right now at 4:30, waking up to a weather alert. more storms on the way after a weekend of rain. stations shut down. repairs closing two red lines stops formonths. how it can impact your commute on all of the rails. weeks after you cast your ballot, it's about to be cnted all over again. we'll tell you why. "news 4" begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. >> the rain that kept so many of us inside.e it will back in a few ldhours. you shxpect a lot of it when it does return.

>> check is here with the forecast. and melissa is here to let us know what's going on the roads. >> the latest is, there is still rain to come. we're in weather alert mode for you. i say code raid. that's the graphics around us. we're going to havto stay in problem. we have some heavys rain t morning, just to the eastin o ig , aacresto virginia. flood watches and local newsed flood rnings are in place. could get another lynch-plus today and wetomorrow.

l let you know if there's any 90s ahead coming up. >> thank yhe. first,iant sink hole could interrupt your morning compute. this is on catthe likely cardin. it is likely to take a couple weeks. >> people that areomputing to work, it will be a major inconvenience for them. >> we want to go to melissa a lot of people see the thoroughfare. >> the da nmascus area, trying ge work to come down. >> take clarks bed. something like that. german down road would help you

to 70 instead. the lanes are blocked because of in a sink ole. overturned vehicle. it is on the shoulder, so, that helps. >> the springfield ramp is blocked at that crash. today, some metro riders are goin h toe to make travel plans. two stations are closed for r r re until in septemberlerd. free shuuses will help get people ay from the closures. we're going to the latest in canada. >> let's get straight to some of the video of that scene. itappened on one of the busiest streets in canada and

the shooter and young women are dead. he only shot a total of 16 people, including the young woman whoot died. hento a shoot-out with police. as far as a tive, police say it wasn't random we earnedre eed it. a woman in ocean city was apaled in the chest with beach umbrella. we'reworking to get an update on her season this morning. the womas conscious. a gust of wind lifted that off of the ground. wind gustsreittle less than 20 miles per hour at that time. officials plan to raise the

gut poet that capsized and intonk into a left. yeses nremain why the boat was on the water in the first place. wruns t once the boat is recovered, it will be taken to facility for investigation. a familyonnues to work with a hit and drun browser. the driver was her own brother. >> she asked her father for a wide and maureen knoor moreno rd kept going. >> trump launches a furious all--caps t twitteat going toward iran. he tweeted this. never threaten the university against, unless you will face consequences.

the president war with iran is the mother of all wars, relations with iran have deteriora deteriorated. coming up, news 4's tracie potts will break down the latest poll numbers. the recount begins today. david brair lost toark el rich. the board of elections suggests that recounts will only take one day. the processegins at 9:00 this morning and i doubt anyone will come to watch. >> everything is done carefully. it's opened for observers. mr. blair will have his represents there. >> the winner of the democratic nomination will twice two others. today will be monica

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clarksville. not far from clarksville middle school. e big question we have right now is who was inside that home? it's something we are working to find out. nicoleacobs is on her way to the seen. she'll bring us more information as soon as she gets there. >> chris, thank you. the senate will vote to confirm robert wilke as the next ancretary of vet affairs. wilke has beenct aing as secretary since march. the first choice wro dr. ie wckson. hehdraw his nam after accusations of drinking on the job and improperl prescribing medicati medication. the i-team has done several interviews on the office of titeran affairs. voters are l president trump feel about the job he is doing. >> the majority of americans

disapprovesf president trum handling of russia and immigio immigration. tracie potts joins us live from capitol hill with a deeperook the poll numbers. >> yes, on the economy. o on russia and some other issues, but the president's overall job approval setting, just a one-point change from last month. e of the big takeaways here, 51%. a slight majority disagrees with how president trump is handling the relationship with half of the people were skl before hiseeng with vladimir putin, half after. the other thing you mentioned, how the president is handling, reuniting wi the family. less than one-third approve of how the president is dealing with that. overall, he remains stea. but russia seems to be a thorn

