through tse floor. >> r to the surface. we're getting our fir a look the doomed duck boat and the new clues that could emerge. >> and condo collapse.vi ng ona build krombliing crumb ami beach. >> "news 4 at 4:00" begins right now. >> we begin with a weather alert. >> a monday soaker.ti storms ce to dump bucket of rain in parts of the area just at the very start of a wet we f ahead us. >> how do you like our wallpaper back here, you know? you'll be seeing a lot tfs. that heavy rain has already caused plenty of problems. it's going to be aeek before they fix this thing. this is a massivee sinkh that is that's patched up on father hurley boulevard in germantown. they are trying to patch it up. it was caused by a metalth pipe at rusted and collapsed creating a 20-feet deep >> wow. >> all that rain also saturated the ground, and that's causing

trees toopplever. this fell on a home on sleepy hollow road in annendale starting last tuesday, just an incredible amount of rain that we've seen from tuesday on. over 8 inches. >> record rainfall last tuesday. record rainfall on saturday, anw yesterda didn't break a record, but we saw over an inch, even up to 4 inches across the region. >> we'll get a lot more. we've been talking about this for the better portion of a week talking about the moisture train making its way from the south. all of this rain is moving from south to north and all the way to partsf new england. big-time flooding into parts of pennsylvania and emergency is there are for us.te scd showers and heavier storms from time to time. baltimoreaw a littleit of rain and hagerstown, saw a pretty amount, too. c jeffersonnty and berkeley

county. now i'm watching this area down to the we're tracking this area down around fairfax county and prince william county and fredericksburg. this will move up across fairfax county and loudoun county and parts of montgomery. we could see more flooding and because of that we're all under a flood watch until 2:00 a.m. on wednesday. es, we'll see rain today and tonigh we're really more concerned about tomorrow into tomorrow night. we're going he much more on that and this flash flood watch is really inffect for everybody. how much more we expect and how long this is all going to stick around. see you back here in ten minutes. >> you've got it, doug. >> the hour-by-hour forecast is available on the nbc washington app there. when you need, it along with th4 storm tea radar and open it up in your home screen. >> breaking news right in the district. there was a shooting not far where a 10-year-old, where that little girl was shot and killed lastee

scott macfarlane is at our live desk. >> police found a man wh a gunshot wound near 53rd street and ea capital street and northeast about 1:00 this afternoon. it's 1:00 in the hospital. he's not conscious nor is he breathing, not far from where the 10-year-old was shot and w killed lastk after a group of men opened firen that neighborhood. know yet they don't if the shootings have anything to do with each other. >> we don't have any information that would suggest that at this time, and the detectives are on the scene and, of course, we'll be exhausted every lea in the investigation. >> still trying to figure out what happened here, what's the sequence of events. news 4's shomari stone is on the way and will have an update at 5:00. for now, live at the news desk, scott macfarlane. now back to you. >> agedy in howard county where a firefighter was killed where he was rushing to others. >> nathan flynn was battling a massive fire this morning at a home on woodscape dri in clarksville when the floor collapsed under him and traming in the flames.

>> flynn is the first career firefighter in howard county to be killed in the line of duty. derrick ward is in clarksville this evening where this whole community is feeling this tragic loss. derrick? >> reporr: indeed they are. we heard that from the county executive, and you hear f itm the people in the neighborhood. you can see what a massive structure this was, and you tan se amount of damage that was done to this fire. of course, the biggest tragedy of all, the loss of life that happened with that firefighter at this fire that happened before dawn today. a this fire was caused by lightning strike, an act of nature in this massive home in th 700 block of woodscape drive in clarksville. it started just 2efore0 a.m. >> this is a sad and tragic day for howard county. nty eporter: howard c firefighter nathan flynn lost his life doing what the men and women of firefighters do routinely. >> as the firefighters were making their way inside the structure, firefighter flynn fell through the floor, f

first floor to the basement. >> reporter: a may day call went out and aescue team rushed in. they located flynn amid smoke and flames that raged the basement. a 13-year veteran of the howard county fire department he was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. >> we know there's aays the possibility of this day, but we hope it never comes. >> reporter: three pple inside the homemade it out safely. the fire would eventually go to seven alarms, and it took hours to put out completely. departments from a number of surrounding respond and now a different response is called for. >> he's a brother, and our job now is to make sure that his familiar hi and our brother are laid t rest with dignity and with all the honors we can provide to him.im. it's also our job to take care of the family rever. >> reporter: back with you live now.

