deadly storms. the death toll rising after a boat full of tourists cap sizes. plus tornado trouble. a first look at the damage. good morning erybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. we'll get right back to that in a minute. first a check on your forecast as we begin this friday. storm team4 tracking storms. >> chuck and sheena here with the forecast but melissa has been update on the roads. >> it looks nice outside. you're smiling very big right now. >> i'm a smiley person. >> are you? >> don't you think? >> sometimes. but this seems extra suspicus. >> i worry about people's outdoor plans this weekend. >> weold them. it's going to rain. >> exactly. maybe this is the weekend y binge watch your favorite show, read a nice book. peace for example. could be a lot of time to do

quality reading over the weekend. today, four things ao knowut the next four days. enjoy because rain chances are climeang. first t of rain comes from down south along the carolina coast line. higher amounts the farther east you go. if b you're beand for the weekend, it's really going to rain at the coastline. off and on shower chances here quite high as well. enjoy today. mid 60's in the suburbs to 70 downtown. afternoon temperatures with all that sunshine climbing into the mi or upper 80's around downtown. a little bit cooler because the clouds will be rollingntdown to the south first. closer look at that timing of the weekend rain chance coming up in a it about. for now let's go to melissa. >> of course. very happy. bethesda southbound 270 disabled vehicle on the right shoulder. 66est at 50 there, right side blocked by the crash.

we're going to try to get more ton t one. alexandria, duke tstreet, l lane blocked by the work zone there. beltway when you take a big look at things looking good inner loop and outer loop no big problems. >> thank you. we're staying on top of the breaking news. families and businesses in ia will be trying to clean up after a line of storms. >> the syste produced a or reported 32 tornadoes in just one day. you can see damage left behind. severe weather system left multiple injured and flattened buildings in three cities. >> chris lawrence is at the live desk. >> we've been following this story in missouri. about the duck boat crash. you can see some of the scenets e table rock lake there just outside in missouri.

severe thunderstorms rolled through last night and rocked that lake a duck boat carrying overle 30 peapsized in the water. we're told at least 11 people have drowned. some children. some witnesses say that stocrm has hitting so hard you could see waves as much as six feet high. boat was not able to get back to ore. what we're hearing now is that about five people are still reported missing. we're just a couple hours away from the search getting started again. as soon as the sun comes up out there they're going to get back water and try to see if anyone missing can still be found. of the aga if you see these duck boats they are a lot like the ones riding up and down the potomac river. back to you. it's 4 chn 33. developing this morning a surprising announcement froe te whuse regarding the

russian president. days -- four days after that helsinki summit there a plans to bring vladimir putin to washington. >> the invitation en surprised some in president trump's own st admition. visit is scheduled for the fall. putins first visitince interfering in the presidential election. since the summit the president has received a lot of criticism answers abouting whether he believes russia meddled in the election. >> look at the sanctions i put on. look at the diplomats i threw out. look at all of thhis that i have done. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if be doesn't work out, i'll the worst enemy he's ever had. >> coming up news4 tracie polls wi explain how one of the president's advisers found out on live television. now to decisn 2018 and the

recount for the race for montgomery county executive begins onay mo david blair lost by just 79 votes. could the mva glitch have had an effect. el rich expected the >> he has every right toe ask. if i was in a race this close and i thoug there was a chance that a recount would change it, i'd file for it too. i'm not surprise kind of expected it to happen. elections board of will begin that recount at 9:00 monday morning. t should only take one day but could stretch into two. >> here are other top stories this morning. a gop staffer who lives ins woodbridge s "new york times" reporter broke into his apartment this week. he says a friend caught the reporter inside his apartment on wednesday afternoon. according to the friend, he was leaving a note for him. "new york times" says that is not what happened. in a statement the paper insists

the reporter left the note with the friend and never went inside the unit. the report of an active shooter made for scary moments in the hospital after a man threatened to shoot doctors. it was only a verbal threat. police swept the entire campus. no one was hurt as the lockdown was lifted about an hour later. s man was never found. >> part of met tro's red line will closeonight and not reopen until september. a 45-day shutdown. starting tomorrow. it is for repairs and maintenance. more capacity will be added to the green and yellow lines. shuttle busesill also be provided to replace red line train service. soday maineet will reopen to traffic. >> the street has been closed for nearly twoths after deadly floods. there are some who feel reopening the street is a step backwards. saying there is still a long way

