♪ >> new 4 begins with storm team 4 weather alert. and we're tracking storms and hvy rain on storm team 4 radar. we get you started at 6:00. good evening, everybody. flash flood watches for o somef us right now. others cou just see a passing storm. let's go straight to meteorologist amelia draper with the latest. what's happening amelia? >> based on the latest, this is very concentrated. it looks like most of the area stays dry and where it is raining it's raining heavily and the rain isn'thaoving all fast. take a look at storm team 4 radar n.montmery or frederick county you know exactly what i'm talking b.poolsville through barnesville anwathrough the ersville area seeing very heavy rainfall and lots of lightning right now. you can seehis on ourer to cameras. somarra is manningameras and panning across the area you can see the bottom of the clouds ang the rain falff of our clouds and outside of our

studios in nor wwesthington looking north. this is what we're seeing. very heavy rainfall. potentially some thunderstorms and also the stronger thunderstorm up around the walkersville area. h these storme produced half an inch to an inch of rain, and this is what i'm concentrad on rightw, but a better chance that everybody's tomorrow sees some rain andhunderstorms. ll have more on that coming up. >> leon harris here in the newsroom with more news on scott pruitt resignation from the environmental protection agency. president was on air fce one wrote that scott pruitt has resigned and specifying within the agency pruitt did an outstanding job but the word embattled doesn't begin to describe prui's tenure at the epa. currently he's the subject of at least is a different investigations, mostly stemming from qstions about his spending on travel, security, even personalized tans and

leather bound journals. pruitt drew quite af bit fire for a sweetheart rental dea by lobbyist. reporters have been asking pruitt about patterns ofav exant spending but conservatives praised his disman ck of environmental regulations and president trump praised him. not clear what the tipping point was, and when we find outlee'll you know for sure. >> leon, thank you. >> at 2:33his afternoon here at news 4 and other journalist across the area observed a moment of silence. >> it was at o that moment week ago when we heard reports of an active shoer inside the "capital gazette" newsroom in anip list. outside the offices on bestgate road in annapolis a group of people gathered near white crosses, one for each of the five people killed. they held hands and praised the

almighty father >> we'll join our newsrooms now for a movement silence to honor the victims. >> five people killed in last week's attack, editorial pag editor gerald fischman, assistant editor rob hiaasen, sports writer john mcnamara, sales assistant rebecca smith and community correspondent ndi winters. >> news 4'sracee wilkins has been covering this sto for us from the beginning and she's live inin annapolis atonight. >> tracee? >> well, over the last week we've all bee having conversations about how could something like this happen? for peoplen this community they have been searching for healing, sharing their experienals andng to one another, and at some point words just aren't enough. >> i would like to ask everyone

to jn me in a moment of silence, prayer or reflection. >> reporter: when you've run out of words and out of tears, there's silee. >> our community has been in shock for the last orweek. >> repr: these anne arundel county employees are gathering together, together in honor of five lives senselessly taken away at the town newspaperdo ju the street a week ago. >> these were my friends, our colleagues. i think it's important for us to remember as asgroup, a county the losses and then embrace hope going forward. >> i want to share it with other people here that know about the tragedy. >> reporter: this moment and this moment is important for marjorie rock who happened to be on the secd floor of 888 bestgate when accused gunman jarrod ramos opened fire on the first floor and she shot video of ramos after hise arrest. whenlked to her the date

after the shootings, she was amazingly calm, strong. now one week later -- >> i had a nightmare i was being shot at and had to go under the so i thought it started to hit me kind of later. >> she's offerg prayers f your lawn and seeking some peace silence. >> i just want to be around my fellow workers and sre the grief with the victim's and honor them. >> reporter: there will be memorials for each of the victims in the coming days. in anne arundel county, tracy will kicks, news 4. >> a man pled g notlty to federal hate crimes charges thi morning. james fields jr. is accused of driving his car through

counterprotesters where heather haier was killed and fields remains in jail. his attorneys made no request for bail today. fields also f a murder trial in haier's death and that's for november. they are a tradition in the district, but they can be dangerous. we're talking about the illegal fireworks displace that can nd start beforend well after the big show down on the mall, but that wasn't the only iss last night. gunfire also led to some injues around the city. news 4's mark segraves is in columbia heights where broke up one display. mark? >> yeah, name, you know that wasn't gunfire associated with crimes, celebratory fire shot into the air and when the bullets came down they hit innocent victims. this is 13th street in columbia heights where for years neighbors have gathered for an illegal fireworks display. fireworks like this and you can see o of the spent charges that misfired and didn't go up

