>> are you serious. >> great influences, great role models f us. they really teach teenagers that you can become whatever you put your mind to with good training andrk hard . >> finish strong. >> in a cington, aim, news 4. russian president vladimir putinay be visiting washington, d.c. this fall as our country gears up for mid-term elections. the timing is notable. >> this invitation comes in a week in which t president has reversed himself and deflected uestions on russia's electio interference here. >> and news of the invitation arrived in the form of a tweet, not from the president, but from ecretary. house press nbc's susan mcginnis joins us with the breaking rvelopments. orter: yeah, no telling if this new meeting would be anothehind closed door session. hope to find out more about that. the president spent the day from tweets to interviews again trying to clarify his position

on election interference. today, president trump reiterated his desire to make russia a friend of the u.s. inviting vladimir putin to washington for summit this fall, but in an interview with cnbc also talking tough. >> getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being fsaid, that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. >> reporter: in an with cbs, he claims he called vladimir putin out for election interference during their private meeting in helsinki. >> i h let know we can't have this. we're not going to have it, and that's the way it's goi to be. >> reporter: but with no record confirming that, critics point to tpresident's words while standing next to the russian leader. >> president putin was extremely strong ander pl in his denial. >> reporter: trump's national security h team no doubt russia targeted america and continues to. >> we need to call tm out on that. te's critical that we do so and

then take to make sure that they are not able to do this with the electio coming up. >> reporter: meanwhile, present trump is retreating on putin's request to interrogate americans russia suspects of crimes,ha including m mcfaul, former ambassador to moscow. >> i'm sorry, i'm an amerin and i under attack by vladimir putin right now, so i hope they will stand up. the president backed down amid condemnation from both sides. the senate passed a resolution urging the president to protect american officials from questioning by foreign governments. e bill workingts way through congress right now would impose thations on any country would engage in election interference in the u.s. leon in. >> thank you, susan. new reaction from people who say they kne an alleged russian operative maria butina who was work arrested over the wkend. working with government officials and even trying to trade sex fortw influence. local women say it's onlyy

now the see the red flags, signs that something strange was going on. >> it's like out of a movie. >> sarah chicago a grad student at au and recently had a class with bariautina before she graduated and said they had a lot of small talk but one thing was clear. >> she was very pro russia and pro putin and proun, but that to me didn't necessarily mean that s a was russian agent. >> reporter: hicks said bounta wasve pleasant and lent her a scarf when she was called. according tolicks the t redhead was inquizity and other classmates questioned whether or not something fishy is going on. >> i think that like maria could be a russian agent. i just have a feelinghat she is. and we kind of were all lyrics okay, be nice. don't say that about her,e and h was like no, no, she just like asked me very specific questions. >> maria butinaas arrested here at her home in mcclain gardens in northwest d.c. sunday night. one of her neighbors spoke to

news 4 and tells us she's absolutely shocked about this whe thing a says something that happened a couple of months ago seemed to set off alarms. >> there were peopleoutside. >> reporter: this woman says butina was her neighbor. i never now the this, no. it never entered my mind. >> she took us down the hall where shersays their doo were right across fro one another. she said she didn't have a lot of interaction but does remember this one thing from couple months ago. >> i thought maybe it was drawings or an immigration issue or something. >> reporter: there was a swarm of fbi agents standing in the hall. >> i hea like a banging. the man said please, miss, stay inside. so i did and -- and then i heard the -- they continued to bang really loudly and said maria, we know you're in there. come out. >> reporter: mara butina faces charges of angsting as an unregistered foreign agent in

the united states. her lawyer says she's done nothing wrong. erika gonzalez, news 4. ep alican campaign staffer says a friend caught a "new york times" reporter breaking io the staffer's woodbridge apartment. the newspapers says the reporter never entered thebr home. n landrum works for candidate cor stewart and left his apartment unlocked on wednesday and in the afternoon his friend came face-to-face with an intrer. >> i h absolutely no heads up that she even had any interest in speaking with me until she decided to break into my apartment. >> the "neyork times" gave a statement saying the reporter left this note askingmr mr. landrum to call her. >> a response in the next half hour to theci nt. a man threatened to shoot doctors at a local hospital. police moved in putting the hospital on lockdown.