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you're watching news 4 today. >> now, to a story we've been talking about all week,he hard foul out in sterling. a guy called 911, after he says he was fouled a little too hard during a pickup basketball game. >> now, we're looking at bodca ra footage of the deputy that responded to this unusual call >> what is it? hi it's not normal basketball. >> is there som that you want charges against this man? >> no. i don't want retaliation. >> i don't own this place. >> i've heard both sides of this story. you all can just go and enjoy the rest of your day and let it . or you don't want to let it go,

you can both go. >> there you have it. >> is the t guy in black shirt the one with the foul? >> the employee is the one the beard. the man did not wind up pressing charges. the police officer said, do you want charges? he wantedim kicked out of the facility. i feel the same w you're feeling. you don't have to any anything and i know what you'rethinking. the two guys involved returned to the basketball court. >> it's too hot in the -- get out of the kitchen, right? >> can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen? i'm guessing he won't be invited back to play at that place anymore. 4:42 right now. if y want t run faster, nik nike says they have the shoes for you. >> t lyk like moon shoes, do they not? maybe they will speed you up. temperatures this morning are in the 70s.

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4:46, breaking news in northeast washington this hour. >> derrick ward joins us live from the scene with more on what's going on. derrick? >> reporter: good morning. we're at these intion of 4th and rhode island avenue northeast. you will find that intersection closed if you're doie early morning travel. the intersection is closed at rhe island for what appears to be a homicide. detectives are on the scene ong with regular metropolitan police officer, while the ensues.gation we don't have a lot of information about a victim or a motive or a lookout. again, expect to see some workaround as you head o 4th street on rhode island avenue northeast. all appearance, seems to be a homicide

we're live in northeast, derrick ward, news 4, back to you. >>rr k, thank you. your time is 4:47. now, for the latest concerning the families who were separated at the >>rder. he trump administration says it has reunited ld364 cn aged 5 and older, with their families. now, this leaves hundreds of reunions to go before a court-imposed deadline next week. the justice department says it has identified more than 2,500 children who may be covered by that court order. just days after president trump's performance helsinki summit stunned the world, another shocking announcement from the white house that took the director of national intelligence by surprise. >> we have breaking news. the white house has announc on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? did i hear you? >> yeah. >> okay.

that'soing to bespecial. >> that's nbc's andrea mitchell breaking the t news national intelligence director dan coats. >> tracie potts is on capitol hill for us. whatti the re been to the announcement? >> the timing is interesting here becauset gives vladimir putin, who is accused of trying to tinker in our election, a front-row seat in the heat of the fall campaign. another stunning announcement from the white house. remember when the presidentaid days ago, standing next to putin, that was it an incredible idea to have their people interview americans, to have the two intelligence sides tea . the president called that idea incredible. now, the white house says he's backing off that. the senate also voting against having americanso to moscow to be questioned.

every democrat and republican in the senate voted against that. >> tracie potts, live for us on capitol hill. thank yo new details on the woman accused of being a secret agent for ruia. mariia butina was arrested for allegedly working with the russian government to gain influence in americanlitics. people who knew butina during her time at american university, said there were some red flags, like her support for vladimir putin and guns. a neighbor said she saw nothing suspicious until one night when a swarm of fbi agents showeup. >> i hear a banging. the man says, please, miss, stay inside. so, i did. andthen, i heard -- they continued to bang really loudly. they said, we know you're in there. >> butina has moved out of that now, she faces charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the unistates. her lawyer says she has done

nothing wrong. if maryland governor larry hogan wins re-election, he says he will do i without the help of the nra. he told student w that held reject a potential endorsement from the national rifle associatio that's according to "the washington post." the republican said he backs strengthening a law that holds parents responsible when the kids get access to guns. 16-year-old jalen wily was killed elier this year. another day, another massive bee attack. it was a tree cutter that into a beehive. and he was stung 200 times. >> h cut it open and was stung by a couple hundred bees. >> there wn estimated 500,000 bees inside that hive.