into the air and before fireworks show got started last night police and fire investigators got it shot down. fireworks displays like these went off into the early morni m hours andh of them sounding like gunfire. police say some of that celebratory noise last night actually was gunfire that injured innocent bystanders, including a 11-year-old girl. >> they decided that they wanted to celebrate the fourth of july by discharging a firearmn public space and injuring several people. what goes up must come down an that's the same with a bullet from a firearm. >> reporter: as for actual firewos, there were numerous illegal displays set off by residents across the city. this display on3th street northwest drew the attention of fire invesicgators and p who shut it down, threatening to arrest the man who has been organizing the display fors. year that upset many residents who

complained police and fire officials should allow these neighborhood displays to go on. >> w had89 fire-related incidents yesterday. he with eight people injured yesterday, aso, again, the reason that the code is there is ee not only you safe but also keep the neighborhood safe, and so, you know, illegal fires, all the thingso go along with it, so it's all fun and games until somebody got hurton >> in additio shutting down this display on 13th street, police were busy confiscating tens of thousands of illegal city,orks all across the fireworks that police handed over to the fire department today to be destroyed. >> now we can tell you that none it the people injuredr by fireworks or the gunfire were facing life-threatening injuries including that 11-year-old girl. there were also injuries reported in montgomery and the prince george's i countluding one man who had a bottle rocket go off in hnd face burned him badly. he was transp tted to hospital. fire officials in d.c. say they

another ng for yet night of illegal fireworks. they think it may go on throughout the weekeer. that's the latest. we're in northwest, back for yo >> dangers are real, mark, thank you. we're staying on top of the crisis at the border. tonight we can tell you the number of children separated largereir parents is than we first reported. we learned todayov thenment has custody of nearly 3,000 children, not 2,047 as health and human services secretary alex azar reported to the center. today's number includes children who iameo custody before president trump's zero tolerance affect.ent into azar suggested some children became separated from their pahents during journey to the border. he says hhs will use dna swabs to mat children to their parents in time to meet courorder deadlines for reunification. p until now hhs has only

reunified children with parents who are getting deported. now to great falls, montana. president trump isd expec speak at any minute at a campaign rally there. he won monta by20% in the 2016 election, and he hopes that popularity will pay off in the mid terms. jennifer johnson joins us now with new information on the supreme court searct just came out in the last few minutes. jennifer? >> reporter: president trump held an impromptu question and answeio se aboard air force one where he announced he'll make his supreme court pic by money as he repeatedly said and will announce it to the u.s. an the world at 9:00 p.m. >> reporter: president trump flying into red state montana to rally the base against democratic senator jon tester. nbc news has learned the president's search has narrowed toppeals court judges brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett and

raymond kethledge the president's top three picks are all conservatives and democrats are gearing up for a fight before even hearing the nominee's name. >> what the american people b nd concerned about is we're talking about changing the balance on the supreme court that's going to affect their. righ >> reporter: republicans point out that justice anthony kennedy was consided a conservative pick and turned into a pivotal swing vote. and l of this hedging hemming and hawing around what this person is going to do with "roe v. wade" when they get on the bench is just pure nonsen w. >> reportele the president headed to montana, his secretary of state headed to north korea for continued disarmament talks as the administration pubically plays down intelligence reports that kim jong-un is secretly panding his arsenal. >> this is another situation where the president is basically saying i've cloudy skies i've created the end of their new jersey program and actually nothing has happened. >> reporter: and on immigration today, just twoks after urging republicans to give up until after the mid terms, the president is doing an about fe demanding congress fix our insane immigration laws now

many but the next big battle on capitol hill will be over the president's nominee for the supreme court. as i said, the president isg goo make an announcement 9:00 p.m. monday. he would likece that jus seated before the court gets back to work in early october. live on capitol hill,nn i'm ifer johnson. doreen and jim, bk to you. >> thank, jennifer. coming up new at 6:00 tonight, immigration protests in virginia. the group calling for an end to immigration and customs enforcement. >> ghus, car theftt on video. the driver gets away with the gas pump still attached. how to protectourself from