now we know why threats came in initially as reports of an active shooter. mark segraves is thereo explain. mark? >> reporter: well, as you said, it turned out just to be arb threat, but two calls came into the 911 call centhr morning just after 10:00. both of them from security officialsere at washington hospital center, and boast those calls saying this was an active shooter on the washington hospital center campus inside the cancer center. that's what l to the massive police response and these buildings going on lodown. police stoppeded in full force. the call to 911 came in shortly after 10:00 this morning. the initial disfach calls to firs responders indicated an active shooter as the cancer police shut down roads in and around the washington hospital center campus. while police, some officers ard with long guns, searched the hospital inside and outside. the u.s. park police helicopter was brought in to search the

roof tops. as the search continued, the campus was put nolockdown. first, one building and then three more bldings locked down. tithin minutes, police determined the siton was actually a verbal threat and not an actual active shooter. a spokesperson for news 4 says in an e-mail an aider eg our center made verbal threats. no weapon was seen and no injuries occurred. while today turned out to only a threat and not an active shooter security expert tells news 4 hospitals in particular have reason to be on high alert. >> hospitals are a hoy-risk environment for healthcare employees just for impulsive violence, for threatening behavior for something that might turn into a mass shooting. theyeave concern from all th different angles. >> now a spokesperso from the

hospital center sent mow an e-mail saying the safety of their patients is their number oneriority and they are required to call 911 any time ey get a threat. they did not address the question as to whyint was called s an active shooter and not just a threat of anybody's life. doreen, back to you in the studio. >> thank you, mark. today they are putting out a public service announcement warning the publi about an overdose of k2. all of last july there were 105 overdose calls for the entire month. the d.c. medical examiner discovered yesterday and there's a new type of k-3 or marijuana on the streets. >> we don't know really what it

isyet, and -- and we are desyngs xwounded by what has never seen before? >> the fire chief says these overdoses are happening across thedistrict, not just in a single neighborhood. >> had a local dive coach slated o teach team usa at the world junior diving championships next week has in fact been suspended. the news 4 i-team has beenin di and here's a look now hat what wendy has been unable to uncover. >> t local coach stephanie sutton was suspended last thursday along with another coach johnappleman who was slated to be the head coach for team usa. stephanie sutton is the owner and head coach of dominion dive club in fairfax county. the club's website says she's i her tenth year there and calls the club a national sepowerh they have several athletes who

have competed on the world stage. usa diving has not said why the two coaches were suspended. sutton's attorney told the news 4 i-team that his client has no idea why she was suspended and that she will be appealing this decision. we did reach out to appleman and so far have not heard back. >> all right, wendy, thank you. metro has reached a settlement with the family of a woman who was killed after smoke started to fill the l'enfant plaza back in01 2 61-year-old car glover died inside a train trapped in the tunnel. metro confirmed a settlement was reach with glover owes family will. the amount unknown, but the family's lawsuit asked for $50 dollar in damage. >> a scare at the height of the morning rush in new york city. the linger health care after this dramatic explosion. >> a local mother desperate for answers after gunmen opened fe a crowd and killed her r-

10-yold girl. tonight police still hunting for the killers. he plugs, major bank giving millions of dollars of refunds to customers. could you be one o them? first, here's doug. >> another niceom dayrow before things start to go downhill and go downhill fast. not going t look like this very much longer. much longer. we'll

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climbed the life of of a 10-year-old girl outside a d.c. apartment comsex. three d later police have recovered the bullets usedy the masked gunman and tonight the young victim's family is praying for justice. >> reporter: this memorial outside of 10-year-old makiyah wilson's home continues to grow larger ever since she was murdered three days ago. flowers, pictures and warm thoughts mark thet where this innocent little girl was killed. she was a fifthr gra who loved sports and had just returned home from swimmingda on m night. her mother says she was on her way to get a treat from the ice cream man. >> id cream truck pulp and wanted to go to the ice cream truck. she died with the $5 in her hand. >> reporter: before makiyah could make it, these gunmen

drove into thnd courtyard opened fire this. video was released on tuesday, m and by wednesdning police recovered the getaway car in prince george's county. >> she's a baby. she's 10 years old. i don't wish this on no mother. >> reporter: it's been three days since she lost her baby girl, and every day she's hopeful that makiyah gets the justice she deserves. >> reporter: no arrests have been made, but police are receiving a lot of tips from the community. 12-year-old makiyah wilson will be laid toest on wednesday. now to a tragedy outside a post office. this morning a driver hit and killed a person wking outside. as you see here investigators with walking around thatre a the driver did stay there on the scene. the victim has not yet been identified. an underground pipe exploded during rush hour in new york city today shooting steam through the street and up into

