take a live look outside our northwest washington studios. hours fromno it will be a much different picture. areas of heavy rain tomrow leading to a storm team 4 weather alert. friends are truggling to come to grips with the murder of

a man in old town, alexandria. >> miss him. i miss him. he's n with us. >> all new tonight, we're live with their special tribute. >> news4 begins with a storm team 4 weather ooalert. >>evening. you can call it the calm before the storm. twin systems are now teaming up to give us one supersoaking. >> we're in weather alert mode tonight to make s you're prepared for the rain tomorrow. doug is in the studio to show us who could see the greatest impact. >> that's a big key. not everybody's going to be doused with rain all do i ng. in and around. >> 95 and points to the east, you have the best chance to see that. the rain will make its way tomorrow in the south. allus fg around this storm that's brought severe weather once again toik places kentucky and portions of

tennessee. that system moving our way. by tomorrow morning, i around our region. look how much rain we see in that area. some areas west of the blue ridge may not s a whole lot. dc eastward, a big soaker we're in for a lot of rain terough the next couple days. i'll up you how much to expect tomorrow and what 0 expe right on into the end of next week. a long rainy pattern shaping up. >> thank you, doug. see you in a few minutes. stay with news4 as we get you ready for tomorrow's rain. it will be a weather alert day. for forecasts open our nbc washington app. >> new at 11:00 tonight, paying tribute to a man kil on the job in alexandria. he loved to bicycle throughtold streets. as darcy spencer shows us, ople close to him took one last ride tonight to honor his memory. darcy? >> reporter: jim, the victim was

simply at work right up here in the second story office building. his friends a still struggling to try to figure out why this happened. and some tell me this bike ride tonight helped bring them a little closure. they rode bikes ton one of their friends brad jackson. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: a man who could be seen riding his old bike here every day. t this bike had no rider. it was pushed in memory of jackson who was week ago he will be with us all the time. we love you. we will love you forever. >> reporter:ro the gup rode from big wheel bikes to the crime scene and placed red roses at the doorstep and took a moment to reflect on loss. >> amazing man.'r all going to miss him. >> every sing person who he's ever met will be affected by this forever. >> reporter: jackson was 65 years old. he was found dead at his job window universe ary second s

office. the man charged is from new jersey. potce say does not appear jackson knew him. they're still searching for a motive. >> it's senseless. i mean,ack of a better word, no. nothing makes any sense. >> you want to mount up? we're going to have a drink. >> reporter: as his friends wait for more answers how his life could have been taken sovi ently, they're focusing on a kind gentle man who had many friends. >> i prayed just now. i prayed and i said make him one of my angels. i got a couple already up there. make him one of them. let him be okay up there. i know he's up there. >> he certainly did hav a lot of friends. the suspect in the case has been charged with emurder. is expected to appear in court sometime next month. reporting live inalexandria, darcy spencer, news4. >> thank you. transportationl safety board says all of the

victims have been accounted for now in missouri where severe weather led tuc a boat sinking. but it will likely be weeks or even month w before know exactly what went wrong. 17 people thdied. youngest just a year old and more than half of the victims are from the same family. has new gray information tonight. >> reporter: a grieving community pauses to say good-bye. >> our community was awakened today, shaken by the tragic news of the death of 17 people. >> reporter: 17 dead. the victims ranging in age from 1 to 70. nine from the same .family >> poor guys. oh my gosh. >> reporter: their tour boat. >> goingunder. he's going under. >> reporter: swallowed by intense waves and wds gusting to more than 60 miles an hour. those on the lake at the time say the storm moved in quickly.

the area was under a severe thunderstorm warning just 30 minutes before things turned deadly. those contions just one of.key factors in the ongoing investigation >>here. t's way too early for me to try to speculate what happened, at all did occur, what went wrong and the safety issues because i don't think we know at this point. >> reporter: what we do know is that more than a dozen people at state park marina -- >> oh, my god, rushed in to t to help, haunted now by what they saw at the scene, empty life vests. >> it's very eerie. just to see the life jacks floating and life rings floating and nobodyn them. >> reporter: as their work continues investigators hope to pu b thet from the lake bottom by monday. jay gray, nbc news, branson, missouri. 14 of the passengers on than duck boat survived theaccident. investigators plan to talk to them in the coming daysin hop

they can provide key details from the moments before that boat went under. >> detectives have a detailed description tonight of the man wanted for attacomng a early this morning in charles county. the victimays she was walking along the road in marbury when a man offered her aride. the sheriff's office says the driver pulled out a knife andse ally assaulted the woman. the attacker is thin, has graying blonde hai andlue or green eyes. he was wearing a tractor supply ball cap. and was driving a white explorer with myland plates. leon at the live desk with new rev layings on the big breaking newory. a recording of president trump talking about paying off a playboy model reveals the opposite of wha l hisyer said today. michael cohen secret lit taped a conversation between the two

orn. two months b the election, the pair debated paying off a model who claims she had an affairp.ith tr today the president's current lawyer rudy giuliani says the recording shows trump insisted p oning with a check to insist there was a paper trail. we ror the opposite. trump suggested paying the model in cashnd cohen insisted on a check. today giuliani says the president never made any payment. trump denied the affair. >> i'm notli a . i did what i did. it not proud of >> "the new york times" reports recording zed the during a raid on cohen's offices. prosecutors lookingnto h role into paying womenuring the election cycle to avoid embarrassing headlines. >> ellicott city has something to celebrate tonight.