sn his side when it comes to what the public thinking about how the president's handling it. >> tracie potts on the hill breaking it down. >> a community is in mourning, after a shootinge insid nevada church. they say o'connor had fired a few shots and walked home. one of the members there, charles miller, was killed. the alleged shooter was taken icme. a second vtim was shot in the leg. police believe the shooting was not directed at the church but an individual. donations continue to pour in from theil f of this popular d.c. manager. he was the manager of millie's. he was waiting for an uber with his wife, brother and sister-in-law, after a wedding reception in atlanta. they thought the car that pulled up was their uber driver. once inside, the group was

robbed and broder was shot. a suspect has been a arrested connected with this crime. a sparking space is touching off convinsomething started. this happened after a man confronted a woman who was in a handicap spot. the woman's boyfriend here shofed the man to the ground. that man pulled out a gun and shot mclachlan. the stand your ground law allows people to use deadly force in self-defense. some are calling the shooting unjustified. >> he was tryin to protect us. he loved his family. he wanted us to be strong and safe. >> youno c because you're

pushed down and angry, fire at someone. i don't think he has a right to do what he did. >> as we understand it, mcla. according to "the st. louis post dispatch,"om gave rides on the twitch website. nbc news has not verified that report. but, in statemen uber and lift say they have problemed him as a driver. most needs concept from oy one party so it to be legal.ou ifrought some ritz crackers, you might want to throw them out. the company is fixing it because

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rich or pouor, it's going to ran on you today. your chances of winning the lottery are gore. the chances of getting rained on, it will be very too. weed a our rainiest one-hour period. we had over 2 1/2 inches of rain. and on saturday, another inch and a third.'v had all thisnin, in about 24 hours, if you boil it all down andaw us. it's been coming down in buckets. that's going to continue. the movementte in the w atlantic has blocked any problem. on the west side of that, we have a big plume of moisture coming of the gulf and the southern atlantic. we'll keep our hig rain chances. we're getting a break in the

action now. that's not going to last. rain, thunder and lightning, ow, down to the south of richmond that's coming in our direction. the last line of thunderstorms here, in the northern parts of frederick county and far eastern and washington county and maryland. that's headednorth, we'll get a break in the action before the heavierains come back in. here's future weather. it doesn't look all that impressive on future weather. underneath any of those individual storms, you can pick up a quick inch or more on rain. when does it come to an end? the first dry day is thursday. the weekend looksretty good before more rain. only 19 one 90 in the next ten days. >> it will be a wet one for days to come. germantown, father hurley boulevardbl ked.

there's a sinkhole, here. 118 is your best bet. n rockville, some roads are blocked. sounds like they have to pull over a inactor-trainer. bethesda, a crash with an overturned vehicle. that's good. and springfield, the ramp to franconia road. we'll talk abo flooding do town. a few minutes away from the 5:00 hour. a historic win in the championship. francesco molina. >> yesterday's final round left it open for others. tiger woods was disappointed in his loss. >> serena and i are good friends. i'm sure she will call me and

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packed screen last night. he talked about this is not his first mov premiere in our area. >> i did a top gun premiere here. i never got a school trip here but i came here with family. i love this seum. been here many times. " mission impossible: foulout" is out on fray. the day has arrived. two metro stations are closed. and if you didn't makeplans, you may be in trouble. what you need to get around. heartbreak and anger when a woman was kille behind the wheel. that's next on "news 4 today."

"news 4 today" begins with breaking news. >> that breaking news a big fire in maryland causing a massive response from firefighters. >> i'm angie goff in for eun yang. chris lawrence ising the latest developments our correspondent nicole jacobs is going to the scene. i want to get you the latest picture of that fire in howard county. it started around 2:00 this morning. and investigators have confirmed

one firefighter has been injured and taken to the hospital. the ews are getting support. the home is on woodscrape drive, just off of ilrd just south of maryland, state route 32. we don't know what caused this fib fire for if anyone was injured. the big question is if anyone was home at the time. aaron, angie, back to you. >> we'll keep an eye out on that story. we're tracking more wet weatr headed our way. >> we sure are tracking the weather on the roadways, a well. we're looking at more heavy rain. >> i will continueo come down, heavy and fast at times. be ready.

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