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a judgen montgomery county sentencing a female gang member to 959 years in prison today. the judge called her a scary human being. show's linked to a string of armed robberies, and police say she confessed to helping set up gang-related murders in her homn y of el salvador. news 4's darcy spencer is e outshe courthouse in rockville now with more on this darcy? >> reporter: well, doreen, as you know, we cover a lot of court here at cnnel 4, a lot of sentencings, but i can't remember the lt timeomeone got 95 years in prison. murder, not involve a but the judge said this is a very dangerous young woman, and she deserves to be put behind bars for a long time.

during an interview about a string of armed rberies in montgomery count de, a young game member made a shocking confession. she had helped set up two murders in her home e count safely door. one of the victims was a police officer, and she was working op s for a third killing to improve her status with ms-13. >> she wanted to get apr otion, and so that third pl was underway supposedly. >> reporter: 20-year-old josselin ramirez pled guilty to three counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and three counts of participating in a criminal gang, crimes show committed here in the u.s today a judge sentenced her to the maximum 95 years in prison for what he called absolutely ruthless crime. state sentencing guidelines called for a sentence of 9 to 24 years. she had no prior criminal record. josselin ramirezckased out c cashing stores and other businesses in a well organized and heavi armedang of men

would woman them. she was not president during the holdium. at one heist in an exxon station in wheat on-the-suspectsalked away with 120 grand in cash. the last robbery only netted a couple hundred dolla and led to the arrest several people including ramirez. one of the suspects wasde acally run over by a police officer following a pursuit on the beltway. >> this is a crimet t really shocked the consciousness of the communory. >> her ay says she fell into the gang life after leaving el salvador. you casee she's seeing a gang sign in her waistband and giving the lengthy sentence theudge scribed her as a scary human being, someone who needs to be in jail so she doesn't hurt anyone else. >> the two crimes that shere confessed to considered nonviolent crimes here in the state of maryland, and because ofld that she c try to get out on parole after serving 25% her sentence.

i'm told this could lead to people tryingng to cha maryland law. jim, back to you. >> darcy, thank you. developing this evening, protesters calling for theio abol of the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency, i.c.ee outsf an office in fairfax unty. albert bimiena from our sister station telemundo 44 was there for every second of the demonstration. >> reporter: this afternoon about 60 people gathered here outside i.hee., and t didn't let the heat interfere with their protests. the protesters say that i.c.e. has been separating here in the country and that the agency has spread fear in immigrant comaynities. theyhe goal of this protest was also to stop what they called, quote, the deportation pipeline that targets people around the. nation we spoke to one of the organizers ahort time ago. let's listen. >> it's to bri awareness to the deportationon and immigra crisis that is goes through

virginia, calling for the abolition of i.c.e. and in order to end the separation of families we haveo cut funding to i.c.e. >> reporter: calls to abolish i.c.e. has p grown in thet weeks and several democratic lawmakers support elimiting the agency that's part of homeland security and president trump says this will increase crime in the nation. one of i.c.e.'s responsibility is to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants in the u.s. protesters say ts won't be the last time that they will come to i.c.e. to demand that this agency is abolished. in far fakes, alberto bimienta, news 4. >> that fourth of july protester who scaled the stue of liberty yesterday is out of jail tonight. theresa okoumou pleaded not guilty to trespassing and disorderly conduct today. she says her cli was spontaneous and that she was protesting the saration of immigrant children from parents at the u.s.-mexico border. the national park service had to evacuate the statue yesterday

while police got her down. they are now reviewing security to see how she was able o get up there so easily. >> some sketchy weather out there for u some of right now. amelia is back to see who is affected and when we'll get relief from this heat. >> we get relief from the heat and humidity right now and that's the good o news. so us are dealing with thunderstorm activity in parts of loudon but especially loudon and montgomery counties. take a look at the camera i lookino montgomery county. you can see the rain falling out of thoselo clouds. thes had the flat look on the bottom and then you can see the rain showers coming down and some heavy rain within these cells. nothing severe thoughulthan on storm team 4 radar. in fact, i'm seeing the lightning falling out of the storms. one indicator that they are showing signs of weakening. right now though still tracking heavy rain around the poolsville area, slowlyeandering towards the east towards gaithersburg and 270 and up around germantown looking at the nbc washington app on my phone, i'm selling