most of the fire fighting equipmt has left the scene. they still need to shore up the house so they can do an investigation into what caused the fire, what led to the firefighter's d and if anything can prevent this finm happ in the future. live in clarksville, derrick ward, news 4. >> that's aseig h you can only imagine how intense that blaze was, yeah, yeah. >> thanks, derrick. >> reporter: lots of fuel, lots of fuel. >> unfortunately. thanks, derrick. metro riders are working their way around the biggest track work shut dow since safe track. the brookland and rhode island stations ased down now for platform and track repairs. shuttle buses are being provided, but the riders are being couraged to get off the train at ft. totten and transferred to the korean or yellow line and continue the trip there. the track work is expected to last until day. >> for the second time in less than a month police are on scene of what they are calling a death

investigation. this in the city of alexandria. >> but so farrs investiga are not revealing many details about the person or what may have happened t them. news 4's pat collins joins us now live from the scene. this is near potomac yard. pat? >> leon, so what happened here? was it a murder? was it an accident or something else? police have been heor more than eight hours now trying to figure that out. >> it was a major undertaking. at the scene alexandria's special crime investigation unit. cops in the house. cops i the back of the house. cops going door to door to door. >> for now police are calling it a death investigation. they say they were brought to this home this morning after the body of a man was found inside. police aren't saying who the man

is.r how old he is there someone in custody? no, they say. was there a weapon found at the nscene? they a talking about that either. neighbored say the man who lives here is a senior citizen who is occasially visited by some of his relatives. agnes gonzales lives close by and he was out talking tone hbors this morning. >> he asked if we had seen anything unusual in the pasus anything l, and i said i haven't seen anything. >> reporter: nothing? >> no. >> reporter: were you surprises this happened here on your block? >> yes, yes, very surprised. >> reporter: did you know the man who lives in the house? >> like i know there was an old man. i used to see him around but we never really talked to him. y >> reporter: trs ago this house was the scene of another sincident. shfired, police converged,

looking for the relative of the man who lived here. they treat it had like a barricade. it went on for some time and they busted out the front door, but in the end no oneound. or what happened here today, police say they are waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause and manner of death. after that maybe more police work. leon, back to you. >> thank you so much. pat collins reporting live. check out this new video. this is just coming into into our newsroom. a building crumbli to the ground in miami. construction crews were there demolishing this 12-story condo building piece by piece whent suddenly completely collapsed. all the construction workers were off site. lice are searching the area with dogs to make sure no one is trped inside.

olympic trampionn r lochte is suspended from swimming for 1 months saying he broke a role. >> he posecd a photoving an iv infusion, mostly vamins and took the infusion to help ward off the sickness his wife and son were battling. the problem is it's not what he took but how he took it. it was larger than what the guidelines admit and he says he accepts the >>punishment. still will train every day, and i have goals that i want to accomplish in 2020, and if anything this will make me more hungry, and i'llthefinitely be e in 2020. >> when he says 2020, lochte means the next olympic summer games. tomorrow marks two years until

tokyo 2020. lochte already has 12 olympic medals. as the live , scott macfarlane, wendy, back to you. >> thanks, scott. breaking right paul manafort's trial is going to be delayed for the week. the judge has pushed it back to july 31st because lawyers say they received more than 100,000 in the new documents past few weeks, and they neede more t to get ready. manafop' is president trs former campaignanager. he's accused of hiding $30 million that he earned while he was representing ukraine and its president. coming up, we continue our team coverage of this week's rain. >> several inches expected through wednesday, that will come on top of what's already falling here. >> we're in northern virginia next keeping our eyes on thes skie and the already soaked roads because of the risk of aash flooding which is quite high. our first look at the doomed duck boat removed from

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we're watching our storm right nowar closely because it's a weather alert day, and our region is under a ash flood watch until wednesday morning. storm team 4 has the details on that comingsep in a nd. >> first, adam tuss continues our coverthe in norn have a where the rain is causing a lot of problem spots on the road. adam?