the sky. several blocksed of the fam fifth avenuere in shut down. as nbc chris pollone shows us now, health leaders have one big concern. >> it could be seen across manhattan and looks like billowing smoke, but it was actually steam shooting hundreds of feet in the areaounded almost like a jet engine. dave matthews saw it from his office around 6:40 thursday morning. >> i looked out the window and saw a 300-foot column of steamn rinto the air out of a giant hole in the middle of fifth avenue with chunks of concrete kind of spread across the street. >> reporter: an underground pipe burst in the city's flat iron district sending steam used to heat and cool bui national manhattan on fifth avenue into the air. five peopl were treated ford minor scrapes and cuts. >> all i saw was a tunnel of smoke and didn't know what was going on. i had flashbacks from september 11th. >> relax, relax, relax. >> reporter: repair could take

days and traffic is snarled and subway and buses are disrupt. because the pipe was so old and laid 86 yearsgo health officials felt the explosion sent dangerous asbestos into the air. tests later confirmed its presence on the ground-of-ground but air. came back cle >> it will be a thorough assessment to make sure all the buildings are clean and fe. >> reporter: people in the area are being told to shower and bag their clothes, and workers at the blast seen have to wear protective suits and be decontaminated before leaving the area. chris pollone, a warning for swimmers to beware of sharks after two separate attowks in beach in new york. both happened yesterdaynly a few miles apart onire island. a 13-year-old boy was bitten on the leg. he was treated by paramedics. they fnd a shark tooth in hisle in that wound. and a 12-year-old girl named lola was standing in waist-deep water when a shark bit her on

the leg. her parent talked with nbc's kerry sanders. >> well, really i saw the puncture wounds before i saw the blood. >> i could have lost a leg but i didn't so that's good. >> reporter: will the paulina family go back int water? >> yes. >> not me. >> me and lola will. lola can laugh about it. good for her. soon after those attacks fishermen and people on the t beach caugh sharks hand brought them ashore, but the sharks have notxactly been linked to these attacks so fire island officials are warning everyone you can go out in the water and be a rt when you'r out there. >> crews rescued 50 to 60 cats from a hoarding situation in north potomac. animal rescue and the firepa ment removed several cats from then t home yesterday. officials discovered water and electrical problemse in house. haz-mat units went into the home with full gear, and there they discovered moref cats. somehem were in the walls. ffmontgomery countyicials are now talking wit the homeowner.

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boy, this has been a summer of streaks. we've had streaks of nothing but rain and then we've had streaks of nothing but hot. >> scorching heat. >> humidity, nothing but dry, andtrow the shortk of nice stuff here and another streak coming rt. >> too s this, streak. >> yeah, it is. only two or three days of low humidity and nic warm temperature. most of the days in july have been on the hot side well above 90 degrees. each 98 on monday. 92 on tuesday. last few ys, nice. today, beautiful. lots of sunshine out there and emperature-wise sitting at 8 degrees with winds out of south at 8 miles per hour. with low humidity. it really is just spectacular. look at the numbers here 84. frederick 82 and 86 in fred wicksburg and huntingtown coming in at 83 and friends down in laplata, 84 degrees down there for you. radar picture no, rain for you. i want to show you what's happening back to the west. nothing around the icmid-atla

gorgeous not just in our area all the way down towards maine and the raleigh are and outer banks today, a great beach day. not so over the next several days. look athis swin and all the storms developing into parts of iowa. a lot of tornadoes have been seen in indiana, including some -- we're waiting to get pictures from that. this storm system will stay west. norm lit storm system will move across our gion, and we might be talking about thunderstorms here on sunday and monday from that storm. that won't be the case though. we've got an area of high pressure off the coast that will cope that area low pressure to the west, and in between the flow around the low and around thenigh will bring a lot of moisture over the next couple of days, and it will allow a lot of the moisture to come right into that area. heard me talk about the moisture train. that's exactly what wre seeing and all of this moisture coming from the atlantic and gulf of