the worker was taken to the hospital. an exterminator was called to get rid of the bees in that area. th's the stuff of a horror movie. 500,000? my >> we knew it was coming. 4:51. are you talking of "end of days" aaron? the nats will start the second half of the baseball seon. stephen strasburg will start tonight. he hasn't played since june 8th. that's good news. the nats have won 3 g of 34es with starters other than max scherzer since eethen. we help on that end. first baseman, ryan zimmerman, is. expected ba he's been out since early may. those are two, big players. we need that. the nats have won 48nd lost 48. right in the middle there, trying to get above the halfway mark. the first pitch against the braves, 7:05. >> if they're going to bat they should do the weather. >> i think you bat better than .500. >> where is the coin toss when

you need it? >> i think you bat better than .500. >> a zero chance of rain today. >> that's one good news. >> your saturday morning is going to start out dry. by tend of the day tomorrow, probably as early as lunchtime, rain cha ges will beng up quickly. a partly-cloudy sky over washington this morning. comfortable enough to be outside. 60s to around 70. we have two l areas of pressure that are going to plague our weekend forecast. there's saturday's rai chance. and this one up heerrennn ota, that's sunday into monday's rain chance. the real problem with all of this pattern we have going on, is a large pressure over the western atlantic that is going to act like a blocking pattern. all of the moisture coming up through the gulf of mexico will that means our rain chances will go up and stay up, starting tomorrow mid to late morning and going well through theweekend, and well into next week. there's future weather again. for today, just gradual

increase in clouds. not a real chance for rain today. here's 8:00 a.m. for tomorrow. here's rain from noon tomorrow, quite a bit of rain, especially south and east of washington. an during the course of the day tomorrow, it could rain heavily at times. how much rain potentially? this is only one computer's estimation. 1 1/2 to 2 or 3 inches of rain tomorrow. and then, on top of that, rain chances stayupup, up, way into the middle parts of next week. this ptern change is going to mean that our little flash drought we had for a dry couple of weeks, this will be a distant memory. high rain chances between ts an next friday. good morning, melissa. how is your friday going? >> it's dry. it's great, thank you. westbound 56. you can see the crash on the road here.

that's been hanging out 25 or 3i tes. not slowing things too much.l s still, you can see the stop on the right side ofhe roadway. inner loop and outer loop, the adwork is out of the way. you don't have to worry about that. this is where derrick ward is, rhode st 4th street a island avenue. that shooting investigation is under way there. taking a look at 270, down to the spur, you're on time. had a disabled vehicle there, near montgomery mall. seems like that is out of the way. >> it's 4:54 rightnow. almost 2 million people in our area will see changes to their water and sewer bills. for the first time in 29 years,o the washi suburban sanitary commission voted to change its i pricing comm. the new rate structure will lower bills for larger us olds and increase bills for people who live alone. it's based on a four-tier system. customers will be charged for

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a powerful storm hits the midwest, leaving miles of

destruction in its wake. >> is it coming this way? >> a look at the damage done and the incredible footage shot at the height of that tornado outbreak. multiple people kdead and many more injured after a ssouri boa accident. fears that the death toll will continue to rise. and a major metro route closing f weeks. what it means for your commute and what you need to get around it. >> "news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> that breaking news, d.c. policenvestigate an overnight deadly shooting in northeast. here's a live look atsc the e, officers there working on the investigation. this is about two block away from the rhode island avenue metro station. in a have a live report few minutes. it's 5:00 a.m. i'm eun yang.'m >> aaron gilchrist. thanks for joining us. at yourgin with a look friday morning commute and forecast. >> we want to start with storm team 4 chuck bell and sheena parveen. on