thevelop down towards sterling as well as loudon county. right now i'm showing you the rain up on parts frederick county and around walkersville and down around the mt. airy region. not a lot ofng lighthere right now, and as i show big picture, that's it. rain over the mountains continues to fizzle as it to push over i-81 and over the blue ridge. right now we' at 90 degrees and will have scattered thunderstorms out there until 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. for the most part north of washing tomorrow. by 9:00 mostly cloudy and maiany dr 84. 11:00 p.m., still muggy. any rain we get tonight will be a brief relief from the humidity. it's going to build rightinack nd it's humid out there tomorrow. feeling like 85 with temperatures around 80 degrees. not as bad a it h been but not picture perfect. 7:00 a.m. and we're at 77 degrees and mostly cloudy skies to start off the day. one of the days as it wears on

we'll start to seeunshine develop and that helps to fuel our shower and thunderstormce ch at noon we're tracking scattered showers especially north and west of washington, a temperature around 86. but 3:00 p.m. scattered thunderstorms moving through thg area incluhe d.c. metro region and 82 degrees and by 7:00 p.m. we're getting in on late day sunshine and low humidity levels and 80 degrees i tomorrowthe perfect night to fire up the barbecue. eat outdoors and take the kid to the playground. it's looking really nice on your friday night.rd sa and sunday are also looking spectacular. i would say perfect 10s, especially compared to the weather we've been dealing w.83 on saturday and breezy and low humidity. low 80s a on sunday plenty of sunshine and 80s on monday, but by next tuesday the 90s return. doreen and jim. >> allight, amelia, thank you. opportunity. of why the time could be now to rescue those children stranded in that cave in thailand, and a closer look at just what that is

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no opening. that's what rescuers are saying is the option for dozens of teenage boys and a soccer coach. >> with more rain on the way the diving teams are weighing the risk of a quick and dangerous rescue attempt. here's nbc's bill neely. >> millions of gallons of rainwate are being pumped out of that complex every day and the governor, the commander of this operation, says the waters are now receding fast. he says three chambers next to the boys' cave is now completely drive and he's asked a diver and a doctor whether a 90% guarantee of safety and a 10% risk is a risk wor taking. the rescuers are clearly tempted now to attempt a fast rescue, and the reason for that is that

there isea wer window. we've had three days here of little or no rain.oo mo rains are forecast for the weekend. the rains run the risk of flooding the whole cave complex once again so there is a window in which the boys could be rescued, but the probl is many of them are very weak and there is a question of which ones you take out first. they will not be all taken out together, s the optio are still being discussed here. the boys half a mile below me here trying to be brave ando desperate t get out. bill neely, nbc news, thailand. >> suc a tense situation over there. let's take another quick look at thatap again. it gives you an idea of the daunting odds ahea the safest option drilling a shaft half had a mile down into the cave near the boys' location and ouperwise the g will have to wade or float more than

two and a half miles to the cave's entrance and that takes professional divers six hours to make the same trip. >> have the best minds and rescuers working on othis. >> but really good options. >> no easy way out, that's f sure. >> let's hope you beat the monsoons. >> well, when we come up at 6:30, folks. amelia is back with more monour storm chances for tonight and the rain that will finally bring us some relief to the heat tomorrow. >> montgomery county is counting provisional baslots cast in week's primary. ahead, when we might know the winner of the too close to call democratic primary for montgomery county executives. a he served our country in iraq. now this war veteran is singing his way on to a new ste.

and welcome back. on theast dave our heat wave everybody is dealing with the 100iness and dealing with degrees outside right nude and some of us are dealing with pretty impressive thunderstorms. no severe thunderstorms thankfully and heavy that could lead to hydroplaning issues on area roads. can you seeround sterling and up towards poolsville and gaithersburg and germantown and clarksburg also capturing this beautiful vantage point from ooking west and

just off the edge of those thunderstorms. we'll have scattered rms until about 8:00 tonight and then the chance for some scatter thunderstorms. more on that>> coming up. amelia, thank you. >> strangers compelled to help and stepping up big time. >> tonight an online fund-raiser for the family of a murder gasi stclerk has reached nearly $30,000. this as we'rein lea new details about the the murder. n >> reporter: david culver reports tonight from herndon. >> reporter: >> fur first look at the man accused of a disturbing crime. mohammedbdullahi attacked and killedesham bajgain. tonight flowers are placed onur the cb by strangers. lorraine hanco among them. >> very sad for the family and our area. >> reporter: a similar sadness