mexico and feeding across our area day after day, yes. this i going to be one streak of very wet weather here, not just that and tropical-like system coming through with verm conditions. that's the way it will feel outside. not tomorrow. 88 still and still on the warm side. if you have dinner plans, no problem. actually a beautiful friday night to get out there for that date night if you've got saturday, a little bit different. 50% chance of rain and not t expectin much in the way of rain and saturday once again showers in th afternoon and look at the numbers, 82 down to 80 and most areas in the 70s on yourday and 83 on sunday and 85 on monday and then look what we've got here all the way through next you talk about a streak, yeah. this is a streak. seven t eightays of rain and not all day rain. this is mmer-type system. see a shower or two in the morning and a better chance of storms in the afternoon and locally heavy rain could be possible.

that's something where we'll be tracking again. i'll have much more on thisst forend i'll take you day by day and also talk about that beach forecast. that's coming up at 6:45. >> there's that noise again he onkes. >> i d't like the looks of th next streak either. thank you, doug. two women killed on the train trackd. in maryl up next, the warning that came moments before the tragedy. a note left for a republican campaign staffer. it waseft by a reporter, he says, but it's how the note got into his apartment that has him wanting the cops to investigate. that story just ahead right here on news 4. and starbucks making history and starbucks making history with a fst

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tonight we're learning more about the women struck and killed by a csx train in montgomery county last nightud ing the moments leading up to their deaths. >> this happened in germantown off wearing station road and peach crest dry. news 4's chris gord op spoke with a friendf one of the victim chris? >> well, leanne and doreen, in the past two hours h wee seen seven marked trains and two csx trains rollast u on these tracks. when you consider the frequency and the force of these trains you wonder why anyone would walk along the tracks, and yet i am

told it is not uncommon. tat a look how fast and loud csx trains travel through this area of germanwn. they can be heard at least seconds before they arrive.po ce are conducting a death investigation into the accident that killed two women who were walk along these tracksye erday evening. >> and i'm just saying what have you been doing tre? can't figure it out. i don't know. i don't understand. >> this woman lost a friend. 25-year-old dedna peralta d when she was hit by the csx train yesterday evening alongra the ts near her germantown home. her companion, 30-year-old christina of gaithersburg was also killed in the accident. neighbors in the apartment mplex adjacent to the tracks were alerted to the deadly accident by a young girl. >> she was about 16 years old, a

young girl and she was running coming from the tracks saying that somebody had gotten hit. >> another neighbor here says it's not unusual for people to walk along those tracks. >> me personally, i personall takealks down there. after this happens i probably won't be doing that anymore, but other than that it was just a crazy accident scene that just happened. >> montgomery fire rescue personnel tried their best the savewomen, but both died on the scene. that's when police took over th. investigat >> the train operator did see the females in the area of the tracks. he did sound the train horn, and he d apply its brakes. >> but to y showou how quickly things retned to normal. less than an hour ago i saw a woman walking in this track bed. walking her dog. back to you. >> oh, my. all right. thank you, chris gordon

reporting. >> the news 4 i-team did some digging and found p 130ple have been injured or killed trespassing on railroads in our area over the lhree years. the iphone looked at data from the federal railroa administration. d.c. has had seven incidents since 2015 and thereave been more than 60 cases in both maryland and in virginia. this check out the i-team'sast investigation on track deaths, head to our app. it was abreak-in to get a political scoop, or a simple door knock mischaracterized as a crime? a republican campaign staffer is claiming a "new york times" reporter cross the the line and tonight the newspaper is stngly denying the accusations. police now investigating. bureau reporter david culver is in wood brimg with both side of the story. >> repter: acism israel piece of paper torn out of a reporter's notebook. the note seemingly signed bye stephani saul, a "new york times" journalist and the

question how did she get inside. he claims saul walked into his unlocked apartment wednesday afternoon uninvited. he was at work and had a friend staying with him had. he says that friend h an unexpected run-in with saul. >> walking out of the bathroom and hearing something she turned around and stephanie wasan stding right where you are standing, right where you're standing. >> reporter: the "new yo times" says that's not what happened. in an e-mailed response they tell me, quote, miss saul went nto address for landrum associates in woodbridge and was told that heas not present after knocking and left a note call. him to at no time it she enter the premises. the note behind references corey as in corey stewart. brian believes he wanted to ask about workn the republican's campaign. >> come after me aggressivelyo to some extent i'm not