video shows both ends of main street now open to traffic. part of the road was off-limits after a deadly flash flood in may. trfic is moving again butss businees along main street are stillg clean up and trying to rebuild. some smaller streets and parking repairs.ain closed for the keep the want drivers to take it slowly. >> starting tomorrow, metro will close the brook land and rhode island island stations on the red line for more than two repairs. crews make as a result, the city is designating busnly lanes on rhode island avenue between north capital andtr 12thts in northeast. that means no parking during the day. this is expected to last through early september.d we poste all the details in our nbcashington app. >> family members became classmat today as two generations graduated together in washington. grandmother sandra brooks burr

wanted to finish high school. then her grandson delonte who has a learning disability decided to jn her on stage today. theyoth graduated from the good will excelharter school and said having each other helped them get through the lono s of homework and studying. >> it was a little hard time but i got used toit if a young man like him can come in and society says that he's not teach but he's proving them to be wrong, it's amazing. >> both are headed to udc in the fall. sandra plans to study hospitality. delonte will study technology. coming up a waitress refuses to be a victim. going after a customer who grabbed her behind. th video has gone viral and tonight, you'll hear the customer's excuse. >> a summer travel season

warning. crooks a ting to get their hands on your hard earned vacation cash. we're working for you so you don't get scammed. >> and only o news4, a survivor who lost two friends in a crash iny fairfax count

he survived a crash that killed two friends. anel he us he can't remember the wreck that changed his life forever. >> but he is sharing what happened in the hours leading up to the tragedy. new tonight, shomari stone in fairfax county with the story o you'y see on news4. >> reporter: as the sunsets over

reston, virginia, two crosses y withlow and pink flowers re on the side of fairfax county parkway honoring 21-year-old ta nish na mccoy and 23-year-old joselyn herndon. >> i was feeling sad. i just lost two friends. this 25-year-old is too sad to show his face on camera. he wasn an suv with toe nish shah, joslyn and another friend vio was d early sunday morning. the suv lost control flipping over. >> do you remember the suv veering off the road. >> no. >> reporter: he tel meet group was at a party before the accident. >> wwere out celebrating. >> reporter: police believe alcohol and speed may have farcs in this crash. we reached out to a sergeant tonight and he tells us crash is still under investigation. the driver who we won't ne so survived. she won't comment on the crash. >> was the driver drinking? >> no.

>> she was sober? >> ye e >> reportety their parents struggle to cope with the losses. we interviewed them a cple days ago. >> it is very hard. it's very hard. >> she made youeel likeould you do everything. >> i'm still waiting for the final results of the investigation. >> reporter: their friends set up go fund me accounts to help with t funeral expenses. we posted both links on our app. search reston crash victims. shomari stone, news4. rnedtonight, we've l fairfax county police are investigating to see if reckless driving played a role in thecr h. was it an accident or an assault? the two people in a viral video have very different takes on the situation. surveillanceideo from a restaurant in savannah, georgia, shows a customer walked past a waitress and grabbed her backside. the man tried to kp walking but the waitress takes him downa the customers he was trying to get the woman w move

aside. >> he got what he deserved. degrading. >> police arrested the customer. he's charged with sexual battery. the waitress tells "people" ge magazine stran are reaping out to thank her for standing up for herself. she says she hopes her actions will empower other women. >> he won't do that again. we're about halfway through the very busy summer travel season. s,d if you're booking last minute tr tonight we've got a warning about possible scams. experts say overseits like kan, paris, madrid and barcelonr among those are the most fraudulent reservations. vation ers often are victims by booking through third party as and shady apps. inasome they reposted someone's legitimate rental on her site. >> it's just heart breaking because people look so forward

to their weeks at the beach with their entire family and holidays. now to avoid getting scammed, book directly with hotels or reputable rental sites. experts say be skeptical if the price sounds too good to be true, it probably is. what would you do you with $433 millio ght now, people all across our area and the country are checking their pocket andson wallets to see if they hit the megamillionsjackpot. currently it's megamillions sixth largest lever. here'sk at the numbers for you, 1, 14, 30, 44, 62, and the megaball is 1. again, the total is $433ll n. we just checked in the newsroom and we'll be seeing all ofou here on monday. >> oh, yes we will. we were counting on kelvin our