shared by these three friends. they did not know resham bajgain personally but as they learned about his life's journey working two jobs to provide for his wife and little girls regular customers are remembering him as a warm welcoming clerk. >> you've been in there enoug a times whe person is nice enough to you, i don't know, really sad. >> i come in here every morning before on my way to work or something. it was always like hey, how are you doing? you again. >> honestly hurts my heart that you kind of end up getting a friendship. >>arly wednesday morning abdullahi murdered the 40-year-old. they got reports of a robbery and found the suspects i a nearby shopping center and he lay lifeless in the oor. >> even though we didn't know him and it was a nice person it was real sad. >> reporter: within hours of posting a gofundme to support bajgain's family the community's genesity becoming apparent.

by late thursday more than 500 people had rsed nearly 500,000, and as you can see behind me tonighthe gas station is back open. as for the suspect abdullahi he's currently being held at the adult facility dention center charged with second-degree murder and is expected back in court in august. reporting in herndon, virginia, david culver, new4. >> maryland man sentenced to life for murdering his fiancee dead.born child is now montgomery said nkusu killed himself in a jail cell and he stabbed maria mbunga two years ago inside her apartment. she was five months pregnant at time. nkusu was just sentenced on monday. the all clear has been given toohns hopkins hospital in baltimore after some scary moments today. irefighters evacuated two buildings after some employees were possibly exposed to

tuberculosis. in a statement hopkins says the emplees who were in that area were isolated and evaluated. they do not believe anyone else was exposed. cou beore than a week before we learn who won that closely contested docratic primary for montgomery county,tive. right now councilember mark elrich is leading businessman david blair by a razor thin margin. fewer than 200 votes. the fate of the race hangs with thousands ofrosional ballots. news 4's chris gordon is there as election officials started this tedious countg process. the montgomery county board of canvassers is counting more than 3,200 provisional ballots cast by unregistered voters in last tuesday's primary. >> i'm estimating that we'll be working over part or all of the weekend to get this all. do >> reporter: just before last tuesday's maryland primary, the mda revealed it failed to send

registration information to the board of elections for thousands of drivers who thought theyere registering when they changed information on their licenses. state lawmakers want to hold hearings to determine how this mistake was made. >> we have a lot of races that care still toose to count and every vote council. >> reporter: the two are still neck and neck more than a week after the democratic primary for montgomery county executive. since the primary, council member nancy florine has signalled her intent to run for county executive as an independent. florine has to give up her council seat because of term limits. the republica candidate for county executive robinicker sponsors term limits. >> my term limits proposal received positive support from 50% of the democrats. >> reporter: the board canvassers have to count more

than 3,700te ae ballots so we will iremainn suspense until the final vote is tabulated and certified july 16th. reporting from the board of nelections, chris gordon,ews 4. >> coming up, new details about the victim of a covert carjacking. cameras catch the they have trking until exactly right moment. >> plus, what's so special about today that has people speculating about amazon's pick for hq2. >> and how a soldier's lovef opera led him to discover a very special gift next.

the singing soldier. that's what many people are calling a local iraq war vetan turned ope performance. jesus hernandez loved listening to operahen he was young. >> and now he's chasing his dream of becoming an

internationa star. amy cho caught up with the alexandria native today. ♪ >> reporter: with a voice like this it's hard to believe jesus hernandez ever doubted he had what it took. but years ago before he ever stepped foot on the stage he was in iraq,ever taking a lesson in his life. he listened to opera growing up. >> i just had the ear for it, and i just wanted to create the sounds that they were making. >> reporter: while in iraq hernande would perform for his fellow soldiers. one day he met the opera star placido domingo who saw in hernandez a star in the makined and offo pay for his lessons. >> a commander said it would be reallyd if you don't take this opportunity. ♪ o reporter: fast forward today hernandez now pursuing music full time. he'll soon headur toe to audition at the world's best

opera houses. >>f you're to audition or perform you are always nervous and have that lrftle but in your stomach but at the same time it's excitement. ♪ >> reporter: andhough thi singing soldieras left his days on the battlefield behind him, he'll always carry theon le he learned. >> it's one of the most gratifying experience i've ever ad in my life to know that i did something that is beyond me and something that was bigger than me. ♪ >> reporter: in bethesda, aimee cho, >> my goodness. 24 years ago today a guy named jeff bezos founded a then small company and called it amazon. some people speculate that the billionaire might celebrate the company'irthday today with a new location of the second headquarters. three of the finalists aremo gomery county, northern virginia and d.c. no announcement today, but the