surprised. >> reporter: saul interviewed him in his home earlier this week and believes she's working on a profile on him. we wondered is this just anothet effo spread the fake news rhetoric? >> i don't hold this again all journalists. i hold it against certainly that reporter and the "new york epmes." >> rorter: prince william county police will oy nfirm they are investigating. they have not yet charged yone. in booedbridge, david culmer, news 4. >> now t president president's power play. ter two days of fierce criticism it'sch a understatement to say how unusual it would be fort presid putin to be at the

white house and difficult perhaps for troops serving overseas. >> didn'tommit to anything. he wanted to determine if there was anything helpful to the proses. what i was totally flabbergasted by is the white house would not defend me. i'm an amerin citizen and i worked for the government for five years. >> reporter: today the white house turned down putin's request. secretary sarah huckabee sanders released a statement saying in part it was a proposal made in sincerity by president putin but psident trump disagrees with if. >> "time" magazine is out with a dramatic visual that underscores the problem that shows an image of putin that morphs into

president trump and the a about the political blowback in helsinki as well as wt is described as the president's, quote, puzzling affinity for putin. more now from andrea mitchell's interview with the director of national intelligence dan coats at the aspen securityorum. the nation's top spy boss says he did not know president trump invited president trump to visit washington this fall just as our country gears up for mid-term elections. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announcedn twit their vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. vladimir putin coming -- >> did iou hear >> yeah, yeah, okay. >> dan coats also disclosed that he did not know in advance that president trp invit russia's foreign minister and ambassador into the oval office last year. more of andrea mitchell's interview and lester holt's interview with fbito dir christopher wray ahea after

news sports. >> drama in the democratic race for montgomery county executive. david blair officially filed a petition for a recount. earlier this week the board of elections certified the race for challenger mark ulrich but he has only an 80-vote lead blair believes a recount is appropriate because of the narrow vote margin and the numerous voting issues caused by an mva computertc g >> spokes with a new business model. >> and a hard foul and police called in a ckup game of basketball. doug? >> we're tracking a storm system. tornadoes that have made their way on the ground. got some video of that tt

joiks we've got a reminder if you ride metro. red line closures arroyave this weekend. the brooklyn and anue stations will stay closed and closed until labor day. part of the red cineapital mprovement projects and next weekend the work zone will extend to the silver springs station closing the tacoma station and red line platform at ft. totten. free shuttle buses will be in place where you can avoid t closures by use the green line between ft. totten and gallagher's place. >> we've been talking about this week about the hard ftul ion out in sterling, virginia. a guy wound up calling 911 aft being pushed during a pickup game of basketball. well, tonight, we get a point of view from the deputy who had to reond to this unusual call and pull double duty at both referee on and off the court. >> oh, it's not allba about sketball. >> is it something where you want me to have charges pressed against this man? >> no, because i don't want

retaliation. >> i don't own this place. >> both sides of thestory. >> you can both stay or both guy. >> we can just let it go. y'all enjoy the rest of the d i and you don't want to let it the go -- >> turns out the n man did wind up pressing charges and the two guys who say they actually know each other eventually went back to the basketball court and played some more. go figure. >> okay then. >> go figure. nowuco a more uplifting look at sports here in the sports world. a very touching moment at last night's espys. a nearly two-minute standing ovation for the survivors who accused forme gymnastics dr. larry nassar of sexual abuse. [ applause ] >> ifos we c to listen and we choose to act with w empathy can draw strength from each other. we may suffer alone but we survive together. thank you.

>> 141 athletes were honored with the arthur ashe award for courage. these are the women w gave such powerful testimony against nassar during his trials last year. he wasentenced to up to 175 years behind bars. the awarden is g to those who mirror the spirit of former tennis star and human rights advocate arthur ashe. >> what a powerful at the same time to see them all standing >like that. nd in another emotional moment from last night three ro coaches killed in the shooting at parkland football were named coaches othe year. just ahead, a major bank giving refunds to tens of thousands of customers who paid for svices they never received. we'll explain who could be back now. e money and better enjoy the sunshine and the tempetures whilrae

the day's top stories. white house officials say president trump has invited russian leader vladimir putin to washington this falol tow up on their helsinki summit, and the president now appears poised to reject putin's request to interview former russian ambassador michael mcfaul after a storm of bipartisaicism. things are back to normal at washington hospital center, but this was the sce earlier today after a man walked into the cancer center there anden thre to shoot doctors. the hospital was locked down while pole went and searched the building. some patients missed their appointment and officers never did find the man. >> the d.c.edal examiner is warning the public to sta away