writer with the winning ticket. >> one gets to behe up twice 1234 what's up with that. >> one should never be alone. it's not fair. okay. you better keep the jokes coming, doug. not a good night. you don't have good news to share. >> no, that's the ning. it's bo nice. the last three days gorgeous. >> spectacular. >> all week we had great weather for the home run derby, great weather for the a-star game. even after three inches of rain. an hour. had some on on tuesday. the next stretch it's going to be one that does have a lot of rainfall out thergh now a very nice night. current temperatures at 77. it's warmer than it has been the past couple of nights. we've got the humidity trying to move in across the area. last night, we were in the 60s in manyat lns. now in the low 70s. 74 gaithersburg, 73 over towards huntingtown. no rain right now. notice the area in green, eastern shore under a flash flood watch. i wouldn't be surprised if some

of our area especially southern maryland, prince george jess county, montgomery, fairfo the east could be under a flash flood watch tomorrow too over towards t eastern shore. this is why. nothing around our area now. back to the west, big storms that are trying to move our they're not going to get here tonight. what this storm is doing, see ? the spin he this is the one that prompted all the severe weather towards iowa and missouri yesterday into parts of kentucky and tennessee today. this storm picks up all this moisture to the south. we're going too start see the rain make its way up here quickly. future weather as we move on through 7:00, 8:00 tomorrow, the rain starts to move in. i-95 eastward much better chance foisrain. model shows you what i'm talking about here. i-95. rain off toward the beltway. frederic, leesbu winchester, less of a chance for rain. that rain out there mostly

fairly light. that's good news. here's i-95. 5:00 tomorrow afternoon seeing hey rain in parts of the region. that's why some locations could picko p oneu two inches. this computer model 1.2 inches, d.c. nearly 2 inches in annapolis. half an inch inleesburg. west of the blue ridge, almost nothing back here. they've a tenth of an have the umbrella ready back to the west. not much in the way of the rain. most of the rain in the counties along i-95 and points to the east. that's something we'll watch dor yoing the day tomorrow. high 76 degrees. falling temperaturesuring t day. best chance of rain, we're lling tomorrow a weather alert day. it's a saturday. it's not looking good at all. a lot of swim meets. i'm getting a lot of reports about swip meets. one in chantilly, one in falls church. i the swim meets will be okay. i'm not expecting lightning and sunday.

81 on sunday. 83 on monday. 85 tuesday. look at the chances of rain upwards of 80% monday and tuesday all the way through next week, as wel remember, i was a swimmer when i was young, too. you're going to get wet even as a swimmer, you get t. it's the parents and the score keepers, there's going to be a lot of umbrellas watching their kids. >> umbrellas and raincoats. harder to do the stopwatch thing too with an umbrella. >> yeah,yeah. >> that takes skill. >> good luck with that. >> all right. thank u, doug. >> kelvin at the all-star game in d.c. was a blast. it was back to work fortunate tonight. could they inch t closer he could they inch t closer he division lead with the braveind

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is the xfinity sportsdesk. >> bryce harperinng the home run derby felt like the shot in the arm the nats needed. after all, they had lost five of their last eight heading into the break. they gotteen strasburg and ryan zimmerman off the dl today. strasburg last pitched june 8th, sim last played on may 9th did pinch hit in the sixth. their star pitcher took the mound, results not up to his rd stan strasburg might need more time to get sharp. braves shostop ozzie albees gets atlanta on the board with an rbi double. he steals third later scores on a sac fly. nats trail in the bottom of the first. this is the all-star mojo we were talking about, a little

momentum. what's better than one steal. how about two? yce harper steals second. eaton steals home to cut the deficit in half. washington down by a single run in the sixth. freddie freeman breaks the game open. the double off strasburg followed by a sac fly gives the braves a 6-2 lead. of max scherzer had something to say to his fellow starter in the exchange. it got heated. nats lose, 8-5.am next against the braves tomorrow night at 7:05. orioles in toronto. first game without manny muchado after he was traded to the dodge persons hisnt replacemet shortstop lookinggood. two-run homer forckm. baltimore grabs the lead. ninth inning, o's down a run. jonathan fixes thatome run off his national teammate. game tied at seven. we head toex as.

bottom of the tenth, runners on trn. ball off the bad of diaz. jays walk off. 8-7 the final.st juhat kind of season for the birdies. speaking of sirdiesond round of the open championship in scotland. tiger woods shot even par ind roone. a similar day today. his approach at 18 solid. puts him within a couple feet of the hole. sets him up for ahance to birdie. can't get it the to roll in, finishes at even par once again. six shots behind the leaders. on of those leaders two-time major champion zach johnson. here he is on 18. getting the putt to drop from deep. tied with kevin kin zer topping the field. the day goes to jordan spieth showing off his short game at the 3rd. that's a nice birdie. sits three shots back heading into the weekend. >> that's the way you do

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