when

intersection. this is in loudoun county. an intersection that many describe as dangerous. news 4's megan fitzgerald show us the efforts underway now to make that notorious corner safer. >> reporter: vdot says they've made a number of changes here on watson road to try and make things safer after that latest crash. for instance, they say they've made this sign right here bigger and closer to the intersection to warn drivers that there is a stop sign ahead. they also say that they've cleared the debris and the brush around that stop sign to make it more visible. they are hoping this helps them prevent another tragedy. you don't have to look far to find someone concerned about the evergreen mills and watson intersection in loudoun county. >> on watson, especially that intersection is terrible. >> i would love something done. >> reporter: neighbors want action after last week's crash which killed their friend erin caplan, and injured her three children and their grandmother.

vdot says their engineers are studying the area to determine if they need to put up a traffic signal. >> i'm going to head in there. >> reporter: meanwhile, all throughout the day neighbors have been in and out of the caplan's home. >> we've all come together in the community to help them out in a time in need and i feel like we've had the support from our community, up in bramelton to support the kids, therron, and do whatever we can to help them out while they're going through all this. >> reporter: neighbors say the two young girls have been released from the hospital and are home recovering. those signs of love and support welcoming them home were already in place. >> i know both of the girls are healing from mainly broken bones. >> reporter: we're told the oldest boy is also healing, but he's still in the icu. >> it's crazy how quickly these kids are coming back. >> reporter: no doubt, it will be a long road ahead, but these neighbors say they'll be here to help out in any way they can. reporting in loudoun county,

>> and the neighbors have created a gofundme page to help with the family's medical expenses. we have all that information on our nbc washington app. >> so, you fell in love with that house at first sight and your bank approved the loan, right? but can you really afford it? our susan hogan is, woulding for you tonight and joins us with some important advice. susan? >> it's so tough. before you sign on the dotted line, consumer reports says make sure your eyes aren't bigger than your bank account. kiera and her husband mike just bought their first home. >> this is the first thing we need to do. >> reporter: when trying to determine their price range, they had two goals. keep their monthly housing costs below what they had been paying for rent and make sure they had enough left over to cover all of their other expenses and then some. >> we tried to break it all up into a pie where we were at least saving a certain amount of money every month. >> reporter: their bank pre-approved them for a certain number, but consumer reports says that number can be

lenders look at how much they think you can pay them each month. >> that doesn't amoeba you can make those payments and still save for retirement, still save for college and still manage to go on vacation every year. >> reporter: deciding how much mortgage you can afford is personal. but consumer report experts say a good rule of thumb is to cap your housing costs at 25% of your take-home pay. this should afford you a little wiggle room to keep up with anything that breaks down. >> you need to have money in case the air conditioner breaks or you need to replace the roof. owning a home is very cost intensive so keeping your mortgage payments as low as possible will help you afford everything else that goes with it. >> reporter: in the end, he and his wife found a home they love for less than their approved loan, leaving them enough room in their budget to start saving for the next big thing. >> we really want to have enough right now for vacations, emergencies and eventually down the road, you know, having our first child. >> reporter: having trouble calculating a number you can live

with a financial planner or a third-party you trust could be a good move. and some more important advice, according to a recent bank rate report, 80% of current homeowners say their current mortgage payments make it difficult for them to save money and parents in particular have a hard time juggling their competing financial priorities, wendy. >> that's a lot of people. >> it is a lot. >> our neck of the woods is pretty expensive in this region. thank you, susan. >> sure. >> the school year opened with an enrollment surge. >> and now there is an effort to make sure all those students aren't learning in trailers in

hey, if you're a teacher, student, principal or parent, schools around our area are gettlefingeri getting crowded. montgomery has a plan. >> the capacity is doubling. >> tonight a future on the seneca valley high school in germantown. >> 2, 3. >> from the groundbreaking to the stands shaking, the screaming eagles living up to their name letting loose as they celebrate the coming of a new senior high school. even seniors who won't be around to see it. >> you want to experience the new school, but at the same time we all made memories at the

dating back to 1974, though still the pride of current students and alumni who turned out for the groundbreaking, it's clear to all a new seneca valley was long overdue. >> we've had issues with the building for a lot of years. i know that our community has wanted to have a new and vibrant and open learning community for our kids for many years. >> reporter: the new building will house some 2400 students, about double the current enrollment. and roughly 440,000 square feet, officials say it will be the largest public school in maryland once finished. and after it opens in 2020, this senior says there will be a reunion. >> we will come back and see, maybe help out and just see the new school pretty much. >> reporter: that is also student government says she'll be back here in a few years. all told this will be more than $130 million project and in the meantime students now play a very active role telling their principal,ir

other staff what seneca valley will need to bring up its school into 2020 with all the tools they will need to have the best school ever, they say. in germantown, i'm justin finch, news 4, back to you. >> now at 6:00, double trouble in the tropics. not one, but two hurricanes. one not far from our favorite summertime get aways. the other about to pound places already reeling from irma. >> now, the urgent rush to board up, hunker down, or get out. we're working for you. storm team 4 tracking where these storms are going and how they could impact our weather as early as tomorrow. >> tropical trouble threatening the caribbean again. >> that's right. we're tracking not one, but two hurricanes. first the panic in puerto rico as maria keeps growing stronger and stronger by the hour. >> maria was just upgraded to a massive category 4 storm. it's a devastating dose of deja vu as

virgin islands and puerto rico both still recovering from a hard hit from hurricane irma. members of virginia task force to search and rescue team will head to puerto rico. meantime today people on the island are boarding up and preparing for the worst. >> and hurricane jose is off the east coast, moving north, kicking up big waves along the way. this is what it looks like in virginia beach a little earlier today. creating rip currents off the shore. jose could impact our weather here at home tomorrow. >> storm team 4 steve kammerer has been tracking the path of bows these storms. doug, walk us through they are and where they might be going next. >> that's a very good question, doreen, where they're going next. we know where jose is going the next few days. right up toward the boston area. where it goes from there, all bets are off. it's going to meander towards the atlantic and that will have a big impact on where maria may go as it makes its way closer to the u.s. coast. here's where jose is currently. just off the coast line here up