from the synthetic judge that led to dozen of overdoses lately. the office has detected a brand-new strain of k2 on the streets in d.c. and artificial marijuana. there's more than 100 overdoses since saturday. >> more resources are coming to wells fargo customers. the bank says they have started paying back those customers who ndrchased add-on services to their count signed up witht understanding. here's susan hogan with more of what you need to teknow. >> rep first of all, we're talking about these add-on product like legal services and debt protection services. now the company confirmed with news 4 that it is reviewing add-on products sold to consumers by the bank, and if issues are found during this re ew, wells fargo tells us it will make things right with their customers. a spokesperson tells us those will either be in the form of

refunds or remediation. the comny is currently working with regulators on this ongoing review. thein consumercial protection bureau is also confirming it is looking into whether customers wer deceived into signing on to theseddn products and whether they were fully aware of that building to cancel them. th stopped selling add-on products in the middle of last year an it's also phasing out existing add-on products as we speak. wells fargo has spent, as you know,he last two years cleaning up from that scanned a.m. over fake accounts that were opened up in customers' names. back to you. well, some kids are enjoying this summer by the pool and some teenagers in arlington are at work learning to save lives. the fire department is earning its annua camp heat for team girls. they are hoping to power the young women and providing female role models. they go through physical training and they learnbout teamwork in the process. many of them say this camp is

giving them something to think about in the future. >> it's great, they are great influences and great role models for us, they really teach teenagers that you can become whatever you put your mind to d th good training and h work. >> if you're impacting the pathway of some of these women's lives so to be here and bere the is pretty special. >> the camp runs for another three days. the g tls geto learn about cpr, water rescues and, of course, geto use the fir hoses. >> starbucks is making history here in d.c. with a newtore operating in sign language. it will open at 6:00 and h streets near gallaudet university in october. thein coffee c says it will offer employment opportunities for the deaf and hard of hearing community. privityias who are dev will wear special agents with starbucks spelled out in sipe language and employees who can here will wear i sign pins. this will be the first one that

they have opened in the u.s. >> that's a very cool idea. hadn't thought about that, and isn't this a great option for a deaf student to find a summer job. >> or a good cup of coffee. >> that, too, of course. >> that's a good thing. >> good on you starbucks. >> beautiful day out theug. >> a really nice day before things go downhill and will go downhill fairly quickly. the weekend is not all that bad. dot take away that saturday and sunday that won't be a washout. >> first off outside right now. beautiful conditions and if today was saturday oh, yeah, it afternoon.beautiful temperatures in the 80s and leon, doreen and i would not be working. it would a saturday. so, sunday, too. >> 86 degrees the current temperature out there and 85 by next hour and dropping by about 73 degrees and a very nice afternoon and vy nice evening shaping up. 838 at dulles right now and 83 camp strings and 83 degrees over toward the annapolis area.

>> as we move on through the stf tonight. not seeing any rain and first of course, nothing around the ic mid-atla hoy and dry and no problem at all.er up towards iowa. over 30 rep nts ofthern dose and we've seen tremendous damage from these tornadoes. let's take look at this tornado. this came from the town of marshall town i belie it is, monster of a tornado destroying everything in its path and picking up and taking homes and advocates as well. i want to read one of these in the town of marshalltown. reports of catastrophic damage including vehicles ssing, vehicles overturned and tops of buildings gone and trees down and power lines, et cetera, all down. now a lot of people have been injured from this tornado and one over towards pella iowa, i've seen numerous repor on the ground in iowa and it continues to happen. this storm, wever, will not make it our way and will go on for the next couple o hours.