>> yeah. take asc look. es like this are playing out all across northern virginia right here on georgetown pike in great falls. this tree recently just came down right here on thisin l. it's blocking a lane of traffic, and can you see the fairfax county police doing what the drivers makeure to be safe. you can see another tree recently cwne do and this is what you're deal with as the i ground super saturated. we shot some video today of rivers and streams that had beew g at a pretty rapid pace, an all the raven has really done a numbek take a l this picture tweeted out by fairfax county police of a car submerged in water. that driver had to be rescued and is okay, but this is what we're talking about. when we're dealing with situations. the rains comet in f and furious. heard us talk about all safe in these situations, and you can really get yourself i danger if you're not being safe. make sure you're being as safe as possible. headlights on.

windshield wipers coming out hee, and mor coming up on news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00. back t>>you. hese rains also brought sporadic high winds, and a lot of eeach-goers have to the beach, see loose umbrellas blowing loose on the sand. a woman was impaled by an umbrella. witnesses say a gust of wind carried the 46-year-old woman ande're learning to see how she's doing. last week a beach umbrellad pier the ankle of a woman at the jersey shore a not the first time it happened at ocean city. five or six years ago it happened there. >> a crazy weather system has come through. we'll have brilliant sunshine for l're while y driving for like a mile and then you go into what looks like a hurricane, ahen it's brilliant sunshine ten minutes later. >> any time we get the sunshine, aiding the formation of these storms, and youe get the sunsh that helps with the instability, and you get more and more rain

coming out of the storms. we've seen so much over the past week. it's really quite incredible the amount of rain that we've seen. i mean, saturda alone four inches of rain and last tuesday if you remember, just about a week ago, w saw close to 3 inches in an out there right near we're dealing with clouds around the d.c. metro area. you can see low clouds, and there are some blue skies through there. will 4 degrees and winds out of the sou at 17 miles per hour. we've seen the winds gusting over 20 miles per hour for the lastouple of days and down towards the beaches, the same thing. a very windy week out ath the bend that's exactly what we're seeing. the radar right now and not raining this is going to be the case. we'll see scattered showers all t'day and notice w going on here. we've got a line that's starting coming, and this line is right in towards fairfax county. woodbridge towards quantico and fredericksburg, this is moving towards fairfax county. let's say over towards falls

church or tyson's rner, you'll be getting in on this. it will become very heavy at times watch out for flooded streets. tell you all the time, turn around. don't drown. we saw numerous water rescues over the weekend. don't want to seeny more. flash flood watch at 2:00 a.m. on wednesday and that's for the entire area because of all the rainnd we've seen look at this. 8.5 inches. nearly 8.5 ihes so far in the last week. that's an incredible amount of rain, but we're expecting another two to possibly as much as five inches or more of rain through the day on wednesday and we think the heaviesnin rg. tomorr wow, however, seeing tha rain. this is why. this is what's happening here. we've got a huge trough and area of low pressure. you can actually see a little bit of a spin here in the utheast. that is bringing in all of this moisture. i tracked it back towards the bahamas. it's coming right out of the bahamas and right to the carolinas and into our area and heading all the way up into canada.h that's how mf the eastern part of the country is seeing

lois incredible amount of rain. big-timeing today into parts of pennsylvania. we saw it here over the weekend and don't want to see it again. however, we're forecasting thep ntial, the good potential for some flooding over the next couple of daysseo pl be careful. 7:00, rain around the d.c. metro area. i think it will be a really wet region.around our tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m., notice more scattered showers around. someeavy at times and then tomorrow afternoon, here's noon. more scattered showers around. yes, take the big umbrellas and tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening i thi we uld see some of the heaviest rain and we could see mored intoing during the day. f please watch o that. as far as rainfall totals are concerned, 3.1 inches possible in d.c. and some areas even more. some areas will get totals that look just like this. upwards of 3 inches, someas a could get 5. weather alert on thursday,8 and 89 on third. friday we're break out of the w pattern andll have more on the flood potential coming up at

4:45. >>oohat should be and steamy with all the moisture. >> you know it. >> well, it may be worth your effort to get out there a t dodg raindrops if you're feeling lucky, because you might want to go out and buy a lottery ticket sometime today or tomorrow. >> there's 512 million reasons to do that. the jackpot went up today because everyone thought they were going to win a couple of days ago, remember that? the next drawing i tomorrow night. the cash payout, let's just fantasize. million. but the odds of winning are 1 in 302 million. it's that 2 that's going to kill us. >> that's all? >> that's the differce-maker. >> 302 milli! there's a lot less to do on the weekend w it rains. >> but maybe you went to the movies over the last couple of days. well, we're going to tell you about the wurprisingther at this weekend's box office and here's the hint. >> it was not "ma wa mia!" >>orking from you, the warning