cities competing are still trying to readea the teas and do everything they can tot attrac the retail giant. he competition spurred a race to improve infrastructure in some cities, including dedicated funding for metere in the dmv. amazon has promised an announce ent by the of the year. well, when we come back, poisoned in the uk. two people seriously ill and now new questions and somewe a about possible connections to russia. >> the late onon the investiga coming up. amelia? >> and doreen right now on storm team 4 radar'm tracking rain and thunderstorms impacting parts of loudon, montgomer and frederick counties. more rain in the forecast tomorrow. i'll have the latest timing in my forecast.

'shee som will have y lock your car the next time you pump gas. two crooks drive up in that red car and one gets out a saks into the black mercedes and takes off while the gas is still beinggh pumped. to news 4 owes shomari stone is learning new details about the victim of that crime. >> reporter: good evening. we've learned that the woman who was filling up her tank like i am right now is council chairman phil mendelssohn's girlfriend. whilep she's filling u suddenly a red lexus drives up here to the gas station and let show you video of what happens next.ve this clear slance video is from the 1200 block of pennsylvania avenue stheast. around 7:00 in the morning, july 4th, a man gets out of the red lexusssed in dark pants, a white shirt and gym shoes. he gets down hiding by the driver's side door.

whil council chairman mendelssohn's girlfriend is getting gas at the pump he climbs insare the police say she left her purse with the car keys inside it. he pushes the start button and drives off with the gas hose still inside the gas tank. back out he on 1200 block of pennsylvania avenue southeast police yoremind t always take your car keys and lock your door when you get out of your car. keep valuables out of plain view and be aware ofour surroundings and also don't let your phone distract you. shomari stop, news 4. tonight british investigators are searching for answers about how two people were poisoned with the same nerve agent used to attack a fonder russian spy his daughter. british officials blamed russia for the first attack and are blaming them for the second. here's kelly cobiella. >> reporter: it's happened again in this quing corner of end, two people criti ally ill

this hospital after being exposed to a deadly nerve agent. the nerve agent novichok, the same substance that made the former russian spy and his daughter so seriously ill back in march requiring weeks of treatment. the questions now, why were they exposed? were they targeted and is there a risk to the publiceow? thre questions we'll try to get from investigators and we'll have the very latest for you on "nightly news" coming up. back to you. the doors are opened again at t red help restaurant in lexington, virginia, that shut down t nearly weeks ago after the owner asked white house press sarretary huckabee to leave. ffe owner says some of her employees areded by the president's policies and huckabee defends them. the president's supporters swarmed the restaurant in person and online, but owner attracted equally passionate support. the red hen pened at 5

tonight, and it is fully booked. >> amelia is backor with about the stormy weather that's going to bring better things for us. >> yeah. a cold front moves in tomorrow bringing us showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. it's gorgeous though b tomorrow night and then a spectacular saturday. >> loving it. >> i cannot wait. a nice breeze out there saturday as well. right now i'm trackin some thunderstorms, and some scattered thunderstorms impacting parts of loudon, the northern most parts of fairfax condty up through montgomery frederick and carroll counties. you can see rumbles of thunder show up on storm team 4 rada these storms m towards the northeast at is a miles per hour so they are moving pretty slowly and tracking thundstorms in frederick north of the city and up to around the fairmont area. a smoothil right u you hit the frederick area. this is that broken line of

thunderstorms. again, very slowly pushing north and east and only 15 miles per hour. might just nick the top of the beltwa and maybe the most northern parts ofashington and areas south and west look to stay dry. areas back to the west as well. overnight tonightan't rule out a few scattered showers and here's y.taking you out a little bit further on storm team 4 radar. notice the thunderstorms back in west virginia. a lot of activity fizzlesut and can still hold together to bring showers overnit until ve early tomorrow morning. you might be waking up to wet redewalks, that sort of a thing and thunderstormsot going to wake you up overnight tonight. so the scattered thunderstorms right now as we look through tomorrow, well, rain and thunderstorms are in the forecast. it's not going to be a workout. we have dry time as well with mostlyie cloudy and humid conditions. we don't hit 92 degrees tomorrow. just in the 80snd just closed out our seven-day heat wave. gorgeous weather in the forecast onndaturday and , but