you can see super cellsound nil time see stomps moving to the east, it's a right mover. that has a big old tornado in it south and east. that not coming our way. that's going to stop nick from moving toward the east, a of low this a pressure, by stopping it it allows the moisture to continue to flow out ahead of it into our area. we're talking about h a very stormy pattern shaping up all of next week. what are we lexpecting,s of rain. 2 to 4 indhes possible even 6 to 8 inches are not out of the question. isolated chanc oflooding with this. not expecting a huge flood threat. very humid anderopical as get through the next few days. a great friday, 80 on saturday and 83 on sunday. temperatures come down. not much rain on saturday. i'm not expecting a ton of rain on sunda it's really into monday and all of next week that we see not just a lot of rain but humidity

there. not very nice at all. if you're traveling to the beaches, oh, not good there either. tomorrow, nice, great, but then the windll r kicks up and go see 30 to 40 mil per hour at the beaches,ot the best beach days. >> i hear scrabble is good for a rainy beach day. >> take video. >> coming up, the nationals getting hmuch-neededelp as they look to make a run in the second half of the season. dave is coming up next with sports. >> first her is lester holt with a look ahead on the "nbc nitly news. ". coming up, my conversion with the fbi direcssr and the ian threat hand whether they are still at the youth sports federation fed up w

all right. time to h this tton to start the second half of the season

with the nats and get things heading in the right direction. over. the all-star fun is you guys can hang out down there and get serious again. 2018, look, the nationals are a better team,right, at least on paper but not in a better place. only third pce and "the washington post" is reporting some players have expressed concern with how first-year manage m davytinez has managed his bullpen, have overworked relievers led to an underperforming team? well, they had a question for debate. what is certain is the starting rotation is about to get some help. stephen strasburg will start tomorrow night against t braves. he's been out since june 8 dealing with shoulderfl mation and since he's gone out they have three wins by mstarters other than scherzer. that's in 34 games. they need him. also expected back first baseman ryan zimmerman who has bee out since may 9th with obliq and hamstring injuries. with the team getting healthy, like leon nsaid, thes looking to make a run. >> you can do this.

they know it andnow it. getting everybody back health and we're looking forward to the second half. >> everybody getting health and getting going. we've got a battle and the braves are really good, phyllis are good and those are the two news that will make som as well and looking forward to the second half and lookingoi forward to what we need to do in the east. >> bring it on. >> we speak the sam language but we don't speak the same language. across the pond they seem to have a better way with words. we're told golfers took fullnt ade of benign breezes and flawless greens while the grandstands filled up. i can't say it that well. with high praise there were low scores incng tiger or at least early on. talking about that black tape or tigeecs stayed his neck had been bothering him and that tape helps him, simpleas. that might put tape on my neck. tiger hadn't birdied he first hole in ma major and that

changes. second shot a beauty. birdied two of the first four hos on the day must have been the benign breezes. our great start -- there's a term.re benignes. the putter is working and a 40-foo b putt todie the hole. he got it, hail. tied for 32nd and he cooled off and shot an even par 71. he's five shots back with this guy coming up here. first round leader. kevin kisner locked in on eagle in the third hole and where did he go to clem, by the way? >> kevin kisner? >> georgetown. >> there you go, that's it. >> that was too easy. >> back at it at 7:563 in the morning. hey, the beach boys gave us "end less bsummer" it's not. it's over or at least it feels that way and we're getting head vibrations and citations about nfl training camp. quarterback alex smith starts practicing a week from today. richmond, six in rginia's pital and in baltimore beach

chairs have been replaced by blocking slides. cut ou smell the fre grass. >> the ravens the first nfl team and lots of pressure at quarterback and joe flacco who has rookie lamar jackson and robert griffin iii nipping at his heels. baltim opened the camp earlier and willlay in the hall of game two weeks from football is on. way. sorry, beach boys. let me ask you this. how would you like $27.the million to leave your job? >> to leave. >> that's what's happening with -- with -- where do you sign up. w that'st happened to baltimore native carmelo anthony. according to reports oklahoma city thunder trading him to the hawks which will buy him out for 27.the million and anthony will become a free agent and houston rockets expected to retain his services. averaged 16.2 points per game but he's going a to be rich guy hich is what we all dream

about. we want summer to be back. >> thank you, dave. >> thanks for>> joining us. "nightly news" starts in 60 se

breaking news tonight, president trump has invited vladimir putin to washington and nbc news breaks the news to america's intelligence chief on live television. >> we have some breaking news, the white house announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white housin the fall. >> say that again. [ laughter ] g >> that's go be special. >> dan coats appearing to be caught off guard and what about the president siding with putin over him? >> obviously, i wished he made a different statement. >> plus my exclusive sitdown with the fbi director on the ssia threat, the mueller investigation and rehis. >> the have also been storied you threatened to