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next few days. there's a high threat for flooding around our region tonight. doug is back here minutes with another check on the rain. >> big shock at the box office this weekend. >> two sequels went head-to-head but the winner turned out to be a little surprise. >> to that in just a minute. we'll britt in svans from "access." you caught up with will smith. what the is he up tthese days? >> you know, i was kicking it with the family, leon. when you're kicking it with the fami on the amalfi coast, italy vacation, you know, it's time >> rub it in. go ahead, rub it in. >> we were just there last week industry w just watching the rest of the world on his instagram. the s apparently where all celebrities are going. he and his family no different. posted this veo of his familyub sc diving and called this activity a major check off his bucketing list and then he shared this >> right now. >> no instagram. >> get me followers.

>> willow. willow! >> willow! peorm for my followers. ♪ there you go, thank you. >> willow! >> that's like my family. i was going to say, he makes it -- it's like everyone's family is the rsame,ht? we were talking -- i heard you talk about the box office this imweekend. it's for the "access" box office, a photo finish athe movie theaters. denzel washington and his first sequel ever "equaliz 2" beat ut the sequel everyone assumed would be first. "mamma mia!" and here with the numbers 35.8 for "equalizer" and 34.3 million for peopleia. bolt films did great and both sequels openeha biggertheir originals which doesn't often happen. >> interesting, though i must

say i'm not surprised because the woman i'm related to by marriage saw the trailers and said the "mamma mia!" movie whether it's that one or a movie just like that is getting made every single iear sos not that big of a surprise. >>re leon,ou burying the lead? >> love it. >> so you know. >> i'm cling you after this. >> don't call me. call her. all right. man. thanks, scott. take care, buddy. >> good good to see you. >> see you in a bit. >>ru meeting tome will never happen for most of us. >> i met him. >> but forionossie and tom we'l you his interact at last night's red carpet career. red carpet career. >> and crews areaving

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well, the radar, this is our world,folks, forhis week. it's got rain written all over it. >> that's right. stor team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer is back with what to expect for the rest of the evening. doug in >> seeing the rain continue across parts of the area. the good news right here now anyway, we're not seeing widespread heavy, heavy infall. seep a couple of heavier downpours throughout the rest of the afternoon. tmost of this on moderate side. however, we do have a couple of areas in through parts of fairfax county and down around

king george county and we're locking at areas ofeavier rain and one coming over the city of fairfax isyear. s coming right through burke and clifton and this area of heavy rain will come through the city of fairfax in the next half hour to an hour. another pretty heavy shower across i'd 95. this is goingight case over the next couple of days, especially into the day today and tomorrow.hi tomorrow we we could see widespread areas of heavy rain. that's why we have the flash flood watch in effect for the entire area, and that fla flood watch is into effect tomorrow and tomorrow night and 2:00 a on wednesday evening and even wednesday we're expecting heavier rain. and say w you all that who we think gets the best chance for rain. turn around, don't drown. seen way too many water rescues the last couple of diss. >> good a there. thank you, doug. >> all that rain that we've had here is taking a serious toll on area roads. a huge snekhole o up in gaithersburg.

aimee cho is livek with a l at what it means for drivers in the area there. this is one of two huge sinkholes in montgomery county. ll us about it. y. >> leon and wendy, i want to get a sense of how massive this sinkhole is. this is on game preserve road near 355. crews are hard at work trying to pour concrete and fill this thing in. they are hoping to g havee preserve road reopened by friday ewd the rain in the forecast over the next f days could make filling that inkhole in a little tough. this isn't the only sinkhole that we've seen in montgomery county. another one opened up yesterday just a few miles from here. hurleys on father boulevard near winfield drive in germantown and crews hard at work as well o and that filled in pretty nicely. crews are hoping to have that ed reopy friday as well. as you can see, that concrete is being poured i neighbors around there tell us they are surprised to see two sinkholes opened so close to home.