right now it's feeling about 10f degree most of us. 98 in washington and 100 in annapoli and 101 in manassas is the current heat index. we start off at 77 on your frid. but lunchtime we're at 86 degrees. showers and scatteredthowers here mainly in the and west of town. scattered thunderstorms aroftd for thenoon hours as we head oute and l day snipe and hopefully a gorgeous sunset and temperature around 80 degrees. we hit our high of 86 tomorrow around none and then we'll see temperatures slowly fall throughout the afternoon hours.a on saturday high temperature of 83.it breezy. plenty of sunshine and sunday mid-80s. suy skies and really nice. low humidity levels still on monday hand highsern the u 80s. however, the humidity does start to build back into the area on tuesday and wednesday with highs in the low 90s. by next thursday it's looking

hot with high temperares in jiemid-90s. doreen and m. >> thanks, amelia. coming up, the national slide continues. what their manager thinks of the players only meeting shere sherree is up next.te first now with what's ahead on "nightly news." why the epa administrator leaves now, the scandals and who leaves now, the scandals and who his

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♪ ♪ >> all right. they are playing the marlins. let's hope that closed door meeting did some good. >> this will be the first chance to really seeow the team responds, because when you have max scherzer who is a pretty eaintense guyng these meetings telling you need to pick it up, if that doesn't get you going i don't know what else could. there could be some relief in sight forhe nationalsrom a season that just seems to be control. out of

tonight the first of 11 games against teams also with losing records. of the nats hoping to turn things off after losing 17 of 22 games, the worst since 2009. they were shut out eight times this june. last year, they were shut out seven teams all season. >> whoa. >> and at 42-43, this is the latest in the season they have been under .500 since 2015. a players only meeting after their fifth strait loss hoping to turn things around, and their manager is supportive. i like it. i've been in a lot of those players meetings and everybody up. a chance to speak it shows a sense of accou accountability and people take ownership and it's a good thing. i don't know what was said in that meeting nor do i want to know. they know whatla we'reng for and that's the gist of the meeting. they just want to make sure that f all stay together and we're

in this the long haul. >> the game tonight starting at 7:05. prince george's county francis tiafo continues to impress showingff his skills today at imbon. he's in the far court taking on julian bentio, the prince george's c wnty nativ comes up with the nice runchl the 20-year-old continuing to tn head across the pond and in the finals he said his returning save and benneteau sends it back to him and it's sent down the line and tiafo returns to the third round of a grand slam for the first time in his career and wins in four sets. he then rocked the capitals stanley cup championship hate. th liz clark covering kim bon for "the washingwen post." sheed this photo writing that tiafo says he's just chasing the dream just like the capitals did and rafal nadal

cruising into the third run. nadal in theco far t. watch this. nadal leaps over kukunshin's shot. nice vision to know that that was indeed now in the third set nadal having some fun here in the far court sending a strong forehand back in kukunshin and jumps in the air to celebrate and nadal moves on in straight sets. >> now, if you're an mm fan or looking to find something knew to get intthe summer, we've got a little something for you. the psl professional fighter's sleeping a new mma style league. tonight the fight is right here in d.c. at the smith catch all the action at 9:00 p.m. mma legend randy couture is now a broadcaster for the pfl and stopped by our studios to talk about the exciting new lead. >> 12 fighters in each weight

class, 72 fighters and they are competing in a regular season. they will get points. ee points will set rankings for the topht to go into the postseason and all to get a chance to fight for $1 million and the world champion for 2018. >> the headquarters of the pfl here in virginia. >> how have you seen the talenn here weese? do we have talent for mma? t starting to put out a lot greateralent in really every sport but certainly in mixed martial arts as well and the pfl is one of the premiere tions for farming out that talent and finding the diamonds in the rough. >> certainly those local tides continuing and is tha a thing? might need to get you out there. >> sounds like a free for all out ther >> really succeeding. >> give me ten seconds in there and i'd be out. >> check it out tonight at 9:00. you never know. it could be for you. >> walk on over there. >> all right. good stuff. >> thank you. >> thank you, sherree. >> "nightly news" starts in just

60 seconds. >> hope to see"n you on s 4 at 11:00." have a good evening.

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