>> when you so something like that on the news, you can't think you have it near my house but it does. >>eporter: even thoughhe roads around here are closed, they have still seen some people driving arod those closure signs and coming down this road anyway. obviously vy dangerous to do so. first responders say if you see a road closure sign you should listen to it. live in gaithersburg. aimeecho,ews 4. >> a news 4 consumer investigion finds criminal hijacking your cell phone to commit crimes. >> and your partner in crime jim handley is in the newsroom with a look at what's coming up at 5:00. a reporter: hey, guys frightening fascinating story that everybody with a cell phone wants to hear. r consumer reporter susan hogan says your phone could be trying to crack someone else's password, steal gift numbers and drive up concert ticket prices. we are going to show you how

this works and stop the criminals. also new at 5:00 tonight, d.c.'s most expensive cocktail. it's going to set you back nearly $170 bucks, andt there's drop of liquor in it. the. >> i think we call that a mocktail, and we're tracking this record-breaking rain out there. doug andl amelia w have you covered out there. those stories and a good deal more wn we join you at 5:00. >> i hope you drink that cocktail out of a jimmy chu shoe. >> yeah. icey. >> yeah. >> i think so. >> something makes me think no. >> all right. we're working for you with a utwarning from doctors abo chemicals that may be in a lot of your child's foods. of the american academy of pediatrics says that chemicals and foodolors, preservatives and packaging may interfere with growth and development in children. in anrtle in the journal ediatrics" the group says the parents should prioritize fresh

and frozen pduce and they processed voiding meat and using glass or stainless steelontainers and not use plastic. >> a d.c. man got a nice weekend.this ♪ >> don't you love it when actor and musician kevin bacon shows at a d.c. cafe and starts singing and playing guitar? >> and take look tonight on into tomorrow morning. some wet roads out there for all the co buters, but tomorrow afternoon and evening we're looking at some widespread and heaviermi rainfall. up, doug and i will have the latest on how much more rain we'll see and wt kind of flooding impacts that will have on the area. >> i'm tockyly mcf with your celebrity 60. first, noted cat lover taylor swift is taking her feline affection to the next level starring in an adaptation of

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th we's a flash floodch through early wednesday as you can just imagine. our team coverage of ts soggy end of july continues in a couple of minutes. meantime, check this out. a big crowd showing up for a big star at the made in d.c. shop in dupont circle. news 4's derrick ward shows us an impromptu jam segment that broke out with this a-lister. >> you may have heard wendall's beats around dupont circle and has become somewhat of a virtuoso. he fell on hard times and became but this shelter became a salvation. >> i got myself >> reporter: but he knew something was up this time. maybe the tour bus that build up outside was a giveaway. indeed this, pop-up conrt was different of who popped in, evin bacon and the bacon brother bands. >> decided we would just swing

by and see if maybe he would let in with him. >> reporter: wendall is a fan so, of course, the jam session was on. ♪ cut me loose >> reporter: they heard about pathways tohousing, and since they are in town for some local gigs, this just t hadhappen. >> the great thing about music is that you can make it with almost nothing. >> reporter: and the great thing about getting someoneo a place call home. >> if they can start doing other things like finding a job, reconnecting the >> and can wendall see this as just the next step on a path that only lead up from here? >> you only got one life. >> thank you, everybody. that was lot of fun. >> reporter: in dupont circle, derrick ward, news 4. >> what would b cool is if they put him on one of their record. >> what would be cool if he just swung by here and start singing ld be lobby, that w cool. >> so much for six degrees of separation. >> wow. >> the that was kind of nice. why is this always happening where i'm not?

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four things to know this afternoo howard county is mourning the death of a career fifther. >> 13-year veter nathan flynn died fighting a massive fire on woodscape drive in clarksville, maryland. officials believe lightning started this. it's the f death in the line of duty in the history of the howard county fire department. >> metro riders are working their way around theaciggest

work shut down since safe track now working on t red line between ft. totten and ewoodbridge. rack works are expected to last until labor day. olymp champ rya lochte suspended from swimming for the next 14 months after h was caught receiving an iv infusion of vitamins that was larger than the u.s. anti-doping agency guidelines allow. lochte still t plans swim in the 2020 olympic summer games in tokyo. >> he could probably swim in some lawns here in our area as the wet weather continues and the rain we'vein been s here helped open up this massive sinkhole on father hurley boulevard in togerm. this thing is 20peet dee and has toppled trees all across the area as doug checking out what the latest is on how soggy is this going to be? >> we'll continue to see trees coming down across the area. wind of 20 to 25 miles per hour normally wouldn't do anything.

this muc rainnd soaked grounds, we may see more trees coming down. watch out for that a flooded roads. a lot of treacherous situations out thereto next couple of days because of all the rain that we had and all of the rain thae webout to see. now, we're seeing rain in part of the region. right now low clouds around d.c. current temperature 84 degrees and i do expect rain between now and about 7:00. you can see the rain chance with atures falling into the 70s. here's the current radar. not a lot of rain on this radar, and not a lot of yellows and reds out there, but we're seeing some of the reds up towards the baltimore area and flood warning continues for that region. around the hagerstown w area, saw some that have ali ender into parts of northern virginia, most on the light to moderate side. look at charles county in towards maryland south and east of laplata. tthat's coming up towar fairfax area. look at fairfax. zoom in on fairfax county. right through fairfax and seeing heavy rain and right along 50 and 66 at 123.es that contio move up to the

north this. whole line, however, is moving slowly to the east,ds so h up. if you're in d.c. and head up if you're in bethesda. migh r be seeingn in that area as well. flash flood watch continues until 2:00 a.m. on wednesday. we've seen over 8 inches of rain in the d.c. area and some cations asuch as 10 inches and we're not done yet. amelia is tracking this from the storm center. we've been watching this pattern since last week and we know how much rain we've already seen. we've got a lot more to go. >> absolutely, doug, and we'll o see another 2 5 inches of rain wednesday night byarly friday morning. we'll continue to track the eather and that's the biggest concer pockets of heavy rain at times that will lead to additional flooding concerns,ll espec for the creek, streams and rivers out there, and any roads that are by waterways. s if yot to be cauti know there's heavy rain out there. tuund, don't drown. never drive through a flooded roadway.l weeep a close eye on heavy rape that's leading to more

flooding concerns acros the area. saturday just a nasty day out there and with all the rai on saturday additional rain yesterday and morning, and like doug was even though winds aren't a huge threat, a bit of a breeze could bring additional trees down. watching the potential for gusty winds and hold off until getting the car washed onn thursday w it looks like we dry out. unfortunately, the loudoun county fair getting und way today. not great conditions out there and more rain out at the fair tomorrow and wednesday so you can pick and choose when you go. i would recommend thursday and friday, and that commute, well, we'll continue to deal with wet roads across the area. these are theall totals over the last 48 hours. radar estimated rainfall totals. the brighter colors more rain and the blues will be lowerts rainfall amo and the district 6 inches of rain over the last 48 hoursnd upround annapolis 7 inches and fredericksburg 8 incs andp around frederick over 6 inches of rain. as we continue through the few days, keep the umbrella

handy. i would download the nbc washington app and check it before you head out and make re you're not driving into some heavy rain out there. >> that's the case as we move or through to and wednesday. that's why we have both as weather alert days. been iner wea alert and be in ather alert tomorrow int thursday. thursday and friday heading out to the loudoun county fair, just hot and eumremely. the hot high temperature of 91 on friday and heat index at 96 an 77. it will be extremely soupy right on through the weekend. chance of a shower can't be ruledto the friday late saturday. brown band playing saturday at nats park. interesting to see if we dcan stay into the dry side and head willing into august we stay with a very wet pattern. much more on this. see you next hour at 5:00. hollywood lights in th district. tom cruise in town for his big movie premiere. the a-lister gracing the redor

carpet"mission impossible fallout". >> and the premiere took place last night at the air and space hamuseum ands where tommy mcfly caught up with cruise. >> reporter: that rigre is tom cruise, one of the biggest stars and he's he for the premiere of "mission impossible fallout" and we chatted and some of the stars. >> i did the "top gun" premiereh here and never a school trip here and came here with family when i was a child so this is incredible. i love this museum. ten here manyes. i never tire of it, ever. ♪ >> reporter: hard nin to give away, but were there part of it when you were like let's go harder?o gotack it up a little bit? >> no, we're always go you know. did we go hard enough,ou know. and that's -- that's -- of course, when i broke myle a that was like too hard, you know. >> they tried to ge me down

time of doing stunts and we're shooting other scenes itd laying out like that so we're not piled up too much so i'm notoo takinguch of a beating. >> reporter: how is tom cruise the bona fide action hero and tom cruise the dad? ahow are you the same dad? >> i'm full-onat action. th's my life. it doesn't change. i mean, we never stop. >> reporter: that tom cruise is still at it talking t fan local fans who waited for hours to see him today. "missionpo ible" opens up nationwide of course here in d.c. on the 27th. at the smithsonian air and space. tommy mcfly, nths 4. >> w you're a fan -- he was nice and accessible. he wasn't like giving -- >> wt did you expect? >> some of them give the canned answers that they have been asked the same question a billion times and they have -- that didn't sound like that. >> that sounded>>genuine. sounded nice. >> but then, again, he is an actor. >> a good actor. >> all right. are you ready for som cute?

new video of the seven cheah cuorn just this month at the smithsonian. they are very cute. 2 weeks old. look at those little faces. these are the first babies for aaron enriquo. the litter n is on display. but they are part of the ni smithsons conservation effort, which means they will probably be distributed to and other conservation facilities as they grow up, but they are ours for now, and they are as cute as they can be. they willsix months rip your lungs out. >> that's okay. they are supposed to. well, not supposed to.ey re allowed to be what they are supposed to . >> cheetah is going to cheetah. >> so, this is that horrible story of the unused life jackets hanging from that recovered duck at. >> the boat hoisted from the bottom of that lake today. what wutre learning a what may have gone wrong here. >> and then at 5:00, we have a

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i'm scott macfarlane. leon, back for you. >> thanks, scott. the investigationck into th oat tragedy in branson, missouri continues today asig inveors razed the boat from under 80 feet of water. this com three day after the boat sank in near hurricane windsng kil 17 people. >> reporter: divers back in the water monday inns b, missouri, securing cables to the sunken duck boat before razing it to the surface. the boatg emerg from under 80 feet of murky water. unused life jackets still hanging from the roof. >> the regulations require that personal flow tlagse devices on poured for all pass jerks and the decision to don those pfds is made as an operational decision for the captain on board. >> the wreckage now goes to the ntsb which isnvestigating thursday's sinking that killed 17 ngpeople, inclu nine

minutes of tia coleman's family. i don't know how i'm going to do it. her husband and three children among the dead. >> since i've had a home it's always been filled. it's always been filled with little feet and laughter. >> reporter: officials say wind conditions thursday evening were near hurricane strength wsh wa as high at 6 feet. the tour boatompany has voluntarily suspended operations during the investigation. meanwhile, a pvate inspector has come forward saying he warned the company about a potentially dangerous design flaw last summer. >> since my inspection, i've convinced my family not to ride the ducks. >> reporter: a search for answer amid heartbreak in the heartland. >> now at 5:00, another weather alert. >> we've had record rain, and it's far from over. >> amelia andry in the storm team tracking storm team 4 radar. and plus, when will we finally get some relief? >> last act of heroism.

>> the firefighter is a 13-year veteran. s is a sad and tragic day for howard county. >> a firefighter, a father of three and how the communities are remembering a life well lived. >> right now at 5, we have this record-breaking rain. you can see it all over the t storm 4 radar. good afternoon. i'm wendy religioneim >> and i'm j handley. this is a soaking system and it's been with us for a while. a tree here crashed into a home in annendale city earlierayoday and t a look at the damage. good news here. no one was seriouslyrt hu. >> this is not the case in howard county but it was lightning that sparked this fire that kille 1 ayear veteran of the fire department there. >> we're going to have more on this tragedy and the loss and the family that he leaves behind. >> we have team coverage for you to keep you weather ready.

let's begin with some team 4 meteorologist amelia drapernd doug kammerer. >> a lot of rain. >> heavy as it gets going again tomorrow and wednesday. >> and we'll see an additional 2 to 5 inches and here in d.c. we've already seen over 8 inches since last tuesday. >> really incredible. storm team 4 is showing what we've got here. lots of rain in parts of the mid-atlantic and northeast. you see that rain and little area of low pressure back to the northwest and helping to bring that area of rain ourwa this is just light to moderate rainfall. we do have a couple of heavier downpours and seen a few of those up around the baltimore area. hit really hit and hagerstown hit hard, andrt sburg hit hard. right now it's light rain in fairfax county and heavier downpours. thees hea one coming into is south and west